WD speeds up 10,000 RPM SATA Velociraptor
21 Apr 2008 | 14:11 BST
Fast, fin, heat sunk
WD SAID it has speeded up its line of 10,000 RPM SATA Raptor series of drives by so much they now need a heatsink to cool them down.
Inevitably, WD called the drive the Velociraptor. It says the new generation WD3000GLFS, at 300GB, is twice as big and 35 per cent faster than its previous top 2.5 incher and quicker than any other drive out there.
The 2.5-inch Velociraptor sits in a 3.5-inch mount to incorporate the built-in heat sink, which sort of makes its 2.5-inch format a bit of a misnomer if you ask us.
The 10,000 RPM drives sport an SATA 3Gb/s interface a 16MB cache and, according to WD, can clock up 1.4 million hours of mean time between failures.
The drives are for sale through Alienware now and through WD and its channel from mid May.
It costs $299 in the States and rather more than that over here.
There's more exciting blurb on the company's web site here. µ
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