Tuesday, April 22, 2008

The (new) Fastest Hard Drive Ever

"It's here! Western Digital's follow-up to its speedy Raptor drives doesn't disappoint. The Velociraptor achieves its new footholds of speed and storage as a result of its reduced, 2.5-inch size. The two-platter Velociraptor runs with the same cache as its predecessors, 16MB. Although the Velociraptor's drive's interface takes a much-needed upgrade from SATA 1.5 Gb/s to 3 Gb/s. In real-world testing, the drive we checked out was 59 percent faster than a Raptor X and 18 percent faster than Samsung's HD103UJ."

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