WD VelociRaptor 600GB HDD wins Legit Reviews Editors Choice Award
06 April 2010 Source: www.legitreviews.com
Western Digital (WD) today announced its first new enthusiast-oriented VelociRaptor hard drive (HDD) in nearly two years with the launch of the 450GB and 600GB capacity drives this morning. These new drives not only double the capacity available for this 10,000 RPM enterprise storage drives, but they also introduce support of the SATA 6Gbps interface and increase the drives' cache from 16MB to 32MB!
Legit Reviews have the WD VelociRaptor 600GB (WD6000HLHX) IcePack Hard Drive and they took an in-depth look at the drive's features and the performance of the drive compared to the previous generation VelociRaptor HDD and other popular SSDs.
WD has doubled the capacity of this 10,000 RPM drive series and did manage to boost performance as advertised. In fact, we noticed more than a 15% performance increase in some benchmarks, which was great to see...
...It was also interesting to see how large the performance gap has come between hard drives and solid-state drives. The VelociRaptor series is an enthusiast class product and is ideal for those PC users who don't want to jump into the SSD market right now. The new 450GB and 600GB VelociRaptors would also make for great secondary storage drives to those that have an SSD as their primary storage drive....
...The capacity has doubled, the performance has increased and the price per GB has decreased by nearly 18 percent! If you are looking to buy a hard drive and want a SATA 6Gbps drive with performance as a key feature then be sure to give the new 450GB and 600GB VelociRaptors a really good look!
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