Our colleagues from PCGamesHardware.de have managed to get their hands on some info on Western Digital's new Raptor. It is 2.5-inch hard drive placed in a 3.5-inch WD IcePAK cooling case.
The VelociRaptor WD3000GLFS, spins at Raptor's standard 10,000RPM and comes with 300GB of capacity with 16MiByte of cache. The drive now supports SATA 3.0 Gbit/s, higher data rate of 120MB/s, lower read seek time at 4.2ms and it has lowered write seek time to 4.7ms.
The new VelociRaptor is a two-platter, four-head 2.5-inch hard drive placed in a WD IcePak cooling enclosure which should reduce the temperature of this 2.5-inch speeding dinosaur by about 7 °C. The MTBF (Mean time between failures) is also improved to 1.4M hours. As twith he previous generation of Raptors, this one will also come with a 5-year warranty.
Of course, when it comes out, it will be faster than any other drive on the market.
You can find more details and pictures here.
The VelociRaptor, 2.5" HDD in a 3.5" housing
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