Western Digital Unviels a Beast of a Hard Drive

Western Digital announced on Monday the released of the next generation in its Raptor series of hard drives. The VelociRaptor, a 300 GB, 10,000 RPM, SATA hard drive designed designed with an enterprise-class foundation. This new hard drive is modified specifically for PC and Mac enthusiasts and professional workstations.

The VelociRaptor is a 300 GB storage capacity in a 2.2-inch drive, enclosed in the "IcePack", a 3.5-inch mounting frame with a built-in heat sink. This customization still fits the drive in a standard 3.5-inch system bay and keeps the drive extra cool when installed in a high-performance desktop computer.

In a statement released today, Tom McDorman, vice president and general manager of WD's enterprise business unit said, "Demand for ever-higher PC performance continues to increase and WD is the leader in this category with the WD Raptor. We created WD VelociRaptor hard drives to lead PC enthusiasts into the next era of PC and Mac storage performance and satisfy their insatiable thirst for computing speed." Mr. McDorman went on to say "The new WD VelociRaptor delivers the greatest performance and reliability of all SATA hard drives currently on the market.”

The VelociRaptor is designed for those PC and Mac enthusiasts desiring greater speed in their computers. The new VelociRaptor includes not only the 10,000 RPM hard drive, but also a 16 MB cache and a SATA 3 GB/s interface.

The VelociRaptor will be available in Alienware's high-performance ALX paming systems by the end of April. At launch, Alienware plans on offering 2 300GB WD VelociRaptor hard drives in RAID O configuration on http://www.alienware.com. The VelociRaptor will also be available at certain select distributors as well as at Alienware sometime in mid-May and will retail for about $299.99.

Western Digital Unviels a Beast of a Hard Drive

Western Digital has released its new monster of a hard drive, the VelociRaptor, a 300 GB 10,000 RPM beast.