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Just when it was looking like actual spinning metal disks were going to be crushed by SSDs in performance as well as quiet, Western Digital has fired a new shot in the storage wars. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the Western Digital Velociraptor:
This drive is only 35-50% faster than its predecessor, the Raptor-X, with twice the capacity; amazingly enough, it's also a 2.5" drive rather than a 3.5", and it comes with a custom heatsink mount called IcePak for use in standard drive bays (which means it can fit into a notebook). It does all this without even being a hybrid drive - no concessions to SSD technology at all. Perhaps hard disks will be with us for another year after all.
http://www.storagereview.com/WD3000BLFS.sr
This drive is only 35-50% faster than its predecessor, the Raptor-X, with twice the capacity; amazingly enough, it's also a 2.5" drive rather than a 3.5", and it comes with a custom heatsink mount called IcePak for use in standard drive bays (which means it can fit into a notebook). It does all this without even being a hybrid drive - no concessions to SSD technology at all. Perhaps hard disks will be with us for another year after all.
http://www.storagereview.com/WD3000BLFS.sr
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