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WD unveils 'fastest in the world' hard drive

Western Digital (WD) yesterday (April 21) introduced a new 'super speed' hard drive market. The manufacturer claims it is the fastest SATA hard drive in the world today.

The VelociRaptor WD3000GLFS hard drive can store about 300GB of data - twice as much as the previous Raptor X product line. However, WD's goal in recent times is not the storage capacity but the speed of the hard drive to target consumers who are gamers and high-end professionals that require data access speed. must be fast.

WD claims that while VelociRaptor is still only equipped with 16MB of cache and has a rotation speed of 10,000 revolutions per minute like Raptor X, the speed of data access and transmission is 35% higher than 'brother'. The speed of recording and searching the average data of the VelociRaptor hard drive is about 4.7 seconds and the average reading speed is 4.2 seconds.

WD unveils 'fastest in the world' hard drive Picture 1 VelociRaptor is designed to include two layers of 150GB 2.5-inch hard disks packed in 3.5-inch IcePack frame. Integrated in the shell is aluminum heat dissipation technology that minimizes the need for additional cooling accessories. This solution has partly helped to increase the average usage time of VelociRaptor to 1.4 million hours. Hard drive using SATA connection interface reaches 3Gbps speed.

Some other features of this hard drive include integrated Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF), the ability to move the reader off the hard disk surface when the drive does not work to avoid the risk of data corruption .

VelociRaptor will be available in the market in May next with a selling price of 300 USD.

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