Tuesday, April 22, 2008

300GB 10000K Western Digital VelociRaptor - AWESOME!

I love high speed HDDs. My gaming rig at home has a 74GB raptor for XP, with a 500GB for storage. It is actually a really noisy drive and 3m away from my bed I can hear it running (torrent downloading at night).

My raptor is now outclassed by some high capacity 7200rpm HDDs which offer way more bang for the buck. If I was to do a computer now, I would probably just use a 1TB HDD for both OS and storage. But this new HDD by Western Digital is one impressive HDD, with a 35% performance increase over my raptor.

This HDD also has a mean time before failure (MTBF) of 1.4million hours, making it impressively long lasting. This is going to be the HDD of choice for speed freaks. I don't need to upgrade my HDD, but those looking to build a new rig could do a lot worse than two of these drives in Raid 0.

Anyone planning on buying this drive?

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Central Coast, NSW, Australia
I'm a normal guy with a passion for technology.