Western Digital VelociRaptor: High-performance hard drive has 10,000-rpm spin rate

The VelociRaptor SATA hard drive has twice the capacity, better performance, and higher overall speed than the vendor’s Raptor hard-drive series. The drive uses 300 Gbytes of high-performance storage with a 10-000-rpm spin rate. The device includes a 2.5-in. HDA (head-disk assembly) but comes inside the vendor’s IcePack, allowing the device to fit into 3.5-in. frames and maintaining proper cooling at maximum and sustained performances. Available in Alienware’s high-performance ALX gaming desktop, the VelociRaptor WD3000GLFS costs $299.99.

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