Western Digital Corp. (WDC), announced that they had distributed their latest hard drive series namely WD VelociRaptor, 450GB and 600GB capacities.Hard disk drives in this series is a range of 2.5-inch SATA internal hard drive - packed with the mounting frame until ready to be installed on a server or desktop computer case - with the disk rotational speed up to 10 thousand RPM.
If the first high-speed hard drive capacity to 300GB only, we now deliver up to 450 and 600GB capacities, "said Patrick Lo, Regional Product Marketing Manager, Enterprise Business Unit, in Jakarta, Tuesday, May 11, 2010.
This hard drive, Lo says, suitable for use by servers, PC's performance classes that require high performance and large capacities. The mounting frame, in addition useful to facilitate the installation of the casing, serves as the temperature Conditioning.
Besides increasing capacity, Western Digital also redouble their VelociRaptor hard drive cache memory from 16MB to 32MB. In addition, support SATA 2 capable of transferring data at speeds up to 3Gb per second was also raised to SATA 3 that has a maximum transfer speed of up to 6GB per second.
"VelociRaptor has a lifetime of up to 1.4 million hours. If used 24-hour non-stop, every day of the week, then the disk is able to survive up to 162 years, "Lo claims.
To provide convenience for users, Western Digital provides warranty for three years. "The first year warranty is given in the form of one to one replacement, as for the next two-year service warranty," said Karim Harianto, Sales Manager for Western Digital Indonesia, on the same occasion.
VelociRaptor hard drive specifications, see above
