Western Digital VelociRaptor WD6000HLHX
The WD6000HLHX is the latest iteration of Western Digital's 10,000rpm Serial ATA drive. The drive was originally designed for enterprise use
You can have the WD6000HLHX with either 450GB or 600GB of capacity
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Key Specs
Cache: 32MB
Capacity: 600GB
Data transfer rate: 136.2MB/sec average
Form factor: 3.5-inch
Interface: Serial ATA
Our WD6000HLHX drive is the latest update and brings the maximum capacity up to 600GB. (Its predecessor topped out at 300GB.)
Retailing for US $329 or $0.55 per gigabyte the VelociRaptor is an expensive buy. WD's own 7200rpm 1TB Black Edition drive retails for just $0.16 per gigabyte. If you want the new VelociRaptor and can't afford the 600GB variant's sticker price however, you can opt for the less expensive 450GB, which retails for $299 or $0.66 per gigabyte. That said the 600GB drive gives you more value-for-money.
As before the VelociRaptor uses a 10,000rpm spindle motor and to ensure smooth data flow, it is equipped with 32MB of buffer memory. This drive also uses the new 6Gb/sec Serial ATA interface though this is largely overkill in a single drive scenario.If you intend to run a RAID array however this will reduce bottlenecks.
Our 600GB VelociRaptor managed an average read speed of 136.2MB/sec in our HDTach 3 benchmark. The 300GB VelociRaptor managed a speed of 110MB/sec by comparison. The drive also managed a random access speed of 7.0ms, 0.1ms quicker than its counterpart. Comparing the drive to entry-level SSDs, it is almost as quick as these drives though the SSDs feel more responsive because of their much lower random access performance.
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