VelociRaptor drives now for enterprise use

BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of PropagandaOKC Icrontian
edited July 2008 in Science & Tech
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Western Digital

Western Digital announced today they'll be offering the 10,000rpm VelociRaptor 2.5" hard drives for enterprise class 1U and 2U servers. The new drives will be available in capacities up to 300GB with 16MB caches and will use 35 percent less power than the previous generation Raptor drives. They're said to have the highest reliability rating of any enterprise SATA drive at 1.4 million hours MTBF.

Currently, WD says the drives are under evaluation by OEMs, but we should expect to see them available at retailers at the end of the month for an undisclosed price.
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