During January this year appeared rumors about the intentions of western digital company to release the new generation of velociRaptor HDD, which combines the rotation speed 10 000 rp/min and compact form factor 2.5 inches.
According to the official documents on velociRaptor VR200M , producer was able to increase the writing density to 300 Gb by one magnetic plate, which allow to release model with 600 Gb volume. The information transmission speed grew from 126 to 145 mb/s , the buffer volume was increased from 16 to 32 mb., as change to SATA-300 interface arrived SATA-600. WD company report that the noise was also reduced by 1 dB.
The most interesting, that the model velociRaptor with 600 Gb volume can be already purchased at the Internet- auction of eBay for $315.
The characteristics of HDD with 150, 300 and 450 Gb volume are given in the table below:
Many Internet- stores already introduced given HDD in their Price- list. Related Products :
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