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BrandWestern Digital
Item Height
26 millimetres
Item Width10.2 centimetres
Technical Details
- Hard disk drive capacity: 600 GB
- Internal: Y
- Hard disk rotational speed: 10000 RPM
- Hard disk interface: Serial ATA II
- Hard disk size: 8.89 cm (3.5 ")
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WD VelociRaptor hard drive delivers maximum speed and reliability for performance enthusiast systems, workstations, and low-end servers. With a superbly engineered combination of 10,000 rpm spin speed, SATA 6 Gb/s interface and a 32 MB cache, this drive is truly an evolution in performance.
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Western Digital Western Digital VelociRaptor 600GB 35 Internal Hard drive 10 000 RPM SATA 6Gbs SATA 3 WD6000HLHX Components Internal Hard Drives
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
This is a fantastic high performance drive and quite frankly until ssd's come down in price and their lifespan increases I will be sticking with these.
There are three 200GB platters spinning at 10,000rpm with a 32MB cache. Western Digital has used the smaller 2.5in size of drive to reduce overall platter size and the read/write head movement required and thus increase the access speed. The drive itself is slightly taller than a normal 2.5in laptop hard disk though (so you can't fit it into a netbook or typical laptop). Due to the increased heat generated by the 10,000rpm motor, the disk is fitted into a 3.5in heat sink casing to provide sufficient cooling.
The heat sink casing really benefitted from my front intake fans on my Antec 300 reducing its temperature from an idle temp of high 30's to low 30's.
While the VelociRaptor 600GB is a very fast hard disk, and grants obvious performance benefits over other hard disk drives, however don't expect it to match the near-instant responsiveness and feeling of using an SSD as a boot disk. However in comparison to other hard disks such as the WD caviar black I used to have it is about 10% faster in everyday use. They are also a lot quieter than their predecessors and use a newer sata interface to boost speeds.
A Raptor will be my first choice for a while to come yet until SSD's fall in price, increase in capacity and issues such as trim support and longevity are properly resolved.
Western Digital also provide some nice software tools on their website including Acronis which makes replacing a system disk far less painful. You literally use the software to clone your old drive to this one and then change the new drive to your boot drive and your done!
Specifications
* Formatted Capacity: 558.91GB
* Platter Size: 3 x 200GB
* Platter Speed: 10,000rpm
* Cache Size: 32MB
* MTBF:1,400,000 hours
* Warranty: Three years
There are three 200GB platters spinning at 10,000rpm with a 32MB cache. Western Digital has used the smaller 2.5in size of drive to reduce overall platter size and the read/write head movement required and thus increase the access speed. The drive itself is slightly taller than a normal 2.5in laptop hard disk though (so you can't fit it into a netbook or typical laptop). Due to the increased heat generated by the 10,000rpm motor, the disk is fitted into a 3.5in heat sink casing to provide sufficient cooling.
The heat sink casing really benefitted from my front intake fans on my Antec 300 reducing its temperature from an idle temp of high 30's to low 30's.
While the VelociRaptor 600GB is a very fast hard disk, and grants obvious performance benefits over other hard disk drives, however don't expect it to match the near-instant responsiveness and feeling of using an SSD as a boot disk. However in comparison to other hard disks such as the WD caviar black I used to have it is about 10% faster in everyday use. They are also a lot quieter than their predecessors and use a newer sata interface to boost speeds.
A Raptor will be my first choice for a while to come yet until SSD's fall in price, increase in capacity and issues such as trim support and longevity are properly resolved.
Western Digital also provide some nice software tools on their website including Acronis which makes replacing a system disk far less painful. You literally use the software to clone your old drive to this one and then change the new drive to your boot drive and your done!
Specifications
* Formatted Capacity: 558.91GB
* Platter Size: 3 x 200GB
* Platter Speed: 10,000rpm
* Cache Size: 32MB
* MTBF:1,400,000 hours
* Warranty: Three years
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
I bought one of these new SATA3 drives to replace my ageing 7200rpm boot drive for my Apple MacPro - fitting was as simple as usual and now apps and docs load way quicker. Overall it does make a noticeable difference to responsiveness. Be warned though I think it is only backwardly compatible with SATA2 and not bog standard SATA. I tried using it in my desktop USB drive station and it got totally ignored.
Of course SATA3 won't run as fast as spec in my mac as 3Gbs is my max but I guess I can whip this puppy out when I upgrade in the future. of course by then we will all want thunderbird interfaced drives and SATA will be a dead standard :) Until then this is the meanest drive on the block - go get one!
Of course SATA3 won't run as fast as spec in my mac as 3Gbs is my max but I guess I can whip this puppy out when I upgrade in the future. of course by then we will all want thunderbird interfaced drives and SATA will be a dead standard :) Until then this is the meanest drive on the block - go get one!
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Very Well pleased. This unit is a 2.5 Hard drive in a 3.5 Mount. Can do what it says.
Very Well pleased. This unit is a 2.5 Hard drive in a 3.5 Mount. Can do what it says.
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Pointless Review
Just to comment on Bronski's review. Absolutely pointless. Why on earth wouldn't you at least try the drive, instead of just sending it back without testing. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Mr Jim Wilde
WD VelociRaptor 600GB
Had waited for ages for the price of this drive to drop to £155 in line with ebuyer, when it did, I snapped one up due to the fact I perfer amazon to ebuyer. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Bronski
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