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Western Digital created a drive capable of 10,000 RPM for fast data access. No other hard disk company has created an enthusiast hard disk at the same speed for the consumer market.

The VelociRaptor pictured above has twice the capacity of the older Rapter hard disk which currently have 150Gib. The new hard disk has shrunk to 2.5″ so how will the hardisk fit into the current 3.5″ drive bays? Well Western Digital have decided to enclose the hard disk within an IcePack. The Icepack shown in the picture has a built in heat sink to increase the size to the current standard drive bay dimension.

The Rapter drive still uses the 10,00 RPM but uses SATA II which increases the sata data transfer to 3 Gb/s. The drive also delivers 16Mb Cache Memory. As mentioned before the heat sink built into the drive will help tremendously to increase performance and help increase heat transfer . The drive has RAFF a new implementation to Western Digital products and a life expectancy of 1.4 million hours.

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