New Western Digital 2.5-inch, Hard Drives Spin at 10,000 RPM
WD announced today the WD VelociRaptor 10,000 RPM enterprise SATA hard drives in an enterprise-class 2.5-inch form factor for blade servers and 1U and 2U rack servers.
The newest WD VelociRaptor hard drive is built for business-critical applications with enterprise-class mechanics and packs up to 300 GB of capacity into the enterprise small form factor bays, while consuming 35 percent less power than the previous-generation WD Raptor drive. The drive is also rated at 1.4 million hours MTBF.
Features of the new WD VelociRaptor hard drives include a speed of 10,000 RPM, SATA 3 Gb/s interface and a 16 MB of cache. The Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF) technology optimizes performance when the drives are used in vibration-prone, multi-drive chassis while the NoTouch ramp load technology does not allow the recording head never touch the disk media.
WD VelociRaptor 2.5-inch hard drives (model WD3000BLFS) is under evaluation with OEM customers and will be available through select commercial distributors by the end of the month.
The newest WD VelociRaptor hard drive is built for business-critical applications with enterprise-class mechanics and packs up to 300 GB of capacity into the enterprise small form factor bays, while consuming 35 percent less power than the previous-generation WD Raptor drive. The drive is also rated at 1.4 million hours MTBF.
Features of the new WD VelociRaptor hard drives include a speed of 10,000 RPM, SATA 3 Gb/s interface and a 16 MB of cache. The Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF) technology optimizes performance when the drives are used in vibration-prone, multi-drive chassis while the NoTouch ramp load technology does not allow the recording head never touch the disk media.
WD VelociRaptor 2.5-inch hard drives (model WD3000BLFS) is under evaluation with OEM customers and will be available through select commercial distributors by the end of the month.
