WD VELOCIRAPTOR 450GB & 600GB HARD DRIVES AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER

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WD's latest VelociRaptor is now faster than ever and offers double the capacity. For those looking for the perfect mix of storage and performance these would be great with an SSD.:)



Western Digital VelociRaptor 450GB 10000RPM SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (WD4500HLHX) @ £210.99 inc VAT

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WD VelociRaptor hard drives offer twice the capacity of the previous generation while delivering higher performance and cool quiet operation for gaming, workstations, and low-end servers. With a superbly engineered combination of 10,000 RPM spin speed, SATA 6Gb/s interface and a 32MB cache, these drives are truly an evolution in performance. The IcePack mounting frame encloses the 2.5" WD VelociRaptor in a backplane-ready 3.5" enterprise-class mounting frame with a built-in heatsink that keeps this powerful little drive extra cool when installed in high-performance desktop chassis.

- Capacity: 450GB
- Cache: 32MB
- Interface: SATA 6Gb/s
- Spin Speed: 10000RPM
- Seek Time: 3.6ms
- Warranty: 5 Years

Only £210.99 inc VAT.

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Western Digital VelociRaptor 600GB 10000RPM SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (WD6000HLHX) @ £239.99 inc VAT

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WD VelociRaptor hard drives offer twice the capacity of the previous generation while delivering higher performance and cool quiet operation for gaming, workstations, and low-end servers. With a superbly engineered combination of 10,000 RPM spin speed, SATA 6Gb/s interface and a 32MB cache, these drives are truly an evolution in performance. The IcePack mounting frame encloses the 2.5" WD VelociRaptor in a backplane-ready 3.5" enterprise-class mounting frame with a built-in heatsink that keeps this powerful little drive extra cool when installed in high-performance desktop chassis.

- Capacity: 600GB
- Cache: 32MB
- Interface: SATA 6Gb/s
- Spin Speed: 10000RPM
- Seek Time: 3.6ms
- Warranty: 5 Years

Only £239.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW
 
I want one,

I have 3 of the smaller ones 1 x 150GB and 2 x 74Gb and they are great,

These will be even faster with my sata 6gb card (U3S6)on my Maximus Formula 3
 
No they won't. The motor speed of the velociraptors doesn't even saturate SATA3 for sustained transfer rates. The fastest SSD's hardly do. So there is definitely no way these drives can even come close to taking advantage of SATA6. SATA6 on mechanicals is a waste.
 
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delpy8 said:
These will be even faster with my sata 6gb card (U3S6)on my Maximus Formula 3
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i'm afraid they won't be any faster using sata 6gb i'm afraid.

from anandtech review- "The drive supports 6Gbps SATA, however you see no performance benefit from it (in fact, in many cases it's actually slower than 3Gbps SATA if you've got a good integrated SATA controller)."

full review here - http://www.anandtech.com/show/3636/...elociraptor-vr200m-10k-rpm-at-450gb-and-600gb

they are back to being the fastest mechanical drive again though which the old ones were not any more.
 
Too little too late ??

Although these new raptors are no doubt very good hard drives. I suspect they are really living on borrowed time.

For a start the drives do not need SATA 3 (with a max of 160MB/s read and write - thats being generous) they do not even get close to maxing out SATA 2 !). Having owned quite a few of the "older generation" of Raptors they really are great mechanical drives, however I can't help feeling you would be better off with 4 samsung F3's in raid 0 than a single 600GB Raptor as you would have much higher sustained transfer speed and over 6 times the capacity, the downsides to this would be sightly higher seek times (although if you were bothered about this you would have a SSD for small file sizes), and extra space, power, connection requirements etc.

Tomshardware review - http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/wd6000hlhx-velociraptor-600gb,review-31853.html

Personally I'll stick with my SSD for my OS, current/work files and use cheaper large capacity drives for storage. I think the new raptors have missed the boat due to SATA III and decent SSD's which actually need SATA III becomming available.
 
still, they would be nice for anyone with a new build
SSD - OS Boot drive
Vel Rap - Games Drive
Anyother - Bulk data
 
Well it's good to see the competition from SSD seems to have made a difference to VRs prices - I doubt it's all due to improved technology/manufacturing.

However I do think these are just too late into the market now.
 
mast3r said:
still, they would be nice for anyone with a new build
SSD - OS Boot drive
Vel Rap - Games Drive
Anyother - Bulk data
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That is my thought. SSD cannot offer anywhere near the capacity of these new drives for the price point. If I actually had a normal PC, I'd have an SSD for Windows, Veloci for programs and use my Synology for file storage with a 2TB in.
 
I have the 300Gb raptor, and went back to a normal 1tb Fwhatever drive and found it slower. I have been tempted by SSD, but the low capacities/high price really put me off. I cannot be bothered to split games between drives, programs between drives, I like it to just work without fiddling. I used to enjoy that too . . . .

SATA3 is the latest in buzz words. I suspect it costs pretty much the same to change it from sata2.

I wouldn't say these are too late, but this will probably be one of the last versions of the mechanical Raptors!!
 
PhillyDee said:
SATA3 is the latest in buzz words. I suspect it costs pretty much the same to change it from sata2.
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Only problem with SATA3 is that Intel's controllers are so good that unless you have a drive that can benefit from the extra speed of SATA3 you can end up with a slower drive using the SATA3 controller.

I'm guessing this won't be the case when Intel finally adopt SATA3 for their chipsets.
 
if only the 450gb was around the 180 mark then this would a very tempting drive, but at that price id rather buy the kingston 64gb v+ with a samsung 1tb f3 for storage ....
 
I think most people would have missed the point of these. They're not meant to compete with SSD's. Most people have an SSD and conventional HDD in their main rig? Take a OCZ vertex SSD and a Samsung F3 1TB. These are simply meant to replace the conventional HDD surely? So people have faster data drives.

That was my take on it, I may be wrong.
 
aaron333 said:
I think most people would have missed the point of these. They're not meant to compete with SSD's. Most people have an SSD and conventional HDD in their main rig? Take a OCZ vertex SSD and a Samsung F3 1TB. These are simply meant to replace the conventional HDD surely? So people have faster data drives.

That was my take on it, I may be wrong.
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Fair point I suppose.
 
aaron333 said:
I think most people would have missed the point of these. They're not meant to compete with SSD's. Most people have an SSD and conventional HDD in their main rig? Take a OCZ vertex SSD and a Samsung F3 1TB. These are simply meant to replace the conventional HDD surely? So people have faster data drives.

That was my take on it, I may be wrong.
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Yea, i thought it was obvious but some people on here... ;)

I want to order one but i dont want to let ocuk charge me until i know they have stock.
 
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