Western Digital VelociRaptor Raid 0

INTRODUCTION

Hard drive storage has been a bottleneck point in computers for as long as most of us can remember. Solid State Drives have hit the market, but currently are so expensive for the amount of storage that you get that they just aren't feasible. When you're looking at $200 for 128 GB of storage (for a generic SSD) you're likely to keep your old slow hard drive and just drool over the SSD line of products, wishing they offered a better price performance ratio.

We feel your storage needs pain and went in search of higher speed, better price performance products that still offer good speeds, but a better price performance ratio than SSD's. The Western Digital VelociRaptor 300 GB hard drive offers faster transfer rates than traditional platter drives, larger storage capacities than their more expensive cousins, the SSD, and speeds that rival SSD's when used in RAID 0.

To show how the different drives perform we went to the ends of the Earth and collected seven hard drives and ran them in nine different configurations, but none will ever have the coolness factor of the Western Digital VelociRaptor. With one exception, the Western Digital VelociRaptor in RAID 0!

About Western Digital

We are thousands of people worldwide working to help you collect, manage and use digital information. Our reliable hard drives are just about everywhere that digital information and content is found, from desktop and portable computers to external storage devices and personal video recorders in living rooms. Our customers are some of the largest computing and electronics companies in the world, as well as you, who could be using a WD drive right now.

Our highest capacity drives securely store your videos, music and photographs on desktop computers and are quiet, cool and deliver your content fast. We know that you like to take your personal digital material with you, so our smaller hard drives for notebook computing and portable storage devices are frugal on power and strong on durability.

Because so much of what you do is now recorded in digital form, WD makes it easy to safely store and share the articles of our lives, and to make duplicates to prevent loss. WD designs and markets plug-and-play external storage devices that expand the capacity of our computers and personal video recorders. They carry a WD label and are found at retailers worldwide.

Businesses have been using our desktop drives in their employees’ computers for decades, and now are taking advantage of WD’s high reliability with our enterprise SATA drives in their servers and expansive corporate storage systems, quickly providing critical information to their workers.

Designing, manufacturing and selling hard drives is all that we do. We understand the importance of the data you put on your hard drives. We focus our passion, knowledge and innovation on products that reliably keep your information and content safe and close at hand.

John F. Coyne

President and CEO