Western Digital Velociraptor 10,000 rpm HDD

Announced today the Velociraptor WD 10000 RPM enterprise SATA hard drives in an enterprise-class 2.5-inch form factor for blade servers and 1U and 2U rack servers.

The latest WD Velociraptor hard drive is designed for enterprise-class applications engineering and packaging up to 300 GB capacity of the company berries form factor, while consuming 35 percent less energy than previous generation WD Raptor drive.

Velociraptor WD 2.5-inch hard drives are designed and manufactured to enterprise-class standards for high reliability in environments cycle, resulting in the highest available reliability rating of any SATA disk to 1.4 million hours MTBF (Mean Time Been failure).

Features of the new WD VelociRaptor hard drives include:

* Killer Speed -10,000 RPM, SATA 3 Gb/s interface and 16 MB cache deliver enterprise-class performance.
* Rock-solid Reliability - WD VelociRaptor drives are designed and manufactured to business-critical, enterprise-class standards to provide high reliability in high duty cycle environments. The design results in the highest available reliability rating of any SATA drive at 1.4 million hours MTBF.

* Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF™) technology - Optimizes performance when the drives are used in vibration-prone, multi-drive chassis.

* Ultra-cool operation - WD VelociRaptor drives consume 35 percent less power than the previous generation of WD Raptor drive.

* NoTouch™ ramp load technology - The recording head never touches the disk media ensuring significantly less wear to the recording head and media as well as better drive protection in transit.