WD VelociRaptor 600GB: Fastest Hard Drive Ever

Name: WD VelociRaptor 600GB: Fastest Hard Drive Ever - Page 9
Brand: WD

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, April 06, 2010, 08:00 AM EDT

Our next series of Vantage tests will stress write performance of the drives. Applications like video editing, streaming and recording are the focus here...

Futuremark's PCMark Vantage

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Once again, the new VelociRaptor 600GB drive significantly outpaces the competition in every test (while the actual margins may look small in some tests, the percentage gains are significant). The older 300GB VelociRaptor comes close to the new drive in a couple of the tests, but there is no contest in the others.

Tags: Raptor, HD, Storage, SATA, WD, VelociRaptor

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