WD VelociRaptor 1 ТБ

The Western Digital company announced in the spring of 2012 the beginning of deliveries of new drives of the well-known WD VelociRaptor series with a record capacity of 1 TB.

Designed for use with the powerful PC computers and Mac and also workstations for which users respect for right balance between performance and volume of disk space is extremely important, WD VelociRaptor perfectly is suitable for enthusiasts and workers of creative professions. Besides, also models with a capacity of 500 GB and 250 GB are available.

WD VelociRaptor 1 TB has the construction providing a corporate class of reliability at the high level of loadings and is addressed to professionals who would like to receive a maximum from the hard drive SATA. WD VelociRaptor will become the ideal drive providing high proizvoditelnot, an occasional seat for data storage and due reliability for work with graphics, video and audio-files and other resource-intensive applications of which the frequent addressing data on a disk and a large number of cycles of reading record is characteristic.

"Characteristics of new models from WD VelociRaptor line once again show the aspiration of the company to create productive and reliable SATA drives", – Darwin Kauffman, the vice president of WD corporation and the CEO of division of means of data storage for corporate systems noted. – "Considering the escalating requirements to opportunities of storage systems addressed to professional users the hard drives WD VelociRaptor of 1 TB show an ideal combination of performance and capacity".

This 2.5-inch drive is delivered with a 3.5-inch mounting frame of IcePack with the built-in radiator which allows to install the hard drive in a standard 3.5-inch compartment and provides the necessary level of cooling at intensive use.

Among the main features of the drives WD VelociRaptor:

Improbable data transfer rate – / with and a cache with a capacity of 64 MB all opportunities of the hard drive WD VelociRaptor with rotational speed 10,000 RPM allow to use the SATA interface of 6 GB optimum.

The increased capacity – the SATA drives WD VelociRaptor support technology of formatting Advanced Format Technology which allows to increase the volume of disk space available to the user up to 1 TB.

Unshakable reliability – these hard drives Designed and made according to standards for high-performance workstations show high reliability at a heavy load.

Low working temperature – Despite increase in capacity and performance, in comparison with the previous generation of drives of the WD VelociRaptor series, energy consumption new models is reduced in standby mode and remained at the previous level in working order.

Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF) – Optimizes utilization properties of disks during the work in the conditions of the vibration created by several drives.

Technology of head parking NoTouch – Thanks to the parking on special "stage", heads never concern a surface of disks that significantly reduces their wear.

Care of the environment – The new generation of WD VelociRaptor not only conforms to requirements of the directive ROHS, but also does not contain halogens.

Prices and terms of availability

The hard drives WD VelociRaptor with the five-year limited warranty can already be purchased at some distributors, resellers and in the elected on-line shops. The recommended retail price for WD VelociRaptor with a capacity of 1 TB (WD1000DHTZ model) is 319.99 dollars, for drives with a capacity of 500 GB (WD5000HHTZ model) – 209.99 dollars, and for hard drives with a capacity of 250 GB (WD2500HHTZ model) – 159.99 dollars. The additional information about the hard drives WD VelociRaptor and also about terms of the limited warranty it is possible to find on the website of http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=20 company.