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Articles: Storage
WD740GD aka Raptor 2 Hard Disk Drive Review (page 15)Category: Storage [ 02/18/2004 | 11:37 PM ] ConclusionSo, Western Digital released the second generation of their SATA drives with 10,000rpm spindle rotation speed. The new HDDs are equipped with super-dense 36GB platters and fast actuator, which determines their brilliant performance in synthetic benchmarks. The CQ support implemented in the new Raptor drives unfortunately didn’t improve the performance that much. It is hard to say why this happened: it is either the absence of CQ support by the existing controllers or the low efficiency of ATA CQ. One thing is clear though: no one is going to release any new SATA 1.0 controllers. Ultra/150/CQ support in the controller drivers is a completely different thing. Although will the SATA-controller manufacturers care about it now that the new SATA drives with NCQ support are about to come out? Of course, Western Digital will also introduce new HDDs with NCQ support. But we do not know yet if this is going to be the “new old Raptor” or a completely new generation of HDDs with NCQ support. Especially since most SCSI HDD makers usually announce new products in winter. Speaking about our today’s hero, WD740GD, I have to state that the new Raptor is significantly faster than its predecessor and boasts larger storage capacity, which will definitely make it more popular. Moreover, our tests showed that Western Digital WD740GD is the today’s fastest desktop hard disk drive. <%BANNER[banner_468x30]%>
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Category NewsCategory: Storage Wednesday, July 23, 20089:58 pm Western Digital Releases VelociRaptor for Enterprises. WD Launches Enterprise Version of VelociRaptor 12:29 pm SanDisk Blames Windows Vista for Low Performance of Solid State Drives. SanDisk: Vista Is Not Optimized for Flash Memory Solid State Disk Friday, July 18, 20086:03 am Micron and Seagate to Lead Solid State Drive Standardization Efforts at JEDEC. JEDEC Announces Dedicated Subcommittee to Set Standards for SSDs Friday, July 11, 20089:50 pm Seagate Unleashes World's First 1.5TB Hard Disk Drives. Seagate Increases Hard Drive Capacity to 1500GB Thursday, July 10, 20082:03 pm Samsung Starts Volume Production of 128GB Solid State Drives. Samsung Initiates Mass Production of Relatively Affordable 128GB SSDs All Latest News <%BANNER[right_130x130_1]%>
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