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The high performance capabilities of Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives were validated recently, when WD Raptor 10,000 RPM SATA drives from Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) outperformed 10,000 and 15,000RPM SCSI drives from two competitors in separate independent, head-to-head comparison tests conducted by and published in the June issue of Maximum PC magazine and the upcoming July issue of CustomPC magazine (UK). “Going into this test, we… Read More

The highest performance Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive available today, and the only one that spins at 10,000 RPM, WD Raptor is a high-end option on Dell's Precision workstation and Dimension PCmodels, including the new Dimension XPS model built for power users and extreme gamers. Customers now can order Precision workstations or Dimension desktop PCs with one or two WD Raptor 36 GB drives from http://www.dell.com/. WD Raptor drives deliver… Read More

This retail kit brings enterprise-class reliability and speed to those end users who prefer premium components for their state-of-the-art computer systems. WD Raptor Enterprise SATA hard drives, which were introduced earlier this year for business applications, are the world's fastest Serial ATA drives and feature specifications of: 10,000 RPM; 5.2milliseconds (ms) average seek time; 1.2 million hours MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure); and… Read More