Western Digital today officially released the VelociRaptor 1TB enterprise-class hard drive previously had on display at CES 2012, the product is also for this day to shipping channels.
With the release of the product there 500GB (WD5000HHTZ the) and 250GB (WD2500HHTZ) version of VelociRaptor 1TB (WD1000DHTZ the), cache sizes, this series compared the original products are upgraded to 64MB. The official recommended price (MSRP) of $ 319.99, $ 209.99 and $ 159.99 respectively.
Western Digital VelociRaptor 1TB model specifications and previous product is the same: speed 10000rpm, cache size increased to 64MB, SATA 6Gbps interface , sorry for this series were not equipped with SAS.
As an enterprise-class hard drive, the most important thing is durability. Western Digital VelociRaptor 1TB MTBF (mean time between failures) of 1.4 million hours, while providing a 5-year warranty . Hard body size of 2.5 inches, Western Digital will be installed in the 3.5-inch IcePark HDD bracket. IcePark can also play the role of improved heat dissipation, the hard disk surface temperature compared to the direct use of the 2.5-inch hard body can be reduced by about 7 degrees Celsius .
