The VelociRaptor instantly differs from other disks – instead of the staid 3.5in design, this is actually a 2.5in notebook-sized model in a metallic 3.5in heatsink shell.
This is also the only drive this month that offers a 10,000rpm spindle speed over its two 150GB platters, and this is reflected in a seek time of 7ms – the best this month by quite a margin.
Other results underline the VelociRaptor’s dominance. The file read result of 102.6MB/sec is the fastest on test, and the write score of 85.6MB/sec isn’t far behind Samsung’s 750GB SpinPoint.
Read and write access times of 7ms and 2ms beat virtually every other drive in the Labs too, and a burst speed of 235.6MB/sec is also impressive.
This speed, though, comes at a price: £191 for 300GB equates to 68.4p/GB. Costly, then, but if you’re after ultimate performance without SSD prices, the VelociRaptor is where you should look.
Specifications | |
|---|---|
| Capacity | 300GB |
| Hard disk usable capacity | 279GB |
| Hard disk type | Mechanical |
| Cache size | 16MB |
| Spindle speed | 10,000RPM |
| Seek time (ms) | 7ms |
| Cost per gigabyte | 68.4p |
Noise and power | |
| Idle power consumption | 7W |
Performance tests | |
| HD Tach burst speed | 235.6MB/sec |
| HD Tach random access speed | 7.0ms |
| HD Tach average sequential read speed | 108.3MB/sec |
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