Western Digital Creating 20K VelociRaptors

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   Western Digital Creating 20K VelociRaptors

With SSD drives becoming ever increasing in performance and storage and lowering in storage space, hard drive manufacturers are becoming more and more worried about their beloved magnetic recording technologies.  Hard drives have reached their pinnacle in performance with large storage capacities and extremely low prices. 
Western Digital does not want to give up this aging technology though.  Their line of Raptor drives are hard drives specifically aimed at provided performance first and capacity second.  Their newest generation of hard drives offer the very best in performance with low seek times and high transfer rates.
Western Digital is aiming to double performance by doubling the spindle speed from 10K RPM to 20K RPM.  Also of importance is that WD is keeping the 2.5" form factor in a 3.5" enclosure.  However this enclosure will feature noise and vibration dampening unlike the current generation VelociRaptors whose casing only dissipates heat.  With the SATA standard capable of transferring a maximum of 300 MB/s, these drives may actually push the boundaries of the SATA bandwidth limit.  Current generation hard drives are only utilizing only 40% of this bandwidth at most.

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