If you need an industrial strength hard drive, you’re in luck. Western Digital plans to start selling its high-speed WD Raptor hard drives, which were originally designed to be used in servers, for the desktop PC market.
The 36GB Raptor drive isn’t for everyone. It offers less storage capacity than Western Digital’s Caviar line of desktop drives, which range from 30GB to 250GB. But the drive maker asserts that some people will make the trade off in size for performance. For those customers, the Raptor line will deliver data much more quickly than a standard desktop hard drive due to a combination of a newer drive interface, Serial ATA, and a faster rotation speed of 10,000 revolutions per minute, Western Digital said. As rotation speed increases, performance improves.
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