Digital Home Thoughts: Maximum PC Reviews The Western Digital VelociRaptor 600GB

"For years, if you wanted the speediest consumer hard drive you could get your hands on, you went with a 10,000rpm Western Digital Raptor. Its first incarnation, released in 2003, was a 37GB single-platter drive using a PATA-to-SATA bridge. The next year brought a 74GB SATA 150 drive, and thereafter the drives roughly doubled in size (and went up a SATA spec) every couple of years. Last time WD refreshed the line, it bumped the capacity to 300GB, named the resulting 100MB/s-plus drive the VelociRaptor, and promptly won our Kick Ass award. But that was 2008-several hard drive generations ago. And though Western Digital's latest VelociRaptor ups the ante with 600GB of space and a 6Gb/s SATA controller, the drive now has to compete with solid state drives and high-capacity, high-performance drives like WD's own Caviar Black series."

The VelociRaptor has always been one of the, if not the, fastest drives you could buy for your system, excluding SSD of course. It always lagged behind other drives on capacity, trading the space for speed, and making it highly sought after for those wanting fast system response times. Western Digital have now increased the capacity to 600GB from 300GB making this a good option for your OS and program drive. Check out the review at Maximum PC.