Western Digital has just announced a new drive in their Raptor lineup, called the VelociRaptor. It's a 2.5" form factor drive fitted into a heatsink that adapts it to 3.5". The basic specs are 10K RPM, 300GB, SATA 3Gb/s, 16MB cache.

Announcement
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/company/r...A2191EB887F4%7d

Product Page
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=459

Reviews
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?type=expe...d=548&pid=2
http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/Wester...ciraptor_300GB/
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/the_new_f...hard_drive_ever
http://techreport.com/articles.x/14583

As great as the reviews of their previous Raptor drives were, I couldn't get over the amount of noise these drives generated. Hopefully these smaller ones will be quieter.

I just read the TechReport review. At idle it's one of the quietest drives in their test (of over two dozen drives). When seeking it gets a bit louder, but still much quieter than the previous Raptor drives. It was pretty much in the middle of the list for seek noise.

Two words... "I" & "want"



Stupid... not having... money....

Ditto.



Double Ditto.

Want I? What does that mean?

Sorry, couldn't resist...

In Yoda-speak, it means "I want".