{"id":16981,"date":"2010-04-09T16:23:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T15:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=16981"},"modified":"2010-04-09T16:23:17","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T15:23:17","slug":"western-digital-velociraptor-600gb-sata-6g-hard-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/western-digital-velociraptor-600gb-sata-6g-hard-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Digital VelociRaptor 600GB SATA 6G Hard Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>QUOTE:<\/strong> <em>&quot;On the capacity front we have already reviewed solid state drives with 512GB of capacity, quite a bit more than the first 300GB VelociRaptor, but of course the cost was more than what six 300GB VelociRaptors would be. It was still a contributing reason why Western Digital should take a good look at the series and either kill it or update it with a new product line as quickly as possible.<\/em><i>     <br \/><em>Given that it is now April, quick wasn\u2019t really on Western Digital\u2019s deck since we have been hearing rumors of a new VelociRaptor since CES back in January. Looking at how the market has changed since that time, it is easy to dissect why. SATA 6G has had a few ups and downs with Marvell slow to act on driver issues that affect performance. Getting in a good test with SATA 6G and an existing drive, the Caviar Black 1GB with SATA 6G was the next logical step and would have moved a new VelociRaptor back. Western Digital has also spent a great deal of time working on a solid state drive product line and we have already seen the first fruit fall from the WD SSD tree last month.&quot;<\/em><\/i>    <br \/><strong>For more information, please visit &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/mailbot.tweaktown.com\/cgi-bin\/dada\/mail.cgi\/r\/TweakTown_News\/h\/20100408013107\/www.tweaktown.com\/reviews\/3223\/western_digital_velociraptor_600gb_sata_6g_hard_drive\/index.html\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/mailbot.tweaktown.com\/cgi-bin\/dada\/mail.cgi\/r\/TweakTown_News\/h\/20100408013107\/www.tweaktown.com\/reviews\/3223\/western_digital_velociraptor_600gb_sata_6g_hard_drive\/index.html\/', 'http:\/\/www.tweaktown.com\/reviews\/3223\/western_digital_velociraptor_600gb_sata_6g_hard_drive\/index.html']);\" >http:\/\/www.tweaktown.com\/reviews\/3223\/western_digital_velociraptor_600gb_sata_6g_hard_drive\/index.html<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUOTE: &quot;On the capacity front we have already reviewed solid state drives with 512GB of capacity, quite a bit more than the first 300GB VelociRaptor, but of course the cost was more than what&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2535],"tags":[821,820,2572,1948,416,415],"class_list":["post-16981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-news","tag-hard-disk-drive","tag-hdd","tag-sata-3","tag-velociraptor","tag-wd","tag-western-digital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}