Western Digital 20,000 RPM Raptor in the works

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 06/07/2008 04:32 AM | source: | 0 comment(s)

The word was loud on computex regarding this news topic for sure. To be able to compete with the up and coming Solid State drives Western Digital is rumored to be working on a 20.000 RPM Raptor drive. See, this is the effect of competition. In our Computex report we already stated that prices on SSD drivers are going down pretty hard over the coming and next year and the read/write & copy speed of these things are now moving towards 200 MB/sec .. and that's just crazy fast.

So that has to worry manufacturers like Western Digital. Ah well it's just a rumor ... or is it ?

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