Purchased one of these just under a year ago and has never let me down. Proves itself to be so much faster than its competitors. This drive has lived up to its promise of low latencies, and I'm seeing noticably faster performance than with my previous Western Digital in all areas of disk-intensive activity. In combination with a RAID0 array for storing my data files (for which transfer rate, not latency, is important) I could not be happier with my PCs storage capabilities. Although this does cost a lot compared to its competitors it doesn't let you down. If speed is the way you want to go this will definately boost your pc's performance. Having looked at research of this compared to its leading competitors it came out on top in almost every test by a large margin. here are the tech specs:
Rotational Speed 10,000 RPM (nominal) Buffer Size 16 MB Average Latency 2.99 ms (nominal) Contact Start/Stop Cycles 20,000 minimum Seek Times Read Seek Time 4.6 ms Write Seek Time 5.2 ms (average) Track-To-Track Seek Time 0.4 ms (average) Full Stroke Seek 10.2 ms (average) Transfer Rates Buffer To Host (Serial ATA) 1.5 Gb/s (Max) Buffer To Disk 84 MB/s (Sustained)
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