These are the cream of the crop for inexpensive storage. They will never be as fast as the VelociRaptor drives, they won’t come close to outperforming an SSD. This drive is priced at $100 per TB. It will exceed the performance of the Caviar Green drives by a significant margin.
It spins at 7200 RPM, has 32MB cache, has dual processors on board and a 5 year warranty from Western Digital. It is the WD1001FALS OEM hard drive.
If you are looking for the best performance per dollar, for long term storage, this is the right tool for the job. If you are looking for extreme performance, visit the review of the Intel X25-M SSD
Editor’s Choice Award April 2010
Rating 10 of 10