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Western Digital's WD1500ADFD Raptor

It is often prescribed that Western Digital's Raptor is the perfect desktop hard drive for persons looking for a performance enhanced ambitions. Ever since western digital introduced the Raptor, it is known as the 3.5" desktop hard drive that spins at 10,000 RPM, and has eaten up the market of other 3.5” serial hard drives in the desktop space.

WD1500ADFD Raptor was released by western digital in January 2006 and features two 75 GB platters, which adds up to 150 GB. The WD1500ADFD Raptor consists of a more advanced system of native command queuing (NCQ). Hence due to this technology the Raptor is capable to increase the performance of SATA hard disks under certain situations.

Hitachi 2 TB Hardisk

Hitachi has waded into the 2TB drive market with not one but 2 models of internal 3.5-inch SATA 3 Gb/sec drives.

On the desktop side of things we have got the Deskstar 7K2000 while the server brigade could prefer to glance at the Ultrastar A7K2000 reviewed here. Both models use 5 platters and 10 heads to realize the 2TB capacity which is a real capacity of 1,863GB once the drive has been formatted.

There's 32MB of cache and as you would expect the drives have a 7,200rpm spin speed. The interface is SATA 3 Gb/sec (a.k.a. SATA II) which puts the Deskstar and Ultrastar in the main line but it also points to something of a difficulty for Hitachi as these new drives do not have a technical edge over competitors.

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Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2

As with the Radeon HD 4870 X2, the 4850 X2 is a dual designed chip 3D card. Powered by two Radeon HD 4850 GPUs, the X2 version is effectively a self-contained Crossfire setup.

Hitachi 2 TB Hardisk

Hitachi has waded into the 2TB drive market with not one but 2 models of internal 3.5-inch SATA 3 Gb/sec drives.

Western Digital's WD1500ADFD Raptor

Hitachi 2 TB Hardisk

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Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2

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