Some hard drive companies design desktop-class drives with the SATA interface. To meet the demands of enterprise storage, WD is going one better. WD is the only company combining a 10,000 RPM enterprise-class mechanical platform with the SATA interface to meet all the demands of the enterprise environment - reliability, performance, and reduced cost.
WD produces the worlds most reliable SATA drives. With 1.2 million hours MTBF, enterprise duty cycle, 5-year warranty, next-generation SATA technology, and state-of-the-art vibration tolerance, WD Raptor drives offer the best combination of reliability, high capacity, and performance for enterprise applications.
Key Features
– Reliable - designed and manufactured to enterprise-class standards to provide enterprise reliability in high duty cycle environments. With 1.2 million hours MTBF, these drives have the highest available reliability rating on a high-capacity drive. – Fast - with a next-generation SATA interface, 1.5 Gb/s data transfer rate, native command queuing (NCQ), and 16 MB cache, these drives deliver optimum performance. – RAID-specific, time-limited error recovery (TLER) - a feature unique to WD, prevents drive fallout caused by the extended hard drive error-recovery processes common to desktop drives. – Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF) - optimizes operation and performance when the drives are used in vibration-prone, multidrive systems such as rack-mounted servers or network storage. – FlexPower - connector technology that accepts power from either industry-standard or new SATA power supplies.
Applications – Servers, network attached storage, scientific computing, video surveillance, enterprise backup, document and image management, digital video.
System Requirements: – Serial ATA interface connector on motherboard or Serial ATA host adapter card (sold separately) with an available 32-bit PCI expansion slot – Windows 2000 or Windows XP
