News: Western Digital Raptor WD740GD

[Staff]

<br> <a href="http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200311/20031111WD740GD_1.html">StorageReview</a> presenta un'anteprima del nuovo HardDisk Raptor WD740GD con capacità di 74 GB di<a href="http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=65">Western Digital</a>.<p>
Caratteristiche tecniche:<p>
General <p>
Rotational Speed 10,000 RPM (nominal) <br>
Buffer Size 8 MB <br>
Average Latency 2.99 ms (nominal) <br>
Contact Start/Stop Cycles 20,000 minimum <p>
Seek Times (Average) <p>
Read Seek Time (Average) 4.5 ms <br>
Write Seek Time (Average) 5.9 ms (average) <br>
Track-To-Track Seek Time 0.6 ms (average) <br>
Full Stroke Seek 10.2 ms (average) <p>
Transfer Rates <p>
Buffer To Host (Serial ATA) 1,200 Mbits/s (Max) <br>
Buffer To Disk 816 Mbits/s (Max) <p>
<center><img src="http://www.storagereview.com/benchimages/WD740GD_top.jpg"></center><p>