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The only 10,000 RPM enterprise-class drives with the SATA interface to meet all the demands of the enterprise environment—reliability, performance, and reduced
cost!
Western Digital also produces the world’s most reliable SATA drives. With 1.2 million hours MTBF, enterprise duty cycle, 5-year limited 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.
- 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.
- 5-year limited warranty
| Performance
Specifications |
| 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
(Average) |
| Read Seek Time (Average) |
4.6 ms |
| Write Seek Time (Average) |
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) |
150 MB/s (Max) |
| Buffer To Disk |
84 MB/s (Sustained) |
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