Western Digital Raptor X - Return of the 10,000 RPM King

When Western Digital first let rumours fly back some three years ago of a desktop hard drive that would operate at 10,000RPM (something that was reserved for the server market) tongues were wagging, hoping to see this come to fruition. Western Digital didn’t disappoint, and so the Raptor series was born.

Surely the new Raptor X series of hard drives will be popular with enthusiasts who don’t mind spending a little extra money (try almost $600 USD for a 300GB RAID 0 setup) but others might opt for a different drive like the new 7200.9 series from Seagate which is much cheaper per gigabyte but still offers acceptable performance.

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