New WD VelociRaptor benchmarks

A few weeks ago Western Digital (WD) introduced the successor of it's well-known Raptor hard disk, named the VelociRaptor. Anandtech already ran benchmarks of a preview model, though the drive was fast in the tests, there were still some minor problems due to the disk's firmware. WD has since improved this and even though not all problems are solved yet, the disk performs a lot better, reason enough for Anandtech to update their article.

To make things easy, we've created a table of some of the benchmarks. The New column is represented by the VelociRaptor with new firmware, the column Old by the older firmware and the WD6400AAKS by a reference disk, in this case a WD SE16 640GB model. As seen below, the results aren't always as different. However, in some cases, like the file copy test, a significant performance increase can be seen. Anandtech also reports that the new firmware version is not a retail version, so further performance advantages and bugfixes are a possibility.

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