Western Digital's VelociRaptor VR200M hard drive
@ 2010/04/10Every time WD has released a new Raptor, the performance bar for desktop hard drives has been raised. But the new 600GB VelociRaptor VR200M enters a market teeming with SSDs whose split-millisecond access times blunt its previously formidable spindle speed advantage. Can the new Raptor keep up?
either use external RAID card and RAID 5 as you suggest; but than we're talking data storage. for a workstation fast access reigns supreme; which is where SSD dominate!
I would never consider buying a VelociRaptor drive, even if it spun 15k rpm and was 2tb in size; it's too noisy and slower in random IO compared to SSD.