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The VelociRaptor WD6000HLHX
The Western Digital VelociRaptor 600 GB (WD6000HLHX) is based on the same form factor as the original VelociRaptor. Although labelled as a 2.5" drive, the VelociRaptors are physically thicker than standard 2.5" hard disk drives - VelociRaptors are 15 mm thick, while regular 2.5" hard disk drives are just 9.5 mm thick. Therefore, it is not possible to slide a VelociRaptor into any notebook.
The HLHX model comes with the IcePack heatsink cum mounting frame pre-installed. This allows the VelociRaptor 600 GB hard disk drive to conform to the industry standards for 3.5" hard disk drives. It will fit into any standard 3.5" drive bay and is even ready for backplane mounting.
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The label has a lot of important information, like the hard drive model and capacity. There are also interesting details like its date and place of manufacture. This particular drive was manufactured in Malaysia in February 2010. The underside is SOP for Western Digital - completely bare of any surface-mounted components.
Usable Capacity
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This Western Digital VelociRaptor 600 GB drive officially has a formatted capacity of 600,127 MB. We checked that out by formatting both in NTFS using Microsoft Windows 7.
The actual formatted capacity was 600,124,157,952 bytes. This is slightly (2.9 MB) lower than the official formatted capacity. With about 112 MB allocated to the NTFS file system, the actual usable capacity remained slightly above 600 GB.
Let's take a look at its specifications.
Specifications
Model |
• WD6000HLHX |
Formatted Capacity |
• 600,127 MB |
Guaranteed Sectors |
• 1,172,123,568 |
Bytes Per Sector |
• 512 bytes |
Sectors Per Track |
• NA |
Cylinders |
• NA |
Platters |
• 3 Platters |
Read/Write Heads |
• 6 Read/Write Heads |
Recording Method |
• Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR) |
Interleave |
• 1 : 1 |
Spindle Speed |
• 10,000 RPM |
Cache Buffer |
• 32 MB SDRAM |
Internal Data Transfer Rate |
• 145 MB/s (sustained, maximum) |
Maximum I/O Transfer Rate |
• 6.0 Gbits/s |
Average Seek |
• 3.6 ms (read) |
Average Latency |
• 3.0 ms |
Drive Ready Time |
• 7 seconds |
Interface |
• Serial ATA 6 Gb/s |
Supported SATA Data Transfer Mode |
• 6.0 Gbits/s |
SATA Hotplug Capability |
• Yes |
Maximum Height |
• 26.1 mm (1.028 inches) |
Maximum Width |
• 101.6 mm (4.00 inches) |
Maximum Length |
• 147.0 mm (5.787 inches) |
Maximum Weight |
• 489 g (1.08 lbs) |
Power Requirements |
• +12V DC ± 10 % |
Power Consumption |
• 6.20 W (Read / Write) |
Ambient Temperature |
• 0 °C to 55 °C
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Maximum Shock |
• 30 G @ 2 ms (Read/Write) |
Drive Acoustics |
• 30 dBA average (Idle Mode) |
Non-Recoverable Read Errors |
• 1 error per 1015 bits read |
MTBF |
• 1,400,000 hours |
Load/Unload Cycles |
• 600,000 (minimum) |
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