Western Digital VelociRaptor WD6000HLHX SATA Enterprise Hard Drive

Killer speed - Built on the performance bloodlines of WD Raptor®, these 10,000 RPM drives, with SATA 6 Gb/s interface, and 32 MB cache deliver mind-bending performance. Not only are they 15% faster than the previous generation WD Raptor drives, but they also beat out all other competitors in the field.

Rock-solid reliability - Designed and manufactured to mission-critical enterprise-class standards to provide enterprise reliability in high duty cycle environments. These drives have the highest available reliability rating on a high capacity SATA drive.

Double the capacity - State-of-the-art technology packs twice the capacity per disk compared to its older brother WD Raptor resulting in up to 600 GB of high-performance storage space in this enterprise-class drive.

Ultra-cool operation - Consumes less idle power and uses similiar active power as the previous generation of WD Raptor.

IcePack™ mounting frame - The 2.5-inch WD VelociRaptor is enclosed in a backplane-ready 3.5-inch enterprise-class mounting frame with a built-in heat sink that keeps this powerful little drive extra cool when installed in high-performance desktop chassis.

Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF™) - Optimizes operation and performance when the drives are used in vibration-prone, multi-drive chassis.

NoTouch™ ramp load technology - The recording head never touches the disk media ensuring significantly less wear to the recording head and media as well as better drive protection in transit.

Drive specification

WD6000HLHX

Formatted Gbytes (512 bytes/sector)

600GB  ( 600,127 MB )

Bytes per sector

512

Spindle speed (RPM)

10,000

I/O data transfer rate (MBps)

600

Cache buffer

32 Mbytes

Interface Type

Serial ATA - 6Gb/s

User Sectors Per Drive

 1,172,123,568

Native Command Queuing

Yes 

Form Factor

3.5"

Sustained Data Transfer Rate

145 MB/s

Load / Unload cycles

600,000

Dimensions (HxLxW) inches

1.028 / 5.787 / 4.00

Weight

1.08 lbs

Operating Shock (Read)

65G, 2ms

Non-operating Shock

300G, 2ms

Temperature - Operating

5 C - 55 C 

Temperature - Non-operating

-40C - 70C