Testurteil: "6/10"
Test: Einzeltest: Western Digital VelociRaptor 600GB
Zitat: You’ll notice during our performance analysis that we’ve specifically not compared the VelociRaptor to an SSD, and this is because, while they´re both forms of high-performance storage, we don’t feel the two can be fairly compared. It’d be like comparing an HGV with a sports car – they both do technically the same thing, but are better suited to different tasks. While the VelociRaptor 600GB is a very fast hard disk, and grants obvious performance benefits over hard disk drives, it just can’t expect to match the near-instant responsiveness and feeling of using an SSD as a boot disk, and our testing backs this up. We haven´t included The Crucial C300 256GB in the access time or random read write latency tests simply because it would horribly skew the graph. However, the VelociRaptor 600GB does deliver a 10-15 per cent improvement in real world circumstances in comparison to the best hard disk drives, meaning that it has a use as a fast bulk-storage drive. We’ve talked before about the size limits of SSDs holding them back, but the VelociRaptor 600GB combines both a palpable speed improvement over typical hard disks and more than enough space for the biggest Steam install or a holiday’s worth of RAW files to batch-process. For that 10-15 per cent performance improvement you pay a hefty price though. At £209.99 the VelociRaptor works out at £0.37/formatted GB, whereas the Western Digital 2TB Caviar Black weighs in at just £130.65, or £0.07/formatted GB. This means that the VelociRaptor can only be seen as a luxury product. Despite unmatched performance versus other hard disks, and much better value per GB than an SSD, the VelociRaptor 600GB isn’t so much faster than a cheaper high-capacity hard disk that it’s worth buying. For high-performance storage, an SSD is still the best option.
