WD VelociRaptor WD1000DHTZ (1TB review: WD VelociRaptor WD1000DHTZ (1TB

The 1TB WD VelociRaptor WD1000DHTZ is the first hard drive I have reviewed in a long time and that's because it's among only a few on the market that can be considered an alternative to standard solid-state drives (SSDs).

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WD VelociRaptor WD1000DHTZ (1TB

$250 at Best Buy

$78 at Amazon

The Good

The <b>WD VelociRaptor WD1000DHTZ</b> offers great performance and offers 1TB of storage space.

The Bad

The new WD VelociRaptor WD1000DHTZ is noticeably more expensive than regular hard drives of the same capacity.

The Bottom Line

WD VelociRaptor WD1000DHTZ makes an excellent storage solution for housing a large amount of data that's frequently accessed and manipulated.

Among other things, the VelociRaptor is different from its peers by offering the spinning speed of 10,000 rpm, which translates into the best performance among consumer-grade hard drives. Compared with SSDs, it's not clearly behind either, in fact outdoing some in certain tests. On top of that it doesn't suffer from limited P/E (program/erase) cycles, which all SSDs do.

That said, if you are a professional who needs an internal drive that can handle lots of data writing and re-writing, such as editing movies, the new 1TB WD VelociRaptor WD1000DHTZ is the way to go. It's best to use two units in a RAID 0 configuration, or use it as a secondary hard drive on your computer with the main one being an SSD.