<span class="content"> <p><font size="2">Western Digital officially announced the 300GB based VelociRaptor a couple of weeks ago as the successor to the Raptor family. We provided a preview of the drive and came away impressed with its performance although our review sample was suffering from early firmware problems and other maladies.</font></p> <p><font size="2">Western Digital responded to our concerns quickly and provided us with a new drive. Western Digital still has not finalized the firmware for the retail market, but expects to very shortly. We will provide a full review of the drive including RAID and enterprise benchmark results once this occurs. The acoustic and thermal characteristics of the new drive did not differ from our previous results. However, the performance differences noticed when testing the new drive is worth a quick update to our original article.</font></p> <p><a href="http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3303">Read more...</a></p> </span>