Western Digital (WD), the world's second largest maker of computer hard drives, annouced today that it's now shipping 450GB and 600GB versions of its VelociRaptor hard drives which use a 6Gbit/second SATA interface. Spinning at 10,000 RPM, the 2.5 inch SATA drives are high performance drives...

Interesting article. All they did is take the 1.5TB drive and use the Seagate DOS disk utility to set the drive size to 300GB. The result is a drive much faster than the Western Digital Velociraptor. With the Seagate at just over half the price, this looks like it has potential. They even...