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Western Digital WD1500 Raptor

Western Digital WD1500 Raptor is the ideal desktop hard drive for those people who have acting dreams. When it was released in the market, it was quite costly and every person cannot pay $200 on a hard drive that stores about 150 GB. But the question is that is the Raptor still the greatest option of the regular users. There is no change in the price of this desktop hard drive for several months but one can simply purchase a hard drive of 400 GB by just paying half of the money.

Raptor is very well known to the hardware experts as it is a desktop hard drive of 3.5 inch that rotates at 10,000 RPM. Some of the desktop drives revolve at 7,200 RPM and the costly server hard drives run rapidly as compared to other desktop hard drives. If the comparison is being done in other models of Raptor established by Western Digital, then one can observe a drastic change and improvement in the new WD1500 Raptor. The first WD Raptor containing 74 and 36 GB was established in the market about 3 years ago. One year before, Raptor-X established by Western Digital was launched in the market which provides an elective clear cover and more performance enabling the regular users to have a look inside the hard drive.

But when the Raptor was launched by the Western Digital, it has shown the remarkable performance and has left the other 3.5 inch Serial ATA hard drives in the long run instead of being invented for the entry-level servers. The main advantages which the users notice while utilizing this WD1500 Raptor was its quick speed. The ever-growing speed (10,000 RPM) offers two vital benefits as compared to other slower drives. First advantage is that the rates of data transmit raises distinctly. Secondly, 10,000 RPM hard drives display shorter revolving latencies which refers to that this hard drive will take less time in transferring the data once they were placed.

It also contains some disadvantages as other hard drives. It includes heavy price mark of more than $200. Other disadvantages include evidently higher heat indulgence because of revolving friction and higher operating noise. There is also an improved danger of a loss of data as if both the hard drives fail, the complete display will be lost. Therefore, WD1500 Raptor which is considered to be the desktop hard drive is the best option for the users. So, one can purchase it and have fun with this exciting raptor.

With increasing Medias of entertainment, business and education, the storage is becoming a foremost and inescapable issue to consider. Keeping all this in view, Western Digital has decided to launch something that can be granted as a perfect solution for storage problem. The WD has finally launched a whole family of My Book World Edition for the storage of appliances in the nation.

There are two products in this WD family edition that includes My Book World Edition and Edition II. Both the editions permits the users either the home office workers or the consumers to steadily access the digital documents, such as home videos, photos and other important documents.

The first edition of the My Book World offers a storage of 500GB, whereas its second Edition has supports a dual drive configuration and offers storage of 1TB and RAID capacity.

This amazing storage device is incorporated with new software known as ‘WD Anywhere Access’. This software simplifies the process of accessing the digital content and ruptures all the obstruction to physical immediacy to that content.

The device comes with a unique feature named as Data OnHand. This feature makes it possible to access the My Book World Edition Actively in Windows and Window Explorers ‘Open’ and ‘Save As’ options when the system is connected with internet. This feature makes things easier for the user, even if he/she is accessing the content from thousand miles away from the location of the My Book World Edition appliance.

According to Sales Director for India and South Asia, Sharad Srivastava, this brilliant product eliminates the restrictions if conventional hard drives. This amazing product enables the users to carry maximum of 1 terabyte of data wherever and whenever they want. This absolutely new styled storage option allows almost immeasurable accessibility to friends, family and acquaintances for backup and sharing.

In today’s environment of social networking, this amazing product enables the family and friends to access their digital content like documents and photographs at anyplace in the world, getting bothering about the insecurity and inconvenience of first loading it on the third-party website.

Both the modules of My Book World Edition have following salient features:

· well-suited with wireless and wired networks

· equipped with LED for on/off button

· offer user-friendly backup software

· Exclusive gauge LED that enables the user to determine the free space for storage and to check out the limited three years warranty.

The My Book Edition Family can be easily purchased from the online store of WD, or from the retail stores, Mediaman Infotech and online retailers.

The II Edition of My Book World is available for an approximate market cost of Rs. 24, 950 and the My Book World Edition having 500GB storage is available for about Rs. 13,950.