Western Digital’s 300GB VelociRaptor primed for datacenters

Western Digital seems to think they can come into the enterprise market with their shiny new VelociRaptor drives.  WD has announced they will be releasing an SAS version of these new hard drives specifically aimed at the enterprise market.  Unfortunately, my personal experience with the 74GB and 150GB Raptors in RAID configurations has been grim.  Even Supermicro’s engineers recommend staying away from Raptors for RAID configurations in their servers.  They’re just too flaky to work properly in the array.  Hopefully Western Digital iron’s out these kinks and can become a contender in this growing market to add some competition.