Western Digital (WD) today announced that it has doubled the size of its Raptor harddrive. Already considered to be the best performing SATA device available today, the manufacturer enhanced the drive with I/O performance improvements through native command queuing (NCQ).
The Raptor has been dominating hard disk benchmarks since its introduction in 2003. WD now addressed some of the weak features of its original SATA drive in the first major overhaul in nearly two years. Most significantly, the Raptor's storage space has increased from 74 GB to 150 GB.