"Not only are they 35 percent faster than the previous generation WD Raptor drives, but they also beat out all other competitors in the field"
"Playing around this weekend with the VelociRaptor showed that the damn thing was faster than any other hard drive we had in-house, even our new 1TB WD hard drives, so while data density is a huge factor, it is not the only one when it comes to read and write speeds."
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTQ5MCwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==
http://kortlink.dk/tomshardware/56nm