Western Digital VelociRaptor 600GB Review

Written by Harry Butler

August 23, 2010 | 10:43

Tags: #10000rpm #600gb #clever-girl #comparison #fast #hard-disk #hard-drive #open-doors #performance #raptor #raptor-attack #speed #ssd

Companies: #wd #western-digital

STALKER: Call of Pripyat

Publisher: Deep Silver

From our STALKER: Call of Pripyat review:
One place where STALKER: Call of Pripyat definitely excels is in the graphics department, with fancy DirectX 11 tessellation, huge view distances and a gorgeous lighting system that really delivers in wow-factor. Pushing the game up to the maximum settings can require some hefty hardware obviously, but it’s worth the effort if you can because the technical prowess of the game is one thing that’s impossible to fault.

We run the game in DirectX10 with full detail at 1,280 x 1,024, manually timing the game's first uncached load. The system is the rebooted and the test repeated twice, with the average result taken.

STALKER: Call of Pripyat

Level Load

  • Crucial C300 256GB
  • WD VelociRaptor 600GB (SATA 3Gbps)
  • WD VelociRaptor 600GB (SATA 6Gbps)
  • WD 2TB Caviar Black
  • Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB
  • WD 1TB Caviar Black
  • 20
  • 28
  • 31
  • 31
  • 32
  • 32
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
Seconds (lower is better)

Windows 7 64-bit Boot

Boot Time

Windows 7 64-bitto Desktop

  • Crucial C300 256GB
  • WD VelociRaptor600GB (SATA 3Gbps)
  • WD Black 2TB
  • WD Black 1TB
  • WD VelociRaptor600GB (SATA 6Gbps)
  • Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB
  • 24
  • 48
  • 57
  • 63
  • 65
  • 72
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
Seconds (lower is better)

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