Western Digital VelociRaptor, 250GB, SATAIII WD2500BHTZ-40PK Fascicule

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Workstation Hard Drives

WD VelociRaptor drives offer an unmatched combination of 
high performance and high reliability, perfect for 
workstations, high-end video and photo editing, low-end 
servers and performance enthusiasts’ systems. 

SATA 6 Gb/s

2.5-inch/0.6-inch

10,000 RPM

250 and 500 GB; 1 TB

WD1000CHTZ
WD5000BHTZ
WD2500BHTZ

Note: Not all products may be 
available in all regions of the 
world.

Designed around a 10,000 RPM spin 
speed, these SATA 6 Gb/s drives include 
a 64 MB cache and deliver the ultimate 
performance for photo and video editing.

With 1.4 million hours MTBF, these drives 
have the highest available reliability rating 
on a high capacity SATA drive.

State-of-the-art technology delivers a 
balance of high performance and high 
capacity perfect for data-intensive 
workloads that require large amounts of 
storage such as video editing, 3D 
rendering and scientific modeling. 

Consumes less active and idle power 
than the previous generation 
WD VelociRaptor, while offering 66% 
more capacity and higher performance.

Technology adopted by WD and other 
drive manufacturers as one of multiple 
ways to continue growing hard drive 
capacities. AF is a more efficient media 
format that enables increased areal 
densities.

For workstations and PCs that support 
smaller form factor hard drives, such as 
all-in-one workstation PCs and 
high-density video storage systems, the 
WD VelociRaptor is available without its 
signature IcePack™ mounting frame.* 

*Take care to ensure proper thermal management of drives to 
maintain case temperatures at or below the drive’s specification.

Optimizes operation and performance 
when the drives are used in vibration-
prone, multi-drive chassis.

The recording head never touches the 
disk media ensuring significantly less 
wear to the recording head and media as 
well as better drive protection in transit.

In addition to being ROHS compliant, this 
generation of WD VelociRaptor is also a 
halogen free design.

Ensures reliability for applications that 
perform a high incidence of read/write 
operations at the same physical location 
on the disk. 

High-performance computing, 3D rendering, digital content creation and editing, scientific computing and image management.