Smart Hard Drives: Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 and Western Digital WD740 Raptor

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Western Digital WD740 Raptor, Continued

Significant improvements of the WD740 over the WD360 include the availability of tagged command queuing - which, owing to the lack of a test system, it was not possible for us to test - and the switch to FDB (fluid dynamic bearing). Even just a few seconds after starting the drive, the difference from the WD360 can be heard clearly - the Raptor has gotten considerably quieter.

Patrick Schmid
Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.