I don't know who let the geeks into the marketing department, but an ubernerd had to be responsible for tacking "Veloci" onto Western Digital's Raptor line of hard drives.

Western Digital picked an extremely appropriate name for its new 10,000 rpm (rotations per minute) hard drive. Dubbed the VelociRaptor, this new drive, introduced today... [read more]

The new drive brings the previously 150GB drive size to 300GB and beats the next fastest drive on the market by 32 seconds when writing 3.09GB.