WD claims new Thunderbolt desktop hard drive is faster than SSD

Western Digital (WD) today released a portable external drive for Macs and a dual-disk external desktop backup drive that it claims is faster than a solid-state drive (SSD).

WD announced the My Book VelociRaptor Duo desktop backup drive and the My Passport for Mac. The My Passport for Mac portable drive comes with one 5Gbps USB 3.0 port.

Source: http://podcasts.infoworld.com/d/storage/wd-claims-new-thunderbolt-desktop-hard-drive-faster-ssd-201335?source=rss_storage

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