Mac Pro with Western Digital VelociRaptor 600G ?

Hello people,
Has anyone tried upgrading the HDDs in the Mac Pros with the new drive from WD
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=821
From what i see, as the last model, this will probably not fit natively due to a lower pin arrangement that will not match the Mac Pro SATA slots with the factory HDD sleds. Am i wrong?
If you have this drive how does it compare?
Thanks

Hi-
That drive of this following model is plug and play in the MP:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Western%20Digital/WD6000HLHX/
A pair of them in a striped RAID are as fast as the fastest SSD.
October 5th, 2010 -- For less that the price of one 256G SSD, you can buy two 10K 600G Velociraptor HDDs. If you stripe them (RAID 0), you get the same sustained transfer speed as the SSD. But, alas, the SSD can process 14 times as many small random transfer requests per second. Then again, considering you are getting 5 times the storage of the SSD and 3 times the transactions per second of the fastest 7K HDD, it's is an interesting option for a boot volume.
http://www.barefeats.com/quick.html

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