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- ***SINGLE PACK BULK*** Western Digital VelociRapto
- Micro-hard-drives
- 250 GB 2.5″ Internal SATA Drive
Product DescriptionWD Raptor has evolved! PC enthusiasts’ favorite 10,000 RPM SATA drive is now faster than ever and available in a 300 GB capacity. Engineered for maximum speed, WD VelociRaptor combines a SATA 3 Gb/s interface and 16 MB cache, to deliver performance that’s up to 35 percentage faster than its speedy older brother. With 1. 4 million hours MTBF, these drives have the highest available reliability rating on a high-capacity SATA drive and are designed and manufactured to e. . . More >>
Comments
5 comments
March 4, 2010
I have had this drive for 2 weeks, used it for testing purposes in a rig for a friend and this drive performs above the average 7200rpm or older 10k Raptors. They sure are better than the 7200 rpm stuff out there. Seek times are marginally faster than the old raptor while capacity is acceptable for the current generation of OS requirements.
Price per GB is about ~$1. If you search the market you will find that 15000 rpm SAS drives are much faster than this dinasour in terms of rotational speed, latency and seek times. The sequential read of 15k drives is about the same as 10k but SAS drives are much more efficient and a step above this. What matters in a drive is the small size random writes and the SAS trounce the raptor in every sense.
Current generation of motherboards have marvell SAS controllers which is enough and getting a SAS drive is a better route than the Raptor. There isn’t anything better than 15k drives in the mechanical drives realm. If you are buying this is because you are enthusiast and since the SAS drives cost less than the raptor makes this product overpriced slow and bad choice.
Rating: 1 / 5
March 4, 2010
Windows rated my system 5. 2 because of the low data transfer rate of my hard drive. I purchased the VelociRaptor because of the 10,0000 RPM speed and 16 MB Cache. Windows now rates my system at 5. 9 citing the low disk transfer rate of my hard drive. Not much of an improvement.
Rating: 2 / 5
March 4, 2010
I can not comment much on this product because I was sent a Seagate Cheetah instead, but Amazon was nice enough to take it back and is sending the right order. I have purchased this same model before and it works great. There was some small problems but now it works and it is very fast.
Rating: 4 / 5
March 4, 2010
Very Stable on the following system:
- EVGA 132-CK-NF78-A1 nForce 780i SLI
Socket 775 A1 Version Motherboard
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 Processor, 2. 83 GHz,
12M L2 Cache, 1333MHz FSB, LGA775
- Vista Business 64-bit Operating System
- Zalman CNPS9700NT Copper Heat Pipe CPU Cooler
- OCZ OCZ2N800SR4GK SLI DDR2 PC2-6400
4 GB Dual Channel Memory Kit
- EVGA 512-P3-N976-AR e-GeForce 9800 GT
Superclocked 512MB DDR3 PCI-E 2. 0 Graphics Card
- CORSAIR 650w TX Series 80 Plus Certified Power Supply
Rating: 5 / 5
March 4, 2010
Great drive! If you are looking for performance this is the one to get. I have a 300G at home and I installed this 150G in the boss’s PC. I cloned the contents of the old drive – Big difference on load time and boot-up.
This is actually a 3. 5″ drive in a 5. 25″ heatsink. Seems to run fairly cool to the touch, I wonder if the heat would be too much in a laptop. . .
Rating: 5 / 5