Western Digital 300 GB VelociRaptor Serial ATA Hard Drive Review

Adrian Wong · 10th Oct 2008, 10:42 PM

Western Digital may be marketing their new VelociRaptor family of high-speed hard drives as enterprise-class hard drives but they are also very popular with hardware enthusiasts who just cannot resist their 10,000 RPM spindle speed. Everything just seems a little faster when you use a hard drive that spins at such a high speed.

To cater to this exclusive group of enthusiasts, Western Digital first introduced the Raptor and Raptor X hard drives with capacities of 36 GB to 150 GB. These Raptors have now evolved into the next-generation Western Digital VelociRaptor hard drives, that not only boast twice the storage capacity but also managed to do it in a much smaller 2.5" drive form factor!

Let's find out just how much faster this drive is compared to the 10K RPM WD Raptor X and 7200 RPM hard drives!

Link : Western Digital 300 GB VelociRaptor Serial ATA Hard Drive Review

Max_87 · 10th Oct 2008, 11:03 PM

Just noticed, where is the heatsink?

PS. The "Comprehensive Review!" hyperlink is wrong.

mikegas · 10th Oct 2008, 11:31 PM

Finally the review is out... King of SATA drives.

Chai · 11th Oct 2008, 07:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Max_87

Just noticed, where is the heatsink?

PS. The "Comprehensive Review!" hyperlink is wrong.

WD3000BLFS doesn't have heatsink. I want to buy this version.

lee_what2004 · 11th Oct 2008, 10:19 AM

too bad can't put into notebook

Chai · 11th Oct 2008, 01:13 PM

You wouldn't want to plug into notebook. Power consumption is a little too high.

ZuePhok · 11th Oct 2008, 03:51 PM

wonder if two 150 raptor in raid 0 would be faster than this awesome drive?

Chai · 11th Oct 2008, 04:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZuePhok

wonder if two 150 raptor in raid 0 would be faster than this awesome drive?

In terms of access time, nope, never. But if you only need high transfer rate, RAID0 640GB would be alot cheaper and faster than Raptor 150GB RAID0.

Max_87 · 11th Oct 2008, 08:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chai

WD3000BLFS doesn't have heatsink. I want to buy this version.

Get two and run them in RAID 0

FAPFAPFAP

Adrian Wong · 14th Oct 2008, 10:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Max_87

Just noticed, where is the heatsink?

PS. The "Comprehensive Review!" hyperlink is wrong.

Are you sure? I just checked. They are all pointing to Tech ARP - Western Digital 300 GB VelociRaptor Serial ATA Hard Drive Review

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ZuePhok Hold me back! I can't stop posting!!! Join Date: 16 Dec 2002 Location: Floating Island Of Mandango Posts: 8,615 Reputation: 2913 Rep Power: 43	wonder if two 150 raptor in raid 0 would be faster than this awesome drive? __________________ my motto: poison first, think later.

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