Western Digital 300 GB VelociRaptor SATA 10,000 RPM 16 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive WD3000HLFS
Thursday, 19. November 2009. 04:31
- ***SINGLE PACK BULK*** Western Digital VelociRapto
- Micro-hard-drives
- 250GB 2.5″ Internal SATA Drive
- 250GI2S-TM
Product Description
WD 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… 
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November 19th, 2009 at 7:09 am
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
November 19th, 2009 at 9:56 am
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
November 19th, 2009 at 10:15 am
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
November 19th, 2009 at 10:21 am
I love this drive, Fast, quiet, low surface temp. Solid and reliable performance.
It’s a great buy for those who require fast transfer rates and low latencies, it does make my computer feel faster. OS and progs take several seconds less to load, and a user immediately senses the difference.
Awesome hard drive, but watch your budget.
Rating: 5 / 5
November 19th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
I love this drive. I’ve had it about a month. The drive is hands down faster than any drive I’ve ever had. Don’t go through the hassle of scsi, it is not worth the price and grief. This drive just plugs in and your ready to go. I used Acronis to backup my old drive and to restore to this one. So easy. The drive never pauses and runs cooler than my old drive. SSD (solid state drives) are coming into their own, but won’t be cost effective until mid 2010 in my opinion. Plus they still have the 80 mbps limit on writes. I develop databases so I use my pretty heavily.
Rating: 5 / 5