Western Digital 150 GB VelociRaptor SATA 10,000 RPM 16 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive WD1500HLFS
Dec 11, 2009 in
Computers & Software
- Rotational Speed: 10,000 RPM
- Buffer Size: 16 MB
- Capacity: 150 GB
- Interface: SATA 3 Gb/s
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 enterprise-class standards to provide enterprise reliability in high duty cycle environments…. More >>
Western Digital 150 GB VelociRaptor SATA 10,000 RPM 16 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive WD1500HLFS
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5 comments
The Great Garu on December 11, 2009 at 9:18 pm
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…
Marvin C. Williams on December 11, 2009 at 9:48 pm
This drive remains to be one of the fastest drives available. I have three of VelociRaptors drives running RAID0 for performance on par to my expectations. The solid state drives price point don’t add up in value like the VelociRaptor do. Great performance, value $1 a gig so I still value these drives. I compared them to solid state results in my HDTune pro with read results Minimum 158.7MB, Maxium 230.7MB, Average 190.5MB, Access time 7.1ms, Burst rate 192.1MB. I don’t have my friends solid state results in Hdtune but he was quite surprise that my results were as good as his for more storage and less money.
Mike on December 11, 2009 at 9:57 pm
This drive is FAST!!!!!! I mean this thing goes. This is my first raptor, and the first time i turned on my computer it had to of booted up almost 50% faster. Solid as a rock. Im very happy with this drive and id recommend it to any enthusiast out there! Cant wait for a second one so i can raid them. At times the drive can be a little loud, kinda reminds me of the older hard drives out there when u can hear them write to the disk, i can hear it a bit compared to my other drives, but what can u say this baby is movin at 10,000 RPMS! Love it
Ivan Zandelo on December 11, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Installed it into my Vista 64 bit system as a second drive a week ago and have had no problems. I’ve always had good luck with WD drives.
Alan LaMielle on December 12, 2009 at 1:23 am
I’m using the VelociRaptor as the OS drive in my media center/file server machine. Since switching from an older 120GB WD drive to this drive, the machine is much more responsive and snappy. I’m super happy with this device. It strikes a great balance between performance and cost given the current prices of SSDs. If you need a faster OS drive but don’t want to shell out the money for a SSD right now, this is a wonderful alternative.