WD VelociRaptor 300GB Hard Drive WD3000HLFS - 10K RPM, 16MB Cache, SATA 300MB/s

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Rapidly and inexpensive. Reputable beneath heavy use. I run a pair of these in RAID0 on a 3ware card with ESXi for one particular of my VM datastores. My VM files are backed up often so operating RAID0 was strictly a performance choice. Right after about one particular year, 1 of the two drives stopped showing up on the 3ware card. I ordered a replacement and the dilemma is solved. I also have a pair of the 150GB VelociRaptors running in RAID0 with no issues.

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300GB of space @ ten,000 RPM with 16MB Cache, free of charge shipping and ๖ off!?!?! the Pros do not enable room for any Cons... ๳.99!!! LOL @ you who did not click Add to Cart when you had the likelihood. If you see these drives for that price again you'll know better. Newegg = ş! Awesome Website, Very good Job!!

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these drives are pleanty quickly, and dont make as significantly noise as some other basic drives. or as considerably as older drives. the quantity of power these require, and the amount of heat they produce. if you are possessing freezing, pausing, crashing..it is likley not the drive, but however your powersupply cannot handle the further energy draw of a drive like this..also if wanting to use a drive like this and keep it operating for a long time. it will will need to be in a enviroment where it wont move, viberate or shift at all beneath use.. your common tower on the floor or in in a shifty laptop desk will just not do.. also be confident your personal computer tower does not viberate at all.. if it does add weights inside or on top. these drives are sensitive and with the added speed of these it only tends to make them far more sensitive than a normal drive...also be certain the hdd has adaquate airflow.. being ran hot for a extended time can result in a quantity of problems such as grease on the bearings drying out and becoming thicker, and slowing of the study/write arm. which will destroy the drive.

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Appears pretty! This drive worked fine for about a year and then out of no exactly where while playing games it crashed. Now I am left with an 赨 paper weight and a ton of lost information. Needless to say I will under no circumstances obtain another Western Digital drive once again, I assume it may well be time to invest 躔 and get an SSD.

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I was rather impressed at how a lot faster games and applications in basic commence with this Drive. 120Meg/sec read price challenges even the biggest 7200RPM hard drives but the real killer is the access occasions. Almost no audible hum from the spinning platters. I was worried it would whine. In search of is Really LOUD, practically like a crunching bag of chips. But given that that only occurs when its in use, I don't care. Doesn't hold a candle to my trusty SSD, but when games are 10gig+, who can afford that?

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Nice and quick throughout testing. Just installed two brand new out of box drives.Only been formatted, no information and initial surface scan shows a lot of prospective difficulty sectors in the future for both drives.Interestingly these sectors is closely related positioned on each drives Will observe for a couple of additional days before deciding on RMA.Will give at least 3 eggs as there nonetheless rapid and going, but would have been five if not for the questionable integrity of these 2.

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Quiet and rapid A small high priced but I have generally liked WD and hope the additional price will pay for itself in the long run.

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None It crashed within a single month - garbage drive

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Worked fine till it didn't. Died partial death immediately after 6 months. Luckily was nonetheless capable to extract information from drive.

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I was getting some truly lengthy load times with my earlier HDD, which was an old 80G PATA format from 2005.. The velociraptor is a couple of instances faster, load instances no longer a problem. Plenty of space. I couldn't believe how promptly I got windows, drivers, and games back up on the system it took me an afternoon to reinstall alternatively of a complete day. Looks boss. None presently. The speed won't make you lose your thoughts or something, but it is noticeably greater than my old 7200rpm drive, and the price of SSD's is so outrageous that this is actually your very best selection if you want a rapid HDD that will also have enough space to place all your stuff on it.

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received this drive christmas 2009, definitely have LOVED it because day one particular. win 7 pro x64 runs like Jerry Rice in his prime in the NFL, wisely, quick, and agile! no O.S. set up challenges, functionality degradation only apparently when over 75% of the storage capacity is filled. could be quieter.then again. My case is usually open and lying down on it's side. ( which means when you look at my gpu it's verticals and the motherboard is horizontal)..and I program to place this in an Antec Skeleton soon. NO eggs worth taking off. no other cons. Silverstone 850watt single 12v rail 70 psuMSI 785gm-e51 motherboardKingston Hyper X ddr3 1600mhz stock settings in biosAthlon II x4 Propus 3. quad core cpu stock settingsZalman 9900 ( red) cpu cooler/arctic silver fiveSuper WriteMaster sata II dvd burner (internalꅔgb HFLS Velociraptor hddLogitech DiNovo Media Laster setLogitech 4400 four.1 400 watt analog surround sound methodSamsung 2253bw 22: 2ms lcd monitorcoming soon: Mushkin 120 gb ssd, antec skeleton, zalman 9500a ( smaller than zalman 9900 to make certain it WILL fit in the Skeleton when still permitting the motherboard and its tray to slide in and out without having the cpu cooler hitting the bottom of the 250 bigboy fan shroud) and either the gtx580, gtx560, or gtx 470 video cardbtw Still no S.M.A.R.T errors on this drive and I have ( on objective) re installed win 7 3 occasions ( as soon as since I forgot to allow the hidden admin acct the other individuals just to clean up factors and repair the dvd playback difficulty in win 7 med

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Excellent functionality, stays cool. none

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My personal computer boots totally in 7 seconds, you inform me what the pros are. None.

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Worked about a day. Formatted under win7. Drive died.

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-๳.99!-10,000 RPM-16MB Cache -I was going to pick one more one particular up for raid but the cost went back up to 赉.99 what a bummer :(?

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Newegg's client service was eggcellent as usual. These drives have a lengthy history of getting incredibly reliable. I was quite surprised to be unable to format this one particular. The shipping container was undamaged and the drive in new situation, so I can only conclude this was a factory defect and not Neweggs fault. I have received a number of 'factory defective' things recently. All were very advisable, most ones I have used before. I am either quite unlucky or QA is declining.

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It did speed up load occasions on map modifications. DIED right after three months(almost to the day). I restart my personal computer because a game wouldn't begin up. I got a "disc study error" and now it's not letting me reformat it. I thought it was just negative luck for other reviewers. I even place on an additional HD cooler just to be totally sure there wouldn't be any troubles with it. It only had one particular format through it's whole life time. I will surely not purchase an additional 1 of these with out adding newegg's warranty. If I even make a decision to acquire another 1.

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i took out my 70 gb raptor w/vista 32 bit i had for five years and place this 300 gb raptor in w/ win 7 64-bit i like it runs cool and quiet.speed i cannot inform my disk data transfer rate was only 5.9 my lowest score on the pc i dont know if this is excellent or undesirable? or if it the challenging drive they are speaking about none got it for a tiny over 贝.00 bucks on sale thanks newegg

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Compare to SSD? no notion,A lot more space for the cost.Much better than typical really hard drive. Little noisy(not loud),not major deal for me. my rig:SN-S083F/BEBE(slim dvd burner),300Gb velociRaptor,intel core i7-870,MSI N460GTX cyclone,Zotac h55itx-A-E,SG05BB 450,MushkinEnhancedSilverline 8GB,Coolit Program Eco-r120,and so forth

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Its a drive For the cost, even at the holiday discount, it's not a great buy. I'll give it 2 eggs simply because it operates, but it does not rate any far better in overall performance tests than the WD 500 green that it replaced. ƕ.9 in W7) Following the disapointment of this drive, I went for a Essential 128 SSD.

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Good packaging; straightforward to migrate os (win 7 64, cloned drive with WD acronis lite from their web site). Good price at the Black friday Net-buster 贄. Finest Mech drive; good 5yr warrenty.Relatively quiet... Even throughout defrag. mechanical. So its not blazing speed sensible. Seat of the Pants has it on parr with my WD 1 TB black. So, prc/gb high if bougth out-suitable. Okay, its a good dirve with sufficient space for just about anybody at 300 gb, espeically if you hold your music, photo, and vid off this drive. On the other hand, the value isn't actually there when I think about the fact that a 1tb WD black drive does what feels like 90-95% at a lot much less $/gb. Win7 scores it the very same and I don't really feel the diff; that's why I had to return this puppy and stick to what I own already. Its a shame mainly because it cost 23 bucks to send it back, failed exp. However , it created more sense than keeping this guy.bottom line, if you want the greatest mech drive $/gb then this is a great one at the 100 prc point. Nonetheless, if you want to save some bucks and have a lot far more space, a 1TB cavier Black is exactly where you want to go, especially if you can't be bothered waiting for a cost drop. These are a pass at 169, and therefore the 4 egg rating (value).

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This drive is great. Fantastic value, good overall performance. Win 7 boots in about 15 seconds. Good stand-in until SSD drives grow to be less expensive per storage space. Shipping and Receiving took forever. I payed for the subsequent day saver for this drive, and it ended up taking longer that two printers ࿈lbs) that I ordered with common shipping at the very same time. UNACCEPTABLE. I am going to adhere to up with newegg. Granted I didn't request rush processing, I need to get the further ~บ I devote on subsequent day back on my card.

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Great cost/performance if it ran regularly. Following having this drive for more than a year all I can say is that I am disappointed with it's overall performance. My program would randomly freeze just before the drive would "click" and then the method would unfreeze. This caused numerous application crashes (i.e. encoding a film in Premier Elements, compiling an application in Visual Studio etc.) which became intolerable. Finally I decided to replace the drive with a 7200 RPM Seagate Barracuda drive and so far all the pausing difficulties have gone away. My difficulties may possibly just be a bad mixture of hardware (Gigabyte GA-EX58-UDP4 motherboard with all the newest drivers/bios updates + 12 GB of RAM) but if I actually wanted dependable, higher-overall performance drive these days I would look towards an SSD.

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Fast! I've usually heard Velociraptors were quickly, but I had no concept they had been this rapid! The price tag was ideal at 贄, compared to my other selections (SSD primarily) which were significantly additional high-priced and didn't supply considerably of a efficiency acquire. 300 gb is a restricted space. I've been forced to install my older, slower drive on my Computer so my wife has space for her factors like family members pictures and videos. I purchased this when it was on sale for 贄, and I'm kicking myself for not possessing bought two. At the initial sign of a price tag drop I'll be buying another to SLI it up and double each speed and space. Make confident when you're acquiring a Velociraptor that you're obtaining the one particular that's proper for you. If your mobo doesn't support 6b/sec, then don't acquire that 1 as you're just wasting your money. This was the one that was proper for me.

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works efficiency is no more quickly than a barracuda 500gb drive.i believed it would be more rapidly that a 5.9 each and every point else is no reduce than 7.5 it's a pup when it must be a wolf. i won't even comment on the ๠ price drop a few weeks right after i got mine, great timing i guess.