Western Digital VelociRaptor 150GB 3.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

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Worked like a charm appropriate out of the box on W7 new method as main drive. Started to get strange begin up hangups about ten months in. Shortly there immediately after CheckDisk ran on start up and then ran consecutively on 1 boot up though Explorer failed due to corrupted file. Western Digital's Information Lifeguard scan on "Quick" found no errors, but "Extended" located unrepairable harm. Swap out was reasonably painless (although out ป return shipping) with WD. They provide a replacement devoid of the original - even though there is a expense hold on your credit card, but you have 30 days to return. Replacement was sent 2nd Day Air. Also they allow you to purchase UPS return at discounted rate - salve on the wound.

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Running two of these in RAID and speeds strategy that of SSD. Little less cash and stiill a nice upgrade from run of the mill 7200RPM HDD's. Have my concerns about life expectancy of this product.

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These drives replaced my old 74 GB raptors that Ive had in the similar RAID 5 config on my Nvidia Nforce board. These drives are fast....and in fact alot a lot more quiet that my old 74 GB drives. I can barely hear the R/W heads parking or unparking. None but

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10K driveFaster than 7200 WD Caviar Black (see con) Only 150GB for 100 bucksSlower than most MLC SSD, especailly the average seeking time I have each this 10K drive and Intel X25-E SSD. Below Linux, this 10K drive can not handle enormous I/O operations of my crazy quantum system and lead to a lot of I/O wait state, although intel's SSD works smoothly. If you want quick speed and far better efficiency, and don't want to bother RAID, head for SSD.

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Very great Raid- performance and also very effortless to set up.Very cool for a 10k hdd ㅔ-30C If you have super duper hearing then you could complain about the noise of two raptors, but you can\'t hear them whilst gaming or listening to music. Windows complete restart time on these two drives is 78sec from shutdown to fully loaded up, very good improvement from a 640gb WD black

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This drive is almost everything one could want in a SATA drive. Extremely rapidly, incredibly quiet and not outrageously priced, the WD VelociRaptor series is an exceptional choice for a major OS drive or any other application exactly where read/write speed it essential. The very best part about the150GB model is it's size who requirements a lot more than 150GB for their OS (or OS's). Plus, the five year warranty tends to make this drive an investment. Who else warranties their drives for half a decade?I've personally had 3 of these drives and not had one poor knowledge. I recommend this series to all of my customers, close friends & loved ones any time I'm undertaking a technique upgrade. No complaints from me. This is the finest challenging drive for the dollars out there, IMHO.

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10000 RPM, 16MB Cache, Rapid! None It is a bit loud compared to my caviar green and ssd, but not as loud as caviar black. I have two of these in RAID strictly for my games and they are smoking quickly.

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Efficiency raise from old 7,200rpm WD. Price tag: A a lot better value than SSD's. Not an SSD For the people today who are complaining about only slight performance increases, hold in mind that if you're replacing a drive that's currently pretty rapid you're not going to see much of a difference. Be realistic about your expectation.

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Excellent speed for a 150GB drive, runs cool for the speed. Thankfully has a very good RMA period! I purchased 2 original Raptors (not VelociRaptors) from Newegg a few years back. One particular drive failed immediately after about a year the other 1 right after 18 months or so plugged in to an HP (Hardware) Raid Controller. Sent both of them to WD they sent me back this model.1 was DOA and had to be RMA'd again. When I got it back I put each of them on a inexpensive Through computer software RAID card. One died following about 3 months (click of death), the other showed Smart errors.So I RMA'd them both once again this month, this means one has been replaced two instances now and the other three instances. (Note: My experience with this model was employing a recertified model, your outcomes may possibly vary with a new 1)Two stars simply because while the drives did not function for me, WD has tried to make it correct additional than once. Not every single business is as very good about RMA's. These factors are destined for on the net auction, I hope others have superior luck than I did.Personally, I picked up some 1TB RE three's and haven't looked back. WD does make very good drives, but I had HORRID luck attempting to RAID these items working with each Hardware and Software program (FakeRAID) in two separate computer systems.I have talked to quite a few individuals that have employed them as single drives with zero troubles though. As a final note, if the version you got was an WD1500HLFS-01G6U0 be advised there is a firmware bug.Do a web search for "WD1500HLFS firmware" for facts.

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Awesome drive!! Paid for overnight shipping, took 2 days from time it shipped to my door. Wouldn't use FedEx overnight once more..

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Boot up time is a lot more rapidly when i evaluate it to my old seagate 7200. Games load up a lot more rapidly and thats fundamentally all what i wanted out of a raptor. not genuinely a con but i am going to blame windows 7 for this 1. The drive cant go past a 5.9 rating on the Windows Index. If you want a larger rating put atleast two or three of these in a raid config or get an ssd but this is not truly a con. The drive is performing to its full prospective.

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Wonderful drives. I have much more than ten of them in unique boxes, running for about a year. So far none have failed, but 1 had to be returned simply because of poor sectors. They sustain 125MB/s read/write on outer edges of the disk, and about 7.5ms average access time. This model is aging and has been outperformed by 600GB model with larger platter density.

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Fast for a drive with moving parts. not as rapidly as a SSD drive. Will be replacing my velocipRaptor drive and going SSD. It's a assload of funds, but it's worth it.

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Blazing rapidly, on its personal. Pc takes about 30 seconds to boot from time of BIOS loading Windows to being completely loaded. (opening all apps such as Steam, AV/Firewall and a couple of other apps). Completely & utterly smashes my old 5400 RPM WD 'Green' drive. The time it takes games to begin is about half. I didn't time them before, but it took a few seconds for the logo to appear on some games. Now as soon as I release the mouse button from the second click, the logo is on screen. It's not mega-large capacity? Doesn't fit numerous games on it.. To the guy beneath me- Windows 7 recognizes that it's a disk-drive and locks the top score at 5.9. You can have 1 of these at 5.9, and go with RAID0 and it will nevertheless be at 5.9. Windows lies. Would I buy this drive once again? Heck yes. Will go RAID0 soon if I can figure out how to do it.

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Works like it ought to. No problems yet... Not actually all that quick for the price tag and limited area. Can be loud at instances. There are other drives that are just as superior. Maybe not rather as rapid but humans will not notice the difference. Samsung challenging drives are close in performance for much less cash and far additional GB. Barely a distinction in between this and my Spinpoint F3 HD502HJ. I would not purchase this once more unless far more efficiency is offered.

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Fast 10,000 RPM, wonderful price, big adequate cache. The spec are all you need to have to know. We want larger drives with these specs from WD Ƒ+ TB). Great drive other than I recently had to return it below warranty. The drive failed and the Intelligent data indicated an outrageous reallocated sector count. Luckily I just moved my data to the 300 GB version of this drive and didn't lose something other than time. WD promptly replaced the drive. This goes to show that you must usually acquire drives with a 5 year warranty. It failed just below the five years.Moreover, I own the 74 GB, 150 GB, and 300 GB version of the VelociRaptor. The 74 GB is the oldest (about 7 years) and nonetheless working effectively.

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Operates precisely as advertised. I use it as my Windows drive that I use for games. None so far I will purchase yet another a single in the future.

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ten,000 rpm, sata II and 16mb cache If you dont strategy on making use of raid there is actually no point to devote the income on this drive, save your income and purchase 7200 I actually didnt see any difference in speed amongst this and 7200 till I hooked up two these of these guys in raid almost twice as rapidly and even writes rapidly than my ssd.

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Good challenging drive, plenty of space, trust me 150 GB is lots for most users, if you require much more, just get those 1ǘ TB hard drive. So a lot faster than my old 36 GB Raptor, yes Raptor. There is a slight improvement and it installed win xp in half the time it did my old raptor did. If you will need a rapidly drive and have the funds, invest it on the SSD. They're do circles around this drive, if I could return it, I would for the SSD. So far so very good, nevertheless operating and no dilemma. Antec 750w Blue Fulltower (combo deal)i7-930 w/ OEM fan from e bay 񘝴GB G. SkillsX58 Sabertooth MotherboardATI Radeon HD5770

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Really nice drives, operating 4 drives raid with zero problems going on 1 year. Do some reading on the raid write size just before you jump in.... Went with these instead of SSD, fantastic choice. Windows experience index is 6.7 with these drives, greater than my last system with 4 SSD drives and only five.9, not that windows score is something to hang your hat on. Extremely massive heat sinks on every drive, aways a good option with WD............ Not free of charge... prepared to go with 6... technique = corsair d700 case, 4x WD 150s in RAID , 2X nvidia 485s SLI, 2x Asus 27" hdmi displays, windows 7 64 Pro, Asus p6x58D premium MB, 12gigs DDR3 dominator ram

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(Silent computing enthusiast here). I was totally blown away by how quiet these are for 10k rpm drives. I've employed initially gen WD Raptor drives (loud!) and both Blue and Black WDs, and this Velociraptor is substantially much more quiet than all of them. At least for spindle noise. Seek noise is louder than the Black series, but nonetheless much more quiet than the first gen Raptor. The seek noise isn't as low-pitch as the Black series, but it's undoubtedly additional audible. ---- As for efficiency, 3 of them in a RAID array, brief-stroked to 30GB each and every, on an X58-based board (Intel ICH10 southbridge/RAID controller): great write bandwidth of 300-400MB/sec and wonderful read speeds of 200-300MB/sec on common, based upon file size, and so on. Finest of all, seek times were in the low 5.x ms range (you won't get rated average seek occasions of 4.2, which is nicely identified). They can't compare to SSDs in a RAID for reads, but Velocirpators in a RAID can give you dependable, rapid writes much better than a single SSD. Warranty will be void if you take the drives out of the "ice pack" coolerǙ.5" adapter, such as placing them in a third-party silencer/cooler. Also, to get the Velociraptors to execute well all the time needs some short-stroking (making their obtainable partition or RAID array size less than their complete capacity). The greatest sweet spot on these 150GB models is at 30GB, even though a decent sweet spot can extend out to 45GB. What occurs is that the heads of the drive move towards the middle of the platters when it gets closer to information stored close to its capacity limits. This implies information is being read considerably slower than the outer edge (at the starting of the drive). So a WD Black will have greater efficiency than a Velociraptor when they both read information at the finish of the drives. So we can compensate by shortstroking the drives, which sacrifices capacity for performance. But I would only do that if you're employing this as a boot drive or in a RAID array with striping. Naturally they're no SSD, but that's precisely why I purchased these. I had 8 SSDs Ɣ OCZ Vertex two and four OCZ Vertex) in RAID arrays, one particular for my Windows 7 install and the other for game/applications. I'm operating the built-in RAID controller on the ICH10 southbridge of an EVGA X58 motherboard. Well, each updating SSD firmware and making use of wiper/secure erase/sanitary erase/TRIM (all upkeep we should carry out each so often) is impossible on OCZ SSDs in a RAID. The RAID ought to be temporarily broken or the drives attached elsewhere in order to do all of this in AHCI mode. On top rated of that, all sorts of tweaks need to be completed to SSDs when an O/S is installed on them. I've even seen weirdness (mini-freezes and lengthy freezes or fluke BSODs) when running Windows 7 off of a RAIDed array of SSDs that all passed verification. In brief, I went back to HDDs, and when it comes to HDDs Velociraptor is the fastest. The HLHX is at present the fastest, but the HLFS (this a single) isn't that diverse.

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A wonderful gamers mechanical drive. Games load superfast, framerates increased two-three fold, boot time is like the wind. Bottlenecked and destroyed by low-cost hardware. this goes for all you noobs who feel its okay to location a 10k rpm high volume high traffic HDD on floozey motherboards and cheap china created raid cards. @dataless tenቸ񳏊 2ᚷᛣ PM Tech Level: High5Ǜ <-- apparentley not genuine\ out of five eggsRating: 2ǛNot worth the HypeCons: I bought 2 original Raptors (not VelociRaptors) from Newegg a few years back. One drive failed following about a year the other one following 18 months or so plugged in to an HP (Hardware) Raid Controller. Sent each of them to WD they sent me back this model.1 was DOA and had to be RMA'd once more. When I got it back I put each of them on a cheap Via software program RAID card. One died after about 3 months (click of death), the other showed Intelligent errors.So I RMA'd them each again this month, this signifies one has been replaced two times now and the other 3 instances.(Note: My experience with this model was using a recertified model, your outcomes could vary with a new a single)TO YOU I SAY Quit @#$%^& Employing Low-cost RAID CARDS AND TERRIBLE MOTHERBOARDS AND YOU WILL SOLVE UR Difficulties. NOOOOOOOOOOOB

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Quite rapidly! Scored 7.2ms access time @ 186MB/s.Still only 5.9 in Win7 but mechanical drives won't rate any higher.A great deal! Value went up ฤ soon after I purchased it. None I must have gotten two for RAID

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Its pretty quickly, but doesnt seem like its considerably quicker than my 7200rpm tough drive. Works perfectly none so far would recommend far better packaging from the factory, just doesnt feel like they put much work into it.

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Got it for ๚ bucks on black friday. Quickly, quiet, and cool. none