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WD VelociRaptor 300GB Hard Drive

Engineered for maximum speed! WD VelociRaptor, is a member of our unique class of 10,000 RPM SATA hard drives, combines a SATA 3 Gb/s interface and 16 MB cache, to deliver performance that?s up to 35% faster than its speedy older brother.

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WD VelociRaptor 300GB Hard Drive

Interface
Interface Type	SATA II (3.0 Gbps)
Interface Connection	Serial ATA - 7 pin

Storage
Capacity	300 GB

General
Form Factor Width	3.5
normalized-Rotational Speed	10000
normalized-Capacity	300000
normalized-Cache Size	16
normalized-Access Time	4.2
Internal/External	Internal

Warranty
Warranty Information	5 Year Limited Warranty

Dimensions
Height	1.03 in
Width	4 in
Depth	5.79 in
Weight	1.08 lbs

More Info
URL	http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=459&language=en

Performance
Cache Size	16 MB
Sustained Transfer Rate	120 MBytes/sec
Host Transfer Rate	300 Mbps
MTBF	1400000 hour(s)
Rotational Speed	10000 RPM

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WD VelociRaptor 300GB Hard Drive

Reviewed by: rickbtx

12-24-08

Duration of ownership: 8 Months

Strengths: Super fast, quiet, cool

Weaknesses:could be larger maybe but in RAID 0 = 600mb

Overall Evaluation: I have 2 of these in RAID 0, HD Tach consistently bench at 365.7 MB/s On Nvidia 790i FTW motherboard with 9.64 drivers. Never saw a drive with that speed before
Reviewed by: quietkiki

10-27-08

Duration of ownership: 2 Months

Strengths: fast,cool,quiet

Weaknesses:pin at the wrong place,can't not fit in to sata bracket and mac pro.Only good for sata cable user

Overall Evaluation: If you are use sata cable than you shold have no problem with this oneVelociRaptor 300GB Hard Drive have a new version WD3000HLFS that sata pin at the right place so you can fit in to stat bractet
Reviewed by: cswake

07-27-08

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: Speed, (lack of) noise, and (lack of) heat.

Weaknesses:Price.

Overall Evaluation: Western Digital should have called the drive "the Paradox". I never thought it could have been done, but my computer is running the fastest drive in the world *and* one of the quietness and coolest. Regardless of whether this is a by-product of the shrink to a 2.5" form-factor, they did it and no one else comes close.All of this realistically has to come at a price, $1/GB at the time of this post. In contrast, the Western Digital 10EACS has about the same level of acoustics, heat dissipation, but severe lack of speed at $.20/GB. Is it worth the 5x premium? I say yes.
Reviewed by: pcstore4you

07-20-08

Duration of ownership: 10 Days

Strengths: Very Fast and Quiet!

Weaknesses:Price is a little bit high.

Overall Evaluation: I had a raptor 150GB for about one year and when I upgrade my system with velociraptor, I almost can not hear the noise from the hard drive any more! And the speed for loading game and windows xp is improved by about 15% due to the SATA II interface, although that is a little bit below my expectation. If you want a fast and quiet drive this is the best choice. I hope WD will release 150GB version velociraptor in the future which will make this drive affordable for more people.
Reviewed by: mjpsmith

07-13-08

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: Amazingly fast and quiet

Weaknesses:None so far

Overall Evaluation: I installed a drive and then the software for Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit. When I booted my computer, I saw the familiar green bar going back and forth, and it suddenly stopped. I thought that it was going to reboot, but what happened was it went right into Windows because the drive is so fast. Every time I use this drive, I am amazed at its speed and functionality.

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Western Digital WD VelociRaptor Internal Hard Drive

Western Digital's 10,000-rpm, 300GB high-performance hard drive chomps through the competition.

Western Digital picked an appropriate name for its new 10,000-rpm (rotations per minute) hard drive. Dubbed the WD VelociRaptor, this new drive roared through the PC World Test Center's performance tests in April 2008, besting all other models in the field at that time. (We have subsequently updated our Top 10 Internal Hard Drives chart.)

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