WD VelociRaptor WD3000GLFS 300 GB Internal Hard Drive

Engineered for maximum speed! The VelociRaptor has evolved! PC enthusiasts' favorite 10,000 RPM SATA drive is now faster than ever, with 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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• 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

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  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

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  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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