| | |  | Accessories & Supplies | Home » » » WESTERN DIGITAL WD1500HLFS Hard Drive | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | 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. | | | Features: | |
• Rotational Speed: 10,000 RPM
• Buffer Size: 16 MB
• Capacity: 150 GB
• Interface: SATA 3 Gb/s
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 5.79 inches | | Product Width:
| 4.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 1.03 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.08 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.45 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.54 inches | | Package Height:
| 3.62 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.41 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 11 reviews |
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VelociRaptor Fast burst speedNov 01, 2009
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.
150 GB VelociRaptorNov 01, 2009
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
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Get two of these and run together in RAID 0Sep 04, 2009
That's what I did. Amazing speed. Photoshop CS4 and all my brushes and plugins loads in less than 2 seconds. I can load a 100MB TIFF file in less than 2 seconds. Game levels like the first level in Crysis loads in about 5 seconds. This is a serious boost to your computer speed.
Getting two puts you at around 300GB and $350, while the 300GB version is about $300. Pay a little more and run two together at the same time in RAID 0 - you will basically double it's already fast speed. Then get a 1TB or more storage drive to store all your files. Keep the programs and Windows on the fast 10K RPM drives. You will not be disappointed!
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Great DriveAug 15, 2009
I love this drive. I've had the 300gb version for about a month. The drive is hands down faster than any drive I've ever had. Don't go through the hassle of scsi, it is not worth the price and grief. This drive just plugs in and your ready to go. I used Acronis to backup my old drive and to restore to this one. So easy. The drive never pauses and runs cooler than my old drive. SSD (solid state drives) are coming into their own, but won't be cost effective until mid 2010 in my opinion. Plus they still have the 80 mbps limit on writes. I develop databases so I use my pretty heavily. Very quiet too.
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Great drive.Jul 19, 2009
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.
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