Western Digital Raptor Hard Drive - 74GB - 10000rpm - Serial ATA/150 - Serial ATA - Internal | List Price: $230.04
Discount Price: $159.95
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Brand: Western Digital
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: 5 years warranty
Features: - WESTERN DIGITAL RAPTOR HARD DRIVE - 74GB - 10000RPM - 150MBPS SERIAL ATA - SERIAL ATA/150 - SERIAL
- ATA - INTERNAL
WD Not for Vista. [Posted on 2007-03-08]
Western Digital says that they do not support Vista. This is what there tech support told me. and that I should get another O.S. I could not beleive that when the guy told me that. So, instead I bought a Seagate Hard drive. Bye to Western Digital.
I would still recommend a bigger 16 MB cache hard drive [Posted on 2007-06-27]
All you will get is a whole lotta noise, and the speed is really not all that , even when I overclocked the sucker. My other PC using a Maxtor 16 MB cache 320 GB Sata 2 hard drive does way better for the same price.
Don't waste you money, for the price I paid I could have bought me a 500GB hard drive with all the partitions I ever dreamed off.
Great, fast drive [Posted on 2007-07-13]
While this drive does produce a bit more noise than many 7,200RPM drives, consider that it's spinning at 10,000RPM, so more noise is to be expected I would think. And, of course, it also gets a little warmer than the normal hard drive so make sure your case has proper cooling. The rotation speed makes a difference, even a noticeable one. I saw many benchmarks attesting to this fact before purchasing the drive myself, but I knew it was worth it for myself when I saw how fast Windows loaded with this drive compared to the 7,200 RPM drive I had before
If you play games with long load times, move lots of files around, or just want Windows to boot up faster, this drive is worth the price.
Fastest non SCSI drive available..... [Posted on 2008-02-25]
Built several performance systems using these drives in a RAID 0, dual Raptor drive configuration, with a generic sata for backup/ storeage. The only reason to get these drives is pure speed, as the $/gb is not competitive with generic 7200 rpm drives.
That said, typical throughputs (as benchmarked by HDtach) with the boxes I've built are ~135 megabytes per second, sustained (after the disk cache is emptied) over a simulated full disk write - far faster than the typical throughput of ~ 50 mb/ second of a typical sata. Anything disk intesive loads ridiculously fast. Well worth the money, esp. in a RAID 0 config. for the demanding user thats willing to pay the extra money for the performance gains.
Pro's: Very fast, with great life expectancy (MTBF of 1.2 million hours) Large cache
Cons: Expensive for the capacity, louder and hotter than a typical 7200 rpm drive (although this should be expected, given the 10k rpm)
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