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Western Digital WD1500ADFDRTL Raptor 150 GB 3.5-Inch SATA Hard Drive | List Price: $471.82
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Brand: Western Digital
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: 1 year warranty
Features: - Ultra-fast 150 GB 3.5-inch SATA internal hard drive designed for the enterprise environment
- 10,000 RPM spin speed; 1.5 Gb/s data transfer rate; 16 MB cache
- 1.2 million hours MTBF; extremely reliable performance
- Holds up to 42,000 digital photos; 37,000 MP3 files; 3,700 uncompressed CD-quality songs; 11 hours digital video; 66 hours DVD-quality video; 18 hours HD video
- 5-year limited warranty
Not good with G5 Mac [Posted on 2007-12-23]
Before buying any WD Raptor high performance hard drives for use in a Mac G5... search the WD website until you find the tech support article that says some are not compatible. I thought we were all past this sort of stupid problem, but apparently not. WD apparently held back on publicly admitting this for way too long.
The Raptor is "enterprise class" and marketed as being built for heavy usage. And it does SEEM to work ok in a Mac dual G5 tower. But under heavy usage it locks up the OS really badly. (Like every other week, but sometimes goes 80 days). This cost us untold grief & thousands of dollars before figuring it out 13 months later. Adding a PCI SATA card fixed the problem. WD blames Apple, but Apple says they are at SATA spec. Whatever, it was a horrible combo until we added the basic (bootable) Sonnet pci sata card to drive the WD Raptor drives. Do your homework & beware.
Best Drive out there for Normal PC's [Posted on 2008-02-02]
Concerning the previous review Steve Jobs always has to do things his own special way which in a Lot of cases is excellent but in this case he dropped the ball (IMO).
For all of us using PC's with Micropoop XP it's Faster than anything, works Flawlessly and you'll never see anything faster until 15K comes out. Remember too that SATA1 is virtually IDENTICAL to SATA2 in Real Transfer Rates not Theoretical.
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