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- Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (parts): 5 years
- Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (labor): 5 years
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Western Digital has meant bleeding-edge hard drive development, and the Raptor X is a killer example. As they like to say, it’s the first drive with a view! Why? To let see the 10,000 RPM spindle speed and learn the real meaning of “motion blur” as it zips by faster than you can see. The drive uses state-of-the-art technology, with special polycarbonate lenses and carbon nanotube fasteners to allow you to be in on the action.
Why is this speed increase so important? Any time you perceive a slow down in your system, it’s mostly likely due to the seek time in getting your HD to find whatever it is that’s asked for, either by you, or some game or video. While manufacturers have been building larger and larger drives, they weren’t any faster, and so it was taking longer and longer to search through them. Western Digital has offered a solution – use smaller drives at faster rates! When you combine the reliability and speed of the new WD drives, you see an unbeatable combination certain to be wanted by every computer enthusiast around! Face it: you want it for the cool value, but do you need it? Yes!
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This is a great bag.
- Pros: This silk bag is simply amazing. It's so soft. It also comes with a free hard drive in it that's pretty good too. But the bag, man, you gotta get one.
- Cons: Silk bag has no cons.
- Other Thoughts: Silk bag.
The Raptor has Landed
- Pros: Excellent Speed, especially in a RAID 0. Load Windows and other programs in less time. Proper NCQ support this time. I loved my 74's and I'm loving these.
- Cons: It is of a limited size for the price, and they run warmer than your typical drive.
- Other Thoughts: SATA I or II (3Gbps) really doesn't matter. All those 3Gbps Hard Discs can't fill a SATA I bus anyway.
| Model | WD1500AHFD |
| Interface | SATA 1.5Gb/s |
| Capacity | 150GB |
| RPM | 10000 RPM |
| Cache | 16MB |
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Nice Drive
- Pros: Nice speed. Been working for over a year with no problems.
- Cons: A bit pricey for the size. Very very loud when it starts reading/writing.
Raptor X good stuff
- Pros: Very fast access times and good amount of room on a 10,000 Rpm drive. A must have for gamers!
- Cons: A bit loud and runs hot however well worth it.
- Other Thoughts: Get a hard drive cooler with this bad boy!
Good Drive but noisy
- Pros: Fast & Wonderful
- Cons: After having a pendium 4 lap top that sounded much like Jet engine, I wanted a computer that was a silent killer. I really spared no expense, but found this drive to pop and grind often.
I cant sleep with it on because of the grinding (And not the WoW bot gold grinding type of grinding either)
- Other Thoughts: I am planning on loading the Mac operating system onto my bigger, quiter, slower drive for watching movies and non-gaming activies so that it will run silently..its just a shame I have to do this with such an expensive drive
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| Brand |
Western Digital |
| Series |
Raptor X |
| Model |
WD1500AHFD |
| Packaging |
Bare Drive |
| Performance |
| Interface |
SATA 1.5Gb/s |
| Capacity |
150GB |
| RPM |
10000 RPM |
| Cache |
16MB |
| Average Seek Time |
4.6ms |
| Average Write Time |
5.2ms |
| Average Latency |
2.99ms |
| Physical Spec |
| Form Factor |
3.5" |
| Features |
| Features |
WD Raptor X focuses a large, crystal-clear lens on the drive to let you see into the inner workings and witness the drive in action.
Crystalline polycarbonate lens — provides clarity, structural integrity, electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection, durability and chemical neutrality necessary for the highest performance and reliability.
Native Command Queuing (NCQ) — increases data transfer in high-performance multi-processor, multi-threaded environments.
Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF ) — optimizes operation and performance when drives are used in vibration-prone multi-drive systems. Patent pending. |
| Manufacturer Warranty |
| Parts |
5 years limited |
| Labor |
5 years limited |
Introduction
Western Digital has meant bleeding-edge hard drive development, and the Raptor X is a killer example. As they like to say, it’s the first drive with a view! Why? To let see the 10,000 RPM spindle speed and learn the real meaning of “motion blur” as it zips by faster than you can see. The drive uses state-of-the-art technology, with special polycarbonate lenses and carbon nanotube fasteners to allow you to be in on the action.
Why is this speed increase so important? Any time you perceive a slow down in your system, it’s mostly likely due to the seek time in getting your HD to find whatever it is that’s asked for, either by you, or some game or video. While manufacturers have been building larger and larger drives, they weren’t any faster, and so it was taking longer and longer to search through them. Western Digital has offered a solution – use smaller drives at faster rates! When you combine the reliability and speed of the new WD drives, you see an unbeatable combination certain to be wanted by every computer enthusiast around! Face it: you want it for the cool value, but do you need it? Yes!
Highlights
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Crystalline polycarbonate lens
The WD Raptor X WD1500AHFD features a large, crystal-clear crystalline polycarbonate lens to reveal the inner workings and the drive in action. A world’s first, the lens provides structural integrity, electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection, durability and chemical neutrality necessary for the highest performance and reliability.
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10,000 RPM and 16 MB Cache
Featuring an industry-leading 10,000 RPM spindle speed and 16 MB cache, the WD Raptor X WD1500AHFD delivers killer speed and enterprise-class reliability.
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SATA 1.5 Gb/s with NCQ
Next-generation SATA interface supports up to 1.5 Gb/s data transfer rates, Native Command Queuing (NCQ) and hot-pluggable point-to-point connections to allow the WD Raptor X WD1500AHFD to deliver optimum performance, efficiency, convenience and flexibility.
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WD SecureConnect Ready
The WD Raptor X WD1500AHFD supports the WD SATA drive-exclusive SecureConnect SATA cable to greatly strengthen the drive-to-cable connection with added physical stability.
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Quick Specs
| Capacity | 150GB |
| RPM | 10000 RPM |
| Cache | 16MB |
| Form Factor | 3.5" |
| Average Latency | 2.99ms |
| Average Seek Time | 4.6ms |
| Average Write Time | 5.2ms |
| Interface | SATA 1.5Gb/s |
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6x Winner of Customer Choice Award - Internal Hard Drives
Reviewed By: Sadiki on 7/9/2007
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
