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Western Digital VelociRaptor WD1500HLFS 150GB 10000 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

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the fastest sata2 drive currently available on the market
— 6/19/2009
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Fast drive, once u go WD u dont go back, however ive never had anything else due to the fact that WD has never failed me ...
— Bug257 6/2/2010


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  • Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (parts): 5 years
  • Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (labor): 5 years


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The Western Digital VelociRaptor WD1500HLFS 150GB Hard Drive offers top-of-the-line 10000RPM high-capacity for your PC. Its breakthrough 16MB cache makes this hard drive suitable for high-performance home and business computing, as it can handle high-end data-intensive and multimedia applications.

This hard drive boasts a killer speed to deliver mind-bending performance. Not only are they 35% faster than the previous generation WD Raptor drives, but they also beat out all other competitors in the field. With 1.4 million hours MTBF, these drives have the highest available reliability rating on a high capacity SATA drive. In addition, the WD VelociRaptor consumes 35% less power than the previous generation of WD Raptor. With high performance but affordable price you need to extend your system storage with it today!

  • newegg High Performance Hard Drive The bare drive features a high performance 10000RPM hard drive with a total capacity of 150GB so you can store your movies, music, applications and documents for easy sharing with your friends and even back up your system.
  • newegg SATA 3.0 Gb/s Interface The 3.5” SATA internal notebook hard drive features the next-generation SATA II interface supporting up to 3.0 Gb/s data transfer rates, Native Command Queuing (NCQ) and hot-pluggable point-to-point connections for optimum performance, efficiency, convenience and flexibility.

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Learn more about the Western Digital WD1500HLFS

Model
Brand
Western Digital
Series
VelociRaptor
Model
WD1500HLFS
Packaging
Bare Drive
Performance
Interface
SATA 3.0Gb/s
Capacity
150GB
RPM
10000 RPM
Cache
16MB
Average Seek Time
4.2ms
Average Write Time
4.7ms
Average Latency
3ms (nominal)
Physical Spec
Form Factor
3.5"
Features
Features
IcePack mounting frame: the 2.5-inch WD VelociRaptor is enclosed in a backplane-ready 3.5-inch enterprise-class mounting frame with a built-in heat sink.
Manufacturer Warranty
Parts
5 years limited
Labor
5 years limited

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  • 9/9/2010 4:59:27 AM
  • Tech Level: above average
  • Ownership: more than 1 year
1 out of 5 eggsFailure after 2 years

Pros: It is great to have a 5 year warranty, but I am beginning to think they need it in order to keep customers.

Cons: It worked for two years then went bad. I am RMA'ing as we speak.

Other Thoughts: Very disappointed. I still have the 7200 speed Hard Drive that I put back in and still work.

These run hot. I am wondering if this was the basic issue. I am not sure.

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  • Wolfdale90
  • 9/8/2010 9:49:47 PM
  • Tech Level: above average
  • Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
  • Verified Owner
5 out of 5 eggsVelociRaptors~ Love'em

Pros: + Looks sexy
+ Love the 'IcePack'
+ Runs pretty quiet
+ Runs nice and cool
+ Awesome in Raid0
++ Definately faster than my previous Seagate 1.5 TB Barracuda @ 7200 rpm

HD Tune (Read)
+ Transfer rate: 170~ MB/s
+ Access time: 5.33 ms
+ Burst rate: 160~ MB/s

Cons: They're not solid states...[?]

Other Thoughts: +1 to Newegg's awesome shipping!
Free shipping and got them the next day (NJ->NY)! ^^
Also, they were on sale for $99 so had to get two!
I have them in Raid0 and I can definately see a performance increase (although WEI maintains the same 5.9 rating... -_-)

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  • thisple
  • 9/8/2010 1:59:23 PM
  • Tech Level: above average
  • Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
  • Verified Owner
5 out of 5 eggsLove this drive!

Pros: Easy Install, Easy Formatting, and Great Results! We put this thing in an old school Dell d3000 desktop, and it now runs windows xp faster than ever. This machine is used by our admin asst, and she now doesn't complain about the speed of her system when using programs like ACT!, MS Office and Peachtree.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: much cheaper for us to buy this hard drive than to buy a new computer.

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  • Netforce
  • 9/5/2010 10:30:00 AM
  • Tech Level: above average
  • Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
  • Verified Owner
2 out of 5 eggsGood drives?

Pros: Drives are def fast! Grabbing 2 of these isn't unresonable money wise. Once raided, you approach speeds of most SSDs at a resonable price!

Cons: My experience has yielded my opinion of them unreliable. I bought two with the intention of striping them together. Raided easily but one of my drives failed 3 times. I'm writing this to give fair warning to all prospecting buyers! Heating seems to be an issue even with the attached heat sink they provide. Didn't go liquid cooling (yet) but I have the antec 902 case so cooling shouldn't be an issue considering the amount of air flow this case pushes. Two out of the three failures my raid manager reported a drive failure, and failed to boot a few shut downs after. RMA's start adding up after many replacements!

Other Thoughts: Western digital was unwilling to return drives for money (replacement only). Working in retail you see this request come up a lot, and I find it unfair to push this back on them except I've run through the RMA process multiple times and have still not received a stable, working product. So needless to say I will be doing a final RMA on BOTH drives and will be marketing my two drives. Ended up purchasing http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233107 as a replacement to having 2 of these raptors raided.

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  • Bob
  • 9/2/2010 7:42:32 AM
  • Tech Level: above average
  • Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
  • Verified Owner
5 out of 5 eggsStill the Fasest SATA Drive Out There

Pros: Very Fast Drive. My computer boots in about in 20 seconds.
Neweggs shipping is great! Received the drive the next day.

Cons: Sorry Newegg, this is a con towards you. This is the second drive I purchased and every time I buy one it goes on sale the next week when I do not need it. This has happened twice now.

Other Thoughts: My wife's hard drive went out and she wanted the same thing that I had.
Motherboard: MSI K9N4 SLI AMD 5000+
Memory: Corsair XMS 2 X 1GB
Video: Evga 8600GTS 256MB
Case: Antec Sonata 3 w/500W power supply

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  • Re-engineer
  • 8/30/2010 6:25:47 PM
  • Tech Level: above average
  • Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
  • Verified Owner
5 out of 5 eggszoom zoom

Pros: Four in RAID 0 on ICH9R controller HD Tach v 3.0.4.0 Windows XP Pro SP3 Burst speed 3850.8 MB/s Random access 8.1 milliseconds CPU utilization 7% Average read 368.5 MB/s Cache and write back enabled Raid array not yet defragged after copying back to the array from the SSD

VS

Single OCZ Vertex 2 60GB burst speed 245.4 MB/s random access .2 ms CPU utilization 2 % Average read 171.3 MB/s

Cons: HD Tach is outdate. need another bench tool No beef with the drives though

Other Thoughts: Going to put windows 7 on here so i can trim the SSD and maybe get anorther SSD in RAID but running out of SATA connectors...maybe a RAID card...but the reviews don't impress me

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  • 8/29/2010 11:41:25 AM
  • Tech Level: above average
  • Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
  • Verified Owner
5 out of 5 eggs

Pros: very fast hardrive works quietly

Cons: no cons

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  • 8/26/2010 4:17:07 PM
  • Tech Level: above average
  • Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
  • Verified Owner
5 out of 5 eggsRaptor HDD

Pros: Newegg had this HDD for 30% off, so I got it SUPER cheap. I have noticed a huge performance improvement from my 7200rpm SATA drive.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: None

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  • 8/26/2010 7:10:51 AM
  • Tech Level: above average
  • Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
  • Verified Owner
5 out of 5 eggsWestern Digital VelociRaptor 150GB HDD

Pros: Excellent HDD - fast, quiet, great install and, most of all - Smooth! And, very, very well priced.

Cons: None!

Other Thoughts: We took the remains of a Dell and started with a new case, motherboard, processor, memory, etc, etc and made the last minute decision to get a 10,000 RPM VelociRaptor. We use the existing 640GB HDD for data storage. The whole system turned out great and the UPS shipping/tracking system is outstanding! Great job.

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  • Random Kaoz
  • 8/25/2010 4:34:05 PM
  • Tech Level: above average
  • Ownership: more than 1 year
5 out of 5 eggsThe Real Break Down

Pros: 3 years going strong. Gaming, 3d rendering and everyday downloading and file transfers. Quiet for such a fast drive. Worth the money and you will notice the speed increase right away. Perfect for file transfering and any type of scanning tool. Boot speeds have hit 19 seconds in an xp, core 2 duo 2.8 - 2GB RAM 800 envirment. At least 24 seconds windows 7, i5 4GB DDR3 1066.

Cons: Honestly heat would be a concern if by any chance your planning on putting this in a normal case with another hard drive above it. I wouldn't recommend doing that. Spend a lilttle more get a case that blows air on the HDD and put this one on top. I went over board and got extra cooling fans that hook up to the HDD, it performs even better.

Other Thoughts: If you need an idea of how fast these drives are compaired to the 7,200. The best way to discribe it would be putting dial up vs DSL. or loging on with AOL vs double clicking firefox. The speed is that noticable. Once you use 10K you won't go back to 7,200 i promise.

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