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

Pros: --This drive is terrific - fast and incredibly reliable. I'm in my third year of use.

--RMA Process is excellent with WD. I RMAd my drive at about 2 years due to a partial failure and WD cross-shipped me a replacement with no questions asked.

--5 Year Warranty, parts and labor.

Cons: Price is still the same after 3 years!

Other Thoughts: Even with the developments in SSDs, you can't beat $160 for a fast traditional HDD with 160 GBs of storage.

Pros: Fast quiet NO PROBLEMS for 2 years. System has been up 24/7 rebooted less than 10 times for new hardware. We are a software development company so this drive gets worked hard. We used it as the OS dirve C:\ and put data on other drives.

Cons: I wish I purchased more of them. $79.99

Other Thoughts: I was not a Western Digital fan. I was burned by some Western Digital drives 10 yr. back.

Pros: Fast for a platter drive, never gave any trouble. Bought 2 for RAID 0

Cons: non really

Other Thoughts: I have now shelved these two drive and they will be used as spare back-ups. I've now gone to SSD for the main drive.

Pros: first time using hd like this before and its hell fast

Cons: none atm

Pros: Why would anyone buy an older, more expensive, 3Gb/s small-capacity VelociRaptor? To expand a RAID array with others of the identical model. These drives rock.

Cons: None

Pros: I've had this running as my boot drive in a PC I built about three years ago. I have had zero issues with the drive -- It is not a SSD but for mechanical I would recommend it to anyone. I've done a lot of gaming with it in addition to heavy day-to-day use. Very reliable. Buy it.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: Great quality, not a lot of noise for a 10,000 rpm drive. Love Western Digital.

Pros: Much faster than any other regular SATA drive

Cons: Can't keep up with SSD and SAS

Other Thoughts: These are not enterprise drives. as waynem mentioned, they're seeing problems when used in an enterprise market. The issue is because of the limited electronics on these drives..timeouts occur, and depending on your controller card, it might take them as being bad. I'll wager if you pull the drive, wait for it to spin down, then re-insert it, the controller card will see it as "good"

Pros: 2 years old and still running strong.

Cons: Can't keep up with the new SSD's.

Pros: I considered SSD but someone wasn't sober in the marketing department when they provided the price list.

I tried this as the next best thing for my build. Fastest transfer rate i've ever had on a machine. Quite happy with the the perfromance and the long track record of WD drives i've had with hardly issue.

Cons: None to speak of. Great bang for your buck and the next best thing to SSD drives.

Pros: fast for SATA 3.0 era hardware
...and that's it for PROs

Cons: loud
very small capacity for the price
very unreliable

Other Thoughts: I'm in IT and we've had about two dozen of these drives running in our production environment for the past few years. We've seen close to a 50% failure rate since the initial deployment and we spend too much time and money on the RMA process for each drive. At this point it probably makes more sense to get a current-generation 7200RPM drive and I suspect performance is in the same ballpark. By far we see more WD drives fail then all other brands combined so I would not recommend running a WD drive unless it's in some kind of redundant RAID setup - they're just not reliable, sorry WD.