Fujitsu MBA3300RC 300GB 15000 RPM 16MB Cache Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: I was worried about warranty because of post below so I looked it up, its 5 years (No OEM exclusion or addendum), here is the quote from the website (I would put the link but that violates the newegg rules): "5 years (from date of purchase)." I bought 2 and put them in a Raid 0 configuration on a Marvel SAS embedded contoller on a Asus P6T6 WS Revolution motherboard and I am very pleased so far.

Cons: None

Pros: ~2-3 minute Vista x64 install time, wow ~4000 MB/s burst rate in Raid 0, decimates Veloci-Raptors Did I mention faaaast? Way fast!

Cons: 45 minute veryify process 1.5 hour low level format A little noisy (small sacrafices for performance)

Overall Review: My rig (~18500 3DMark06 as is no overclock/tuning): ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition 965 Nehalem 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme 1366 RT CPU Cooler Innovation Cooling IC Diamond 7 Carat Thermal Compound (Raid 0) 2x Fujitsu MBA3300RC 300GB 15000 RPM 16MB Cache SAS Hard Drive (4053.4 MB/s Burst, decimates Veloci-Raptors) 2x CORSAIR DOMINATOR 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Triple Channel Kit Desktop Memory EVGA 01G-P3-1281-AR GeForce GTX 285 1GB 512-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 ABS Tagan BZ Series BZ1100 1100W ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply SAMSUNG Black 22X DVD±R/CD±R 2MB Cache SATA DVD Burner with LightScribe Antec Twelve Hundred Black Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case Acer P243WAid Black-Silver 24" 2ms(GTG) HDMI Widescreen LCD Monitor APC BACK-UPS XS 1500VA LCD 120V Logitech X-240 25 Watts 2.1 Speakers

Pros: high speed and performance. works flawless

Cons: very noisy over power my 10 fans. but that just means its working.

Overall Review: I would be disappointed if a 1,000hp viper sounded like a fiat! Core i7 920 – 4 ghz asus p6t6 ws revolution corsair dominator 12 gb antec 1200 bluray burner tri sli gtx 285sc edition 2x 300 gb 1500 rpm sas connection hard drive raid 0 pc power and cooling 1200w exos 2.5 liquid cooling designated cpu erm 2k3u liquid cooling motherboard and tri sli 3,000 w dissapating heat nvidia 3d bundle Klipsch reference series 3.1 monster stage 4 clean power

Pros: Fast. Quick RMA replacement through Toshiba.

Cons: Doesn't play nicely with Dell workstations. More precisely their PERC 6/i adapter. On boot up I get messages in the event viewer that the drives are not certified.

Overall Review: More recently these drives have been going offline thus bringing down my Raid0. When I reboot and go into the controller bios I can re-import drives into the Raid and boot back up. However this issue continues to happen at least once a week.

Pros: Wow, this drive is fast...unbelievable! Got one to check it out and I am impressed. I plan to buy several more for a raid setup.

Cons: Perhaps a bit pricey...especially when you figure in $100 for a SAS controller card. Where is the 500GB model? :)

Overall Review: Is actually fairly quiet for a 15K drive, but not as quiet as the Hitachi Desktstar SATA drive. Wish motherboards had on-board SAS. Using with Supermicro server board, two Xeon 3GHx 5450s and 8GB RAM...FB DIMMS are the performance bottleneck, hard disk access is off the charts!

Pros: Ok Guys and Ladies it seams when you buy these drives no one does there home work to make these drives work for you. You need a StarTech SAS cable 18" SAS 29-pin to Sata with LP4 power cable Part# SAS729PW18 you can get this cable here at Newegg and order with your drive then set up is easy just plug in setup Raid and enjoy your new Speed Demon.

Cons: Due to speed of these drives they can cause problems with Sata drives 15000-rpm vrs 7200-rpm try to keep Sata drives as far from them as your case will allow. Good luck every one.

Pros: These drives are ultra fast and suprisingly quiet. I have 6 of these drives in a raid 5 using and Adaptec 5805 and they read at 600mb/sec. Amazing..

Cons: None

Pros: Fast drives. Good price.

Cons: Firmware not supported for Dell MD1000. Fujitsu will not support "cross platform firmware conversion" even though exact same model different firmware sold by Dell.

Overall Review: Can't say how they perform long term or under heavy use. Will need to repurpose due to incompatability and the fact I did not get them installed and checked until the 30 days was right at the end...