3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Simply the best, 24 April 2010
By J. Boyd - Published on Amazon U.S.
This review is from: Western Digital VelociRaptor 2.5 inch 300GB 10000RPM Internal Hard Drive (Personal Computers)
I've purchased two versions of the 3.5" Icy Frame-mounted versions as well as this bare 2.5" version. I prefer the bare. I mounted this in a Silverstone dual-2.5" mounting tray (highly recommended, inexpensive). The Velociraptor is considerably faster and much cooler-running than the original Raptor. For some products I've purchased, one star is too many. For this Velociraptor, five stars are too few. It is fast - 7 ms overall access time compared with about 14 ms for a good 2.5" mobile drive like the 7,200-rpm Scorpio Black. Sustained data-transfer rate varies from 125 MB/sec at the outer cylinders to about 80 MB/sec on the innermost cylinders. Burst data rate is around 240 MB/sec. This is outstanding performance for a cool-running 2.5" drive. I purchased Raptors about four years ago and I thought they were the bees knees until this jewel came along. Its biggest shortcoming is the 12.5-mm depth (thickness), rather than 9-mm, so it can't fit all desired applications. Where it does fit, it's dynamite. Almost as good as SSD and less expensive, byte for byte.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great drive, exactly what I expected, 22 Jan 2011
By G. Scroggin - Published on Amazon U.S.
This review is from: Western Digital VelociRaptor 2.5 inch 300GB 10000RPM Internal Hard Drive (Personal Computers)
I bought this to replace a WD740 that I've used for years, as I needed more space. Same great performance I've come to expect from the Raptors, at a good price.
3 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Title misprint? Didn't get what I thought I'd get!!, 1 April 2010
By J. J. Webb - Published on Amazon U.S.
This review is from: Western Digital VelociRaptor 2.5 inch 300GB 10000RPM Internal Hard Drive (Personal Computers)
The title on the product page states "Western Digital 300 GB VelociRaptor SATA 10,000 RPM 16 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Enterprise Hard Drive WD1500BLFS" - Which I understood to mean that I'd be receiving a 300 GB VelociRaptor drive.
However the sticker on the drive says 150GB. I think this might be due to some sort of misprint that Amazon made, as the model number is WD1500GLFS, and on other 300gb units listed on this site (with a $50 higher pricetag) have WD3000GLFS as the model number.
Other than not getting what I expected, this drive is priced lower than the other 150gb velociraptor drives, so I guess I'm going to install it anyways as I was figuring the extra 150 bonus for $50 less was just gravy.
