Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB 10,000 RPM 16MB Cache Serial ATA150 Hard Drive

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 4.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• ASIN: B000EHVQM0
• Item model number: WD1500ADFD
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 7, 2006

Product Description

Product Description
Some hard drive companies design desktop-class drives with the Serial ATA (SATA) interface. To meet the demands of enterprise storage, WD is going one better. Western Digital is the only company combining an enterprise-class mechanical platform with the SATA interface to meet all the demands of the enterprise environment - reliability, performance, and reduced cost.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars +Fast drive+all black,sleak...-bit noisy...-pricy-,only sata-150, November 24, 2006

By	Amazonist (Miami, Florida United States) - See all my reviews

I have 2 of these in RAID-0, they literally saturate the sata-1 bus @ 150mbps. Would of been better if these drives support SATA-II at the time they were released...Can get rather noisy in a quiet environment (sounds like some slugs in a plasticbox being shaked) when heavily accessed..but atleast the audible frequencies are in the lower spectrum and doesn't have the high pitch sound that comes from my 15,000 rpm SCSI Seagate Cheetah, which is much slower than this although made since 2000. Don't go for the raptor-X infront of this one, as that one has a lower MTBF, is more audible (due to the special cover), and is entirely more expensive, unless that's what you want ofcourse. They are otherwise, identical in performance.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice Drive, July 13, 2006

By	MusicDVDs- 5.1best "will" (CT) - See all my reviews

Drive works great...replaced two 36gb Raptors with this one. Have not used it in a RAID setup but I noticed better performance with the 16mb cache over the 36gb Raptor which only had an 8mb cache.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Raptors going the way of the dinosaur?, November 15, 2007

By	R. Aull "Always Upgrading!" (Hawley, PA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've been reading lately about solid state disc(SSD) drives making their way to the consumer market. With no moving parts they would be much more quite then the drives we use now, are super fast, but they also cost their weight in gold. A 32GB SanDisk SSD drive will run you over a grand! Until those prices drop I'll stick with a hard disc drive, thank you very much! :D

As far as the Raptor goes I couldn't be happier with its performance. The price isn't bad and the read/write times are impressive. Right now I'm only running one of these but in the near future plan on running a dual boot system and using two of these for the OS's and essential programs. My 2x TB drives will hold all my movies and other media.(Hi-Def media really eats up the HD space quickly, I still remember when a Gig was a ton of space!)

One of Vistas touted features is ReadyBoost or using a jump drive, but when you have a Raptor theres no need. I saw no noticeable improvement in access times when using ReadyBoost, the 4GB Corsair Voyager GT actually seemed slower than when using the Raptor.

While the Raptors are far from silent(Samsungs Spinpoint drives are very quiet!) I wouldn't say they are loud. My Liteon DVD drive is much noisier then my Raptor so I have no complaints. I'm hoping in the future WD releases larger than 150GB drives so I can just use them in place of 7200RPM drives, time will tell. While the price premium of a 10kRPM drive wont appeal to everyone, I think the small increase is worth it to enthusiasts looking to squeeze every last bit of performance out of their setup. Recommended!