Western Digital (WD360GDRTL) 36.7GB SATA HDD Retail

by Western Digital

Product Details

• Item Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds
• ASIN: B00013R7IO
• Item model number: WD360GDRTL
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #181,432 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 8, 2005

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Western Digital's Enterprise Serial ATA hard drive, WD Raptor, is built for speed, with 10,000 RPM rotational disk speed and 5.2 ms average data seek times. It's built for reliability, on a rugged, enterprise-class mechanical platform with high-end bearings and actuator. It's built to last for years of high-performance operation around the clock with an MTBF of 1.2 million hours. WD Raptor ESATA hard drive carries Western Digital's five-year warranty. And it's built for value, priced up to 30 percent less than SCSI hard drives.

Serial ATA is poised to replace Parallel SCSI in the mid-range, but only if there's a drive that can meet the performance and reliability requirements of that market. That drive is the WD Raptor! The WD Raptor is a new class of hard drive that matches SCSI reliability and performance and provides simplified connectivity, up to 30 percent less cost than Parallel SCSI drives.

WD Raptor Product Benefits

• Built for speed, the WD Raptor has 10,000 RPM rotational disk speed and 5.2 ms average data seek times.
• Built for reliability, it has a rugged, enterprise-class mechanical platform with high-end bearings and actuator.
• Built to last, this Enterprise SATA (ESATA) hard drive is made for years of high-performance operation around the clock. MTBF has been calculated at 1.2 million hours.
• Built with a backing, WD Raptor ESATA hard drives carry Western Digital's five-year warranty.
• Built for value, WD Raptor is priced nearly a third lower than Parallel SCSI enterprise hard drives.

Product Description

Western Digital (WD360GDRTL) 36.7GB SATA HDD Retail

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Fast Drive, December 23, 2003

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chillwater (MIAMI, FL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Western Digital (WD360GDRTL) 36.7GB SATA HDD Retail (Electronics)

If you, like me, have discovered that the slowest part of your computer is your hard drive this item is for you. They just keep pushing faster cpu clock speeds and bus speeds without any equal improvement to hard drive speeds. This drive is literally twice as fast as my two year old 20 gig drive (which I still use). I have actually timed applications opening and report generation in my business apps on the same machine. I am very impressed.

Some pros:
Very fast.
Very reliable (server grade,see WD website)
Included SATA PCI card worked fine. (I don't know if it's included here)

Some cons:
You must know what you are doing with your BIOS to enable booting to this drive. It's not rocket science but it could be if your motherboard is more than a year old. Also, take WD's advice and do a clean Win XP install on this drive and then transfer your data from your old drive. This will save you the six or eight hours I spent trying to transfer the whole drive with the formatting and booting etc. Plan your moves before you start.

It could be bigger.

Thats it. Good luck. It was definitely worth it for me.

5.0 out of 5 stars FAST AS FAST CAN BE, September 7, 2006

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douglas strock (red bluff, ca. United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Western Digital (WD360GDRTL) 36.7GB SATA HDD Retail (Electronics)

I HAVE USED WESTERN DIGITAL DRIVES IN MY COMPUTERS FOR YEARS AND IN MY LATEST BUILD I INSTALLED TWO OF THESE RAPTOR DRIVES
AND THE PERFORMANCE IS AWSOME THESE ARE THE FASTEST DRIVES I HAVE EVER USED IF YOU DON'T HAVE ONE GET ONE IT'S A GREAT PERFORMANCE BOOST OVER A 7200 RPM DRIVE

12 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What are they thinking?, April 29, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Western Digital (WD360GDRTL) 36.7GB SATA HDD Retail (Electronics)

I just cant believe this drive is so expensive here. The exact same HDD is 112 dollars on newegg! Please update your prices!