300GB Sata HDD 10K Rpm

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B001TGUZ8G
• Item model number: WD3000HLFS
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #66,415 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 18, 2009

Product Description

Product Description

Engineered for maximum speed! WD VelociRaptor, the member of the unique Western Digital`s class of 10,000 RPM SATA hard drives, combines a SATA 3 Gb/s interface and 16 MB cache to deliver performance that's up to 35% faster than its speedy older brother. At the same time, WD VelociRaptor consumes 35% less power than the previous generation of WD Raptor. Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward optimizes operation and performance when the drives are used in vibration-prone, multi-drive chassis.Ideal for blade servers, performance enthusiast systems, workstations, and low-end servers.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Huge Performance Boost for Web Servers, December 17, 2008

By	Peter Bickford (San Jose, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

We bought a number of the regular Raptors to upgrade our AtomicAvenue.com production servers, but had to return them when we discovered that the way the smaller drive form factor is positioned within the heat sink makes them not line up with our server's hot-swappable ports.

Crushed, I still decided to spring for a test unit of these "backplane-compatible" versions (there's a special bracket offsetting the connectors so that they slot into the same position that they would be in on a conventional 3.5" drive). It cost $100 more than the other version (grr!), but it turns out to have been money well spent.

Database performance went up about 10% overall from the older-edition Raptors it was hosted on, but the difference that moving our covers on Atomic Avenue over to the new drive was night and day! (We serve up over 250,000 comic covers in various sizes--over a million files on one disk, and even the trivial amount of time spent doing directory lookups and serving the 10K to 150K-sized files is magnified by both user loads and the sheer number of graphics per page). With the new drive as our cover serving store, we actually managed to halve the time required to serve the actual page--and that's simply by relocating the images, not the web site or server software itself!

In short: pricey, but *well* worth the money--at least in our case. If you don't need backplane connectivity, save a C-note and get the regular model (WD3000GLFS), but even at the huge markup for the backplane model(WD3000HLFS), it's going to pay for itself quickly in our application.