Testseek.com have collected 40 expert reviews of the Western Digital 3.5 inch VelociRaptor SATA300 WD-GLFS Series and the average rating is 85%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Western Digital 3.5 inch VelociRaptor SATA300 WD-GLFS Series.
July 2008
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The editors liked
Very fast read and write times
Runs cool and quiet
The editors didn't like
To get the full benefit of its 10
000rpm spin speed it should be installed in a system with other 10
Until Western Digital released the VelociRaptor, 2008 was on track to be a year dominated by Solid-State Drive headlines. Western Digital has quickly put a stop to that and released a major roadblock for the adoption of SSDs for enthusiasts. The We...
Very fast read and write times, runs cool and quiet
To get the full benefit of its 10,000rpm spin speed it should be installed in a system with other 10,000rpm drives
Use a pair of these drives to get the most out of your high-end desktop. Sure theyre expensive, but if you need the speed, they cant be overlooked. ...
Abstract: The old Western Digital Raptors have been getting, well -- hmm, how to put this delicately -- trounced by standard 7200RPM drives, as capacities rocket toward (and beyond!) the terabyte point.High capacity drives pack more data onto the platter, which ...
After putting our socks back on from being blown off, we have all just been witness to one of the fastest hard drives on the market that does not have solid state in its name. With burst speeds of 221.9mb and very nice read/write averages in the upper...
Looks Really Cool, System Was As Snappy As Running A SSD, Ran Nice And Cool Thanks To the Ice Pack Mounting Frame, Provides Some Nice Eye Candy, Decent Price/Performance When Compared To SSDs, Western Digital Quality, Did We Mention Blazing Speed
Cost More Than A 7200 RPM Drive, Scared Our Other Hard Drives When They Saw The VelociRaptors Coming.
Weve run the gambit of hard drives commonly used in desktop systems in our series of hard drive reviews. From uber expensive SSDs to the common 7200 RPM 160GB $50 drive. We thought it fitting to end that series (for now) with the legendary Western D...
After having played with the final, retail versions of the VelociRaptor hard drive, I have no less excitement about the drives than I did before. While the raw performance of the hard drives might have been muted slightly with the release of the Inte...
The Western Digital VelociRaptor offers a single drive with the speed of two standard RAID 0 drives. There are many pros and cons of RAID, including the fact that standard RAID 0 is less stable than a single drive. With 300GB of storage, its much lar...
Abstract: August 7, 2008 Since 2003, Western Digital is the only one to offer Serial ATA drives that function at a speed of 10.000 rpm. This rotation speed up until now was reserved for SCSI drives that could even go as high as 15.000 rpm, gives an additional b...
Abstract: Western Digital's (WD) Raptor line of performance hard drives are the stuff of legend. They combine the high spindle speed and performance of more expensive server hard drives with the cheap, simple, and consumer centric SATA connection of home user syste...
