Testseek.com have collected 81 expert reviews of the Western Digital 3.5 inch VelociRaptor SATA600 WD-DHTZ Series and the average rating is 83%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Western Digital 3.5 inch VelociRaptor SATA600 WD-DHTZ Series.
June 2012
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The editors liked
Good speed for a HDD
Can almost rival SSDs when in RAID 0 config
Capacity in comparison to SSD
The WD VelociRaptor WD1000DHTZ offers great performance and offers 1TB of storage space
High performance. 3.5- and 2.5-inch form factors (although far too tall for a laptop drive). 5-year warranty
The editors didn't like
Price
SSDs still have the edge (obviously)
The new WD VelociRaptor WD1000DHTZ is noticeably more expensive than regular hard drives of the same capacity
High performance. 3.5- and 2.5-inch form factors (although far too tall for a laptop drive). 5-year warranty
Noisy. Losing relevance in the face of SSDs
Western Digital's Velociraptor is still the king of mechanical hard drives. But in the face of ever-dropping SSD prices, it finds itself at a time of decreasing relevancy....
– Western Digital 1TB Velociraptor (WD1000DHTZ)The Western Digital 1TB Velociraptor 10K RPM drives are quicker and meaner than any other platter based hard drives available on the SATA interface. They are the F1 of the hard drive market in terms of pe...
Published: 2012-12-03, Author: The , review by: hardwarebbq.com
The noise during the time when you access the drive for reading and writing. It doesn't sound like a coffee grinder but its somewhere near that. This drive's grinding noise is the perfect candidate for a product's testing methodology I hope to implemen...
Abstract: Wednesday, 31 October 2012 04:33 Western Digital’s VelociRaptor has been one of our preferred SATA drives for video editing for many years. This time around Western Digital improved the performance and raised the capacity to 1TB while maintaining low ...
Published: 2012-09-28, Author: Matthew , review by: pcmag.com
Speedy for a hard drive. Inexpensive compared with SSDs.
Slower than SSDs. Pricier than traditional spinning hard drives
The Western Digital VelociRaptor is back in a 1TB version that reclaims the speed crown for spinning media?but it can?t compare to SSDs on the performance front....
