Western Digital WD1500AHFDRTL Raptor X 150GB SATA/150 Hard Drive
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Manufacturer: Western DigitalModel: WD1500AHFDRTL
Product features:
- 150 GB SATA 3.5-inch internal hard drive with crystalline polycarbonate lens for full view of inner workings
- 10,000 RPM spin speed; 16 MB cache
- Native command queuing (NCQ) for increased data transfer
- Hold up to 42,000 digital photos; 37,000 MP3 files; 3,700 uncompressed CD-quality songs; 11 hours digital video
- 5-year limited warranty
- AmazonBasics IEEE 1394 4-Pin/6-Pin FireWire Cable (6 Feet/1.8 Meters)
- AmazonBasics High-Speed HDMI Cable (9.8 Feet/3.0 Meters) [Supports 3D + Audio Return Channel]
- AmazonBasics Ultra-High-Speed HDMI Cable Braided (9.8 Feet/3.0 Meters)
- AmazonBasics High-Speed HDMI Braided Cable (6.5 Feet/2.0 Meters)
- AmazonBasics High-Speed HDMI Cable (6.5 Feet/2.0 Meters)[Supports 3D + Audio Return Channel][OLD MODEL]
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Summary: 4 Stars
This drive (clear drive window) edition is a louder than the non-transparent one so you might want to take note of that. Also it it duhhh. more expensive. and like a previous reviewer said its not practical, even with the mounting technique to the side of the window, how often are you going to watch that platter spin @ 10,000 rpm and the actuator go bezerk? Its just a fancy thing but you shouldn't buy this one. I have two of the regular WD Raptors in a RAID0 config, and while its no where as noisy as a SCSI disc, you do hear the random accesses taking place. But it idle's like a regular 7,200 rpm quiet drive however. My previous SCSI was a Cheetah X15.1 which idle's louder than this accesses and also when its accessing it sounds like a needle scraping the platter @ 15,000 rpm! Not sure about the modern cheetah x15.5's in comparison with that, but this is good enough and you can build a faster array with these than the cheetahs for much less the price! With two of these i get 168 MB/s linear read on a Intel CH7-R chipset on the asus p5w dh dlx. Some might argue you might get the same linear read with other cheapter cavier drives or so, but this is much faster for random accesses so it seems more responsive, and because of that overall faster! Get it and tell WD thanks.
Summary of Western Digital WD1500AHFDRTL Raptor X 150GB SATA/150 Hard Drive
Some hard drive companies design desktop-class drives with the SATA interface. To meet the demands of enterprise storage, WD is going one better. WD is the only company combining a 10,000 RPM enterprise-class mechanical platform with the SATA interface to meet all the demands of the enterprise environment reliability, performance, and reduced cost. Rotational Speed 10,000 RPM (nominal) / Buffer Size 16 MB / Average Latency 2.99 ms (nominal) Contact Start/Stop Cycles 20,000 minimum Seek Times - Read Seek Time 4.6 ms Write Seek Time 5.2 ms (average) Track-To-Track Seek Time 0.4 ms (average) Full Stroke Seek 10.2 ms (average) Transfer Rates - Buffer To Host (Serial ATA) 1.5 Gb/s (Max) Buffer To Disk 84 MB/s (Sustained) What it Holds - - Up to 42,000 digital photos - Up to 37,000 songs (MP3) - Up to 3,700 songs (uncompressed CD quality) - Up to 11 hours of Digital Video (DV) - Up to 66 hours of DVD quality video - Up to 18 hours of HD video System Requirements - Windows XP or Windows 2000 operating systems / SATA interface connector on motherboard, or SATA controller card (sold separately) installed in available 32-bit PCI expansion slot (2.1- or 2.2-compliant) / 3.5-inch internal drive bay Manufacturer's 5 year Limited WarrantyComputers & Add-Ons
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