Cheap Price Sale 24% off Western Digital 300 GB VelociRaptor SATA 10,000 RPM 16 MB Cache Desktop Hard Drive WD3000GLFSRTL – Retail : Engineered for maximum speed! WD VelociRaptor, the newest member of our unique class of 10,000 RPM SATA hard drive, 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.
Features:
Box Contents – 3 Gb/s SATA hard drive, WD SATA interface cable, Quick Install Guide, and Mounting screws
Compatibility – Windows Vista, XP, 2000, SATA interface connector on motherboard or SATA host controller, and Available 3.5 internal drive bay
While these days 300 Gb is on the low side… what it lacks in storage it makes up in raw speed. I have a Mac Pro, and use Bootcamp to play games so I got this for quickness and not only does it copy, read, run utilities and generally make Windows 7 (which I didn’t intend to use a lot or even like) run lightening fast… games run without a moment of stutter. I have a RAID for my Mac OS using 2 WD 7200 RPM drives and this blows it away. Would be tempted to use 2 of these in a RAID but don’t have enough drive slots. Very stable drive, quiet, does get a bit warm but reasonable. WD is the best in terms of drives, I’ve had Seagate and Hitachis die on me under 2 years WD are rock solid stable.
Odd, I ordered the GLFS, because it was the only version offered on Amazon in brand new retail box. I’m a little insecure of OEM prods for HD.
I received it a few days ago, and just got done installing it. As I was installing it, I noticed that it did not match the images for this listing, which shows the placement of the SATA to be in dead center. To my “pleasant” surprise, it was the HLFS version with the conforming SATA standard placement of the SATA and power cable on the back (coulda shortened this but forgot the 2 word that describes this feature). I checked the box again and confirmed, it does say GLFS. So, I’m wondering if WD got with the program or they’re reusing the unused retail boxes of the less popular model? I’m still scratching my head about it…
I’m not too thrilled about the reports of overheating issues with the conforming version, but I was prepared for this and got a nice Silverstone Case with huge amounts of positive airflow to go with my build.
Anyways, hope this info helps those looking for retail boxed versions of the Velociraptors.
Haven’t powered it up yet. Will update as things progress.
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