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
Includes heat sink drive mount
Extremely fast
Quiet
And cool
Decent capacity
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
The editors didn't like
Expensive
Not hot-swappable
Cost More Than A 7200 RPM Drive
Scared Our Other Hard Drives When They Saw The VelociRaptors Coming.
Although the production firmware doesnt improve the VelociRaptors performance in each and every test, the final product is faster overall than the engineering sample drive we looked at a couple of months ago. Western Digital has another monster on it...
Western Digital is aggressively seeking greater market share by producing innovative drives that fill niches never tackled before or creating new niches. With the Green Power, they managed to reach green-conscious PC users feeling guilty about buying ...
Abstract: VelociRaptor WD3000GLFS is the latest 10,000 rpm drive from Western Digital, with 300 GB capacity, SATA-300 interface and 16 MB buffer. The faster the hard disk drive spins, the higher performance is, as it can read data from the magnetic plates at a f...
Abstract: Ok, so technically a Dilophosaurus hocked the venom loogie all over Nedry's face. But in marketplace of consumer hard drives, there is no question that Western Digital's Velociraptor is the beast to be feared. The new 300GB, 10,000-RPM device comes ...
The Velociraptor is an incredibly fast hard drive with enough capacity to serve as a boot drive. Just know you can get a much bigger drive thats almost as speedy for the same money. ...
Western Digital kept their promises: The Velociraptor has a higher capacity, is noticeably faster than all the other SATA hard drives available and quite quiet. Furthermore the mean time between failures was increased, another accommodation to the ser...
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 ...
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Published: 2008-08-26, Author: Scott , review by: pcworld.co.nz
Abstract: Western Digital picked an extremely appropriate name for its new 10,000rpm (rotations per minute) hard drive. Dubbed the VelociRaptor, this new drive screamed through the PC World Test Centre’s performance tests. Velocity is clearly the raison d’etre ...
