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Product Details
Description:
The exploding growth of enterprise data storage puts tremendous pressure on IT managers, who must accommodate ever-greater volume with ever-tighter budgets. This increased need for enterprise storage, coupled with the decline in IT budgets, creates a need for reliable, low-cost solutions. Enter Serial ATA (SATA), a new interface developed with enterprise storage in mind. Some hard drive companies design desktop-class hard drives with the SATA interface, but WD is going one better. To meet the demands of enterprise storage, Western Digital is the only company to combine an enterprise-class hard drive with the SATA interface to meet all the demands of the enterprise environment-reliability, performance, and reduced cost.
Quick Glance
Interface: SATA/150
Internal/External: Internal
Drive Width: 3.5"
Drive Type: Hard Drive
Cache Size: 8
Rotational Speed: 10000
Capacity: 36700
Summary
Product Title: WD Raptor 36.70 GB Internal Hard Drive - 1 Pack
Manufacturer: WD
Lowest Price: $35.00 from ServerSupply.com
Power Score: 4.4 | 20 Reviews
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Product Reviews (11)
Overall this drive is awesome. I...
Strengths: Very quick and surprisingly quiet. Stable despite high temperatures.
Weakness: Gets hot in a hurry.
Overall this drive is awesome. I don't have any real complaints. I can't believe these drives are being compaired to SCSI though. SATA hasn't even scratched the surface of it's potential and as of this writing (12/23/2004) current drives aren't even full SATA spec. That isn't supposed to happen until 2006. An all aluminum case has been sufficient to disperse the heat generated by these drives (8...
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By speedkreature - Dec 23, 2004
The fastest hard drive I've ever...
Strengths: Super fast!!! This thing just flies.
Weakness: None.
The fastest hard drive I've ever owned. This blows my 7200RPM hard drive away. This hard drive is deffinately worth the extra money compared to a 7200RPM hard drive.
By paladin88 - Mar 4, 2004
I have two Raptors in a RAID 0...
Strengths: Extremely fast Quiet
Weakness: SATA connector somewhat weak-use the new WD SATA cable only
I have two Raptors in a RAID 0 array (with a drive image on a third data drive for safekeeping). The system is blazingly fast. "Thrilled" is an understatement. The only problem to report is that with one of my original Raptors, the SATA cable must have put too much torque on the connector at the drive and it snapped off the plastic "siding", ruining it. It appears that Western Digital has...
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By jnice - Mar 8, 2004
I bought two of these babies for...
Strengths: Fast
Weakness: None
I bought two of these babies for raid 0 configuration. These things smoke when loading Unreal Tournament 2003 or any other game for that matter. I have two fans blowing on them so hopely they will stay cool cuz they spin at 10,000 rpm.
By styxrogan - Sep 9, 2003
Since no one else has done a...
Strengths: Fast, SATA Cable is nice and thin.
Weakness: Absolutely none!
Since no one else has done a review about running the Raptor not in RAID0, I will. Even running the single drive is noticeably faster than a regular 7200 RPM Drive. Windows XP Pro/SP1 loads in less than 10 seconds after POST. Total boot time is about 19 seconds. I highly recommend this drive even for just a regular single drive.
By CMB350 - Dec 3, 2003