Review of Western Digital Raptor WD1500

User Comments: 12

1. January 4, 2006 12:52 PM
   FöÖk~äа°K said:
   About time WD came out with a bigger Raptor... have 2 36gb Raptor's in RAID 0, NEVER HAD A PROBLEM UNTIL A VIRUS GANKED MY SYSTEM, and they still rock. Expensive? Yes, but Soul Harvester had it right... SPEED, BABY, SPEED!! (Gamers most of all...)As for you guys out there spouting minimalist ideas, get yourselves a Celeron and a 5400 rpm hard drive. When you start pulling out your hair, remember you don't 'need' more or faster...Hard drives are filled a lot faster now, and for a start my 36gb drives were good... then you find out you need more. So go big, like 200x2/RAID1, or 400gb. (Of course, it also depends on what you do, but over a year or two, the drives WILL fill up.) Shop around and you might even save some money. I go to NXXXGG for most of the stuff I want, other vendors if I must. (Patience sucks.) Overall, if the price is between $250-300, I'd go for it. They will rock the socks off 7200 rpm drives, even these newer ones that are comparable to the 36/74gb Raptors. (I still love mine, I really do...)
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2. January 4, 2006 1:17 PM
   PUTALE said:
   man, I want one of this baby . I wish this will push the industry to invest more resources developing faster HD
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3. January 4, 2006 1:20 PM
   asphix said:
   I agree. I have owned a few raptors in the past and they have never left me dissapointed. They are speedy and reliable.Nice review.
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4. January 4, 2006 4:53 PM
   nathanskywalker said:
   Man, i'm not even going to bother imagining..yet. That is just too much money for me to pay, especially when i could pay half the price for something twice as big...nice thought though...
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5. January 4, 2006 7:02 PM
   exscind said:
   So Western Digital finally put these 150GB bad boys on the market, eh? Never had the pleasure of using any of the Raptor series, but with more space on a 10,000 RPM hard drive it should please the gamer sections quite well. I can't imagine people using two 150GB Raptors in RAID 0... but looking at the graphs only makes me wonder about the speed of those 15,000 RPM SCSI drives even more than two Raptors in RAID!
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6. January 5, 2006 12:45 AM
   zachig said:
   WOW!!! Raptor 150GB. That's awesome. I wish I could afford one like this. I really hope that now, after the merge between Seagate and Maxtor, the competition between Seagate/Maxtor and Western Digital in increase and we (the customers) will get to see a huge price drop in storage products.
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7. January 5, 2006 2:40 AM
   iluvnug said:
   I agree with Zachig. I am looking forward to the competition. Hopefully we will see some improvements in the technology as well.
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8. January 5, 2006 7:51 AM
   barfarf said:
   I love storage review. They are the only place that does excellent unbiased and quality reviews of harddrives. You want to know the best had go there. Check out there "leaderboard" secrtion. They list the new Hitachi Deskstar 7K500 (a 7200RPM) being close in speed to the new 3rd generation raptors but as the fraction of the cost per gigabyte. ohh what to do. I want it all =)
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9. January 5, 2006 12:52 PM
   Craftos said:
   No suprise, it's again the fastest SATA drive around, but this price (. You have to be real enthusiast with deep pockets to shell this amount of cas for just 150GB of space :
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10. January 5, 2006 10:44 PM
    fury said:
    I hear ya. I never thought I'd fill up my 74 gig Raptor and my 300 gig Maxtor... my new year resolution is to never say never again..oopsI may check this drive out when it drops down to the same price point I bought my current Raptor for, but for the price tag they're asking or any more, I'd want at least a gig per buck I spend. Maybe even per Canadian buck, although that's probably pushing it.
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11. January 6, 2006 6:56 AM
    otmakus said:
    Any enthusiasts should first have a lightning fast CPU, a few gigs of RAM, a high end video card (or cards, in SLI), premium M/B, and big storage space before even consider buying this 20-30% faster, 300% more expensive HD.
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12. January 6, 2006 11:32 AM
    mentaljedi said:
    [b]Originally posted by otmakus:[/b][quote]Any enthusiasts should first have a lightning fast CPU, a few gigs of RAM, a high end video card (or cards, in SLI), premium M/B, and big storage space before even consider buying this 20-30% faster, 300% more expensive HD.[/quote]I hear you. And with my 1.4 GHz and 256MB computer... I don't see me getting one of those... YET!
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