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
(85%)
40 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Abstract: Named after a dinosaur species which was quick and vicious, this HDD is also built for high speed. It comes with 10,000 rpm spindle speed, SATA 3 GB/s interface and 16 MB cache to give high performance. VelociRaptor has 300 GB storage space with a for...
Quite expensive, Mounting incompatible with hot-swap NAS servers.
So the dust has finally settled and we were left completely in awe of the VelociRaptor. The WD VelociRaptor is THE fastest consumer hard drive ever produced "Period". It is the new performance king and we foresee a long reign ahead for this king. It s...
Western Digitals Raptor drives really need no introduction. WD has been at the cutting edge of consumer HDD performance for over five years now, and each iteration of drives in this range has been, to put it mildly, "bats out of hell powered by n...
The theoretical HD Tach tests show that the VelociRaptor is indeed the fastest hard disk available. An average sustained reading speed of 106.2MB/sec and writing speed of 97.8MB/sec is excellent, and a noticeable step up from all the other hard disks ...
After putting our socks back on from being blown off, we have all just been witness to one of the fastest hard drives on the market that does not have solid state in its name. With burst speeds of 221.9mb and very nice read/write averages in the upper...
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
Cost More Than A 7200 RPM Drive, Scared Our Other Hard Drives When They Saw The VelociRaptors Coming.
Weve run the gambit of hard drives commonly used in desktop systems in our series of hard drive reviews. From uber expensive SSDs to the common 7200 RPM 160GB $50 drive. We thought it fitting to end that series (for now) with the legendary Western D...
After having played with the final, retail versions of the VelociRaptor hard drive, I have no less excitement about the drives than I did before. While the raw performance of the hard drives might have been muted slightly with the release of the Inte...
The Western Digital VelociRaptor offers a single drive with the speed of two standard RAID 0 drives. There are many pros and cons of RAID, including the fact that standard RAID 0 is less stable than a single drive. With 300GB of storage, its much lar...
