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This drive is great! Very fast! This drive decreased the time it takes to load applications by around 15%. Applications tend to "pop right up". A solid state drive would be faster than this, however this was so much cheaper. My OS Drive fully loaded is large. I could go a lot smaller, but now I do not need to. If you don't have a whole lot of money to sink into storage, I would suggest getting one or two of these for your OS/game drive. The drive is loud, I could hear it over everything in my old case (Antec 900) but since I've upgraded to the Cosmos 1000 by Cooler Master, I have to really listen for it to be able to hear it.
Got total of 4x Raptor X's, which I set up in RAID 0 (striping) array. Since I use the array for video material capture, drive/array reliability is less of a question, thus I bought 3x used drives (the first one I've bought new) on cheap and gradually built the array with top speed of 320 MB/sec read/write speeds. This speed is blazing fast and allows me to capture high quality video without single dropped frame. Doesn't have to be Raptor X's, any Raptor will work well, due to high speed and very good reliability. Velociraptors are slightly faster, but are too expensive for RAID.
I have to say the differance between my old WD 150GB 7,200rpm Hard Drive and this Raptor X 10,000rps Hard Drive are night and day! I can load apps and games in half the time I use to be able too. The only draw back of the Raptor X is it's louder than my old 7,200rpm Hard Drive, but for the diffenance in speed I would gladly buy it again! As a matter a fact I'm looking for another on to use with this one for Raid 0. A+ Western Digital you've made a great Hard Drive! I would recommend this HArd Drive to anyone!!!!
PROS: First and foremost, this drive is FAST. 10,000rpms. This is exactly why I bought it. Seriuously, I installed Vista x64 in less than 15 minutes. The viewable lens on it gives it the edge that will make you feel better about shelling out a few extra bucks for it. With a couple more hooked up in a RAID config, you will have the fastest rig possible. The drive is relatively quiet. CONS: The specs on the drive says it is 150GB, but only 139GB is available to use. That is a serious FAIL to me. They should market it as a 140GB drive. Also, the jumper settings are virtually non existent on the physical drive, I had to run a search for the user's manual to figure them out. SUMMARY: Good drive for the money if you are looking for performance. As far as capacity goes, it doesn't have much to offer. With the 10,000rpm drives you seem to pay about $1/GB of space, which is a bit pricey compared to 1Terrabyte drives which sell for about $120 @ 7,200rpm. Built for performance junkies. B+!Read full review
Circa 2010, platter hard drives have been completely eclipsed in performance by Solid State Drives. Prior to the revolution, however, the Veliciraptor was always the fastest hard drive around. Now, the Raptor X isn't one of the latest versions (and therefore isn't quite as quick) but that's not why you buy one. This drive remains to this day the only drive with a plexiglass window that allows you to see the platter spin and the arm swing as it works. Yeah, it's noisy and gets a little warm. But you can watch it working! Nuff said!
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