Western Digital Raptor 150 Gb 10K SATA Hard Drive

**MIG-31** · May 17, 2008, 01:39 AM

Hard drives are one of the major factors that limit the performance of your
system. Even if you have a great CPU to process the information and a lot of fast RAM to store the information, that information first has to be retrieved from the hard drive before it goes anywhere else. This is where the Western Digital Raptor 10,000 RPM 150 GB Hard Drive comes in. This is one of the top of the line hard drives available from Western digital. This particular hard drive is special because unlike the traditional 7200 RPM hard drives, this one spins at 10,000 RPM which leads to significantly smaller seek times thus producing huge performance gains.
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Tipstaff · May 17, 2008, 02:20 AM

Word of warning to people considering this drive for use on older Intel machines: do not use the Raptors (75GB, 150GB, and 300GB) on older SATA controllers. Older as in ICH7 or lower. While the issue isn't as bad with the ICH7 controller (Raptors under perform on ICH7) anything earlier will cause the hard drive to perform like crap, as well as cause the hard drive to heat up.. considerably, and crash.. constantly.

May 17, 2008, 01:39 AM	#1
MIG-31 DH News MOD Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham,UK Posts: 42,574 Rep Power: 185 System Specs	Western Digital Raptor 150 Gb 10K SATA Hard Drive Hard drives are one of the major factors that limit the performance of your system. Even if you have a great CPU to process the information and a lot of fast RAM to store the information, that information first has to be retrieved from the hard drive before it goes anywhere else. This is where the Western Digital Raptor 10,000 RPM 150 GB Hard Drive comes in. This is one of the top of the line hard drives available from Western digital. This particular hard drive is special because unlike the traditional 7200 RPM hard drives, this one spins at 10,000 RPM which leads to significantly smaller seek times thus producing huge performance gains. ____________ Review: Techware Labs __________________ Please Post Your News Submissions Here How you can help DriverHeaven by using Digg!

May 17, 2008, 02:20 AM	#2
Tipstaff DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Real capital of Canada: Toronto Posts: 5,528 Rep Power: 94 System Specs	Word of warning to people considering this drive for use on older Intel machines: do not use the Raptors (75GB, 150GB, and 300GB) on older SATA controllers. Older as in ICH7 or lower. While the issue isn't as bad with the ICH7 controller (Raptors under perform on ICH7) anything earlier will cause the hard drive to perform like crap, as well as cause the hard drive to heat up.. considerably, and crash.. constantly. __________________ >><<

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