Western Digital WD 74GB 10K RAPTOR Bulk-OEM Hard Drive WD740ADFD
Sunday, March 15, 2009 7:39
Binding : Electronics
ProductGroup : CE
Manufacturer : Western Digital
Brand : Western Digital
Label : Western Digital
Publisher : Western Digital
Model : WD740ADFD
Studio : Western Digital
Lowest Refurbished Price: USD $59.99
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Designed and manufactured to enterprise-class standards to provide enterprise reliability in high duty cycle environments. With 1.2 million hours MTBF, WD Raptor drives have the highest available reliability rating on a high capacity drive. With a next-generation SATA interface, 1.5 Gb/s data transfer rate, native command queuing (NCQ), and 16 MB cache, these drives deliver optimum performance. RAID-specific, time-limited error recovery (TLER), a feature unique to WD, prevents drive fallout caused by the extended hard drive error-recovery processes common to desktop drives. Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF) optimizes operation and performance when the drives are used in vibration-prone, multidrive systems such as rack-mounted servers or network storage. WD Raptor features FlexPower connector technology that accepts power from either industry standard or new SATA power supplies.
works great after RMAing 2 of them (2009-07-01)
the drive is blazing fast but unfortunately the first 2 i got were DOA. im still a die hard seagate fan. my 3rd drive finally worked.
Fastest non SCSI drive available..... (2008-02-25)
Built several performance systems using these drives in a RAID 0, dual Raptor drive configuration, with a generic sata for backup/ storeage. The only reason to get these drives is pure speed, as the $/gb is not competitive with generic 7200 rpm drives.
That said, typical throughputs (as benchmarked by HDtach) with the boxes I've built are ~135 megabytes per second, sustained (after the disk cache is emptied) over a simulated full disk write - far faster than the typical throughput of ~ 50 mb/ second of a typical sata. Anything disk intesive loads ridiculously fast. Well worth the money, esp. in a RAID 0 config. for the demanding user thats willing to pay the extra money for the performance gains.
Pro's: Very fast, with great life expectancy (MTBF of 1.2 million hours) Large cache
Cons: Expensive for the capacity, louder and hotter than a typical 7200 rpm drive (although this should be expected, given the 10k rpm)
Great, fast drive (2007-07-13)
While this drive does produce a bit more noise than many 7,200RPM drives, consider that it's spinning at 10,000RPM, so more noise is to be expected I would think. And, of course, it also gets a little warmer than the normal hard drive so make sure your case has proper cooling. The rotation speed makes a difference, even a noticeable one. I saw many benchmarks attesting to this fact before purchasing the drive myself, but I knew it was worth it for myself when I saw how fast Windows loaded with this drive compared to the 7,200 RPM drive I had before
If you play games with long load times, move lots of files around, or just want Windows to boot up faster, this drive is worth the price.
I would still recommend a bigger 16 MB cache hard drive (2007-06-27)
All you will get is a whole lotta noise, and the speed is really not all that , even when I overclocked the sucker. My other PC using a Maxtor 16 MB cache 320 GB Sata 2 hard drive does way better for the same price.
Don't waste you money, for the price I paid I could have bought me a 500GB hard drive with all the partitions I ever dreamed off.
WD Not for Vista. (2007-03-08)
Western Digital says that they do not support Vista. This is what there tech support told me. and that I should get another O.S. I could not beleive that when the guy told me that. So, instead I bought a Seagate Hard drive. Bye to Western Digital.
