StorageReview reviews Western Digital VelociRaptor WD3000BLFS 300GB 10k rpm 2.5" inch hard drive
Encompassing three generations of releases, Western Digital's standout 10,000 RPM Raptor family has been warmly received by enthusiasts worldwide over the course of the last five years. Combining the best single-user performance money could buy with a relatively reasonable price, each Raptor release satiated enthusiasts with a marriage of increased capacity and over-the-top performance. Perhaps the largest complaints leveled against the series have been the large swaths of time separating each release.
Though WD rapidly followed up its initial 37 GB release with a significantly improved 74 GB model, almost two years separated the Raptor WD740GD and its successor, the Raptor WD1500ADFD. As the family's first native SATA design, the latter Raptor again stood as WD's performance-oriented offering for nearly sixteen months. In that time, terabyte behemoths hit the channel and have chipped away at and in some cases even surpassed the venerable third-generation Raptor in sheer performance. Its 150-gigabyte capacity also seemed more and more constricting as the months ticked by...
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