Western Digital RaptorX WD1500AHFD 150GB Clear Top SATA Drive Review

Western Digital alleviate the storage bottleneck with the 150GB WD1500AFHD RaptorX, a serial ATA hard drive with a clear window into its inner workings.

If you want the highest performance Serial ATA hard drives available, there’s only one manufacturer to turn to and that’s Western Digital. Its enterprise class Raptor hard drives are a hit among computer enthusiasts. The Western Digital Raptor hard drive achieves its remarkable performance thanks to the high rotation speed of its platters. At 10,000 RPM the WD Raptor is definitely one of the fastest spinning Serial ATA desktop HDD on the market, on par with enterprise level SCSI counterparts.

..If you’re a performance user and want your system to be more responsive, the 150GB WD RaptorX WD1500AHFD should definitely be on the list of things to upgrade - with or without the window. As a Raptor user, I can say that I definitely noticed a speed increase from moving from regular desktop 7200 RPM HDDs… if you’ve built an ultimate gaming rig there’s nothing else on the SATA desktop market that can match the RaptorX.

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