Works GREAT. Thanks

I would reorder one of these for my next purchase! Etronix World is a great company and solid supplier!

High Capacity Extremely Reliable Quite (for a Raptor drive) Fast

Not a con but just not as fast as a SSD (solid state drive

This is the second VelociRaptor drive i've had over the years (my last were like 72GB! still works to this day) and I've gotta say, they always impress for a HDD. It makes a bit of a racket when pushed hard but it doesn't need to be pushed hard for very long!

Slightly noisier than the Western Digital Green HDD, but the speed of file transfer makes up for that. Very Happy

In the past couple years, Intel has said that SSDs will inevitably replace platter based hard drives. Unfortunately, limited quantities of...

1TB; 2TB (tested) up to 4TB models offered; Large storage solution; Quiet operation; No additional power draw from previous generation; Low level wear head design; Great cost benefit ratio; 1TB High Performance Platter; Not too heavy at all; Noticeably faster program load and boot time; IcePack...

Will generate some heat; Weighs nearly 2 pounds each; Price makes one consider an SSD; IcePack doesn't really cool anything

I just ordered 2 of them. I always used Raptors for my Raid 0 Array. I wouldn't consider anything else for the price & reliability. I know fast & large capacity SSD's are still too expensive & you need to be careful how you treat them.

Western Digital delivers reliable storage, as always, but my Velociraptor makes a crunchy sound and occasionally a chirping sound. from what i've read this is pretty common with these, and some people actually like the sound. Works great though.

reliable; fast

noisy

The noise during the time when you access the drive for reading and writing. It doesn't sound like a coffee grinder but its somewhere near that. This drive's grinding noise is the perfect candidate for a product's testing methodology I hope to implement in the near future.

The Good: I converted two WD Caviar black drives to 500Gb and 1Tb Velociraptor drives respectively. The difference is amazing. Bootup is much faster and all applications load with incredible speed. These drives come very close to solid state drive performance.

Western Digital recently sent us its latest-generation VelociRaptor, a 1 TB update to what was already the fastest 3.5" disk drive available. Once again, it stymies the mechanical competition with significantly higher performance.