Killer speed - Fastest SATA drive on the planet
Monstrous capacity - Capacities up to 600 GB, double the capacity of the previous generation.
Rock-solid reliability - With 1.4 million hours MTBF, these drives have the highest available reliability rating on a high capacity SATA drive.
Ultra-cool operation - Consumes less idle power and uses similar active power as the previous generation WD VelociRaptor, while offering double the capacity and higher performance.
Ships in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging
450 GB capacity, 50 percent larger than the largest previous Velociraptor
5 year limited warranty.
Rock-solid reliability, built to highest enterprise-class standards.
Ultra Cool operation with Ice Pack mounting frame
This review is from: Western Digital 450 GB VelociRaptor SATA 6 Gb/s 10,000 RPM 32 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Enterprise Hard Drive - WD4500HLHXPros: Super quiet, easy to install. Simple.Cons: Using it on a motherboard (ASUS Crosshair IV Extreme) that supports 6gb SATA. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to take advantage of the 6gb SATA speeds. Performance does not appear to have improved and I don't know how to tell if it is performing at the rated 6gb speeds. The Microsoft System Performance Index still rates drive performance as 5.6, the same as it was under the previous 7200 rpm 3gb SATA drive. This makes me sad...General: First time user of this drive. Once I can figure out how to properly take advantage of the improved speed the drive and MB offers I will be in Nervana....
This review is from: Western Digital 450 GB VelociRaptor SATA 6 Gb/s 10,000 RPM 32 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Enterprise Hard Drive - WD4500HLHXWe purchased three of these to replace an entire RAID 5 array in a small business server. The factory drives were (no names mentioned) 7200 RPM with minimal cache and approaching their four year anniversary. There were some slight performance issues with file access, so I felt it was time to do a performance upgrade, increase the storage size, and conduct a preemptive strike against aged drive failure in the array all at once.Backed up the entire server to an image file.Wiped out the old RAID volume.Replaced all the drives at once.Created a new RAID 5 volume. Restored the image of the server to the new volume.(For the curious, we did not install the drives one by one over time, letting the new spindles synch, because the new volume was intended to be larger than the original, and our RAID firmware does not support resizing volumes.)Expanded the data partition on the restored volume using GPart.First (and second) impressions during and after this upgrade:1) Restoring the image to the new drives took about half the time as expected - these new drives are substantially faster than the originals.2) On first boot, the performance improvement was fairly dramatic. On the original drives the server would take about 2 minutes to boot after getting past the RAID firmware BIOS screens. On the new drives it takes about 45 seconds - better than half the time.3) Overall responsiveness on the server for network file access is much snappier feeling. Gone are the short pauses when browsing deep into the project folders. We did the upgrade about 4 months ago - and so far zero problems with reliability. Very happy with these drives....
This review is from: Western Digital 450 GB VelociRaptor SATA 6 Gb/s 10,000 RPM 32 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Enterprise Hard Drive - WD4500HLHXThe drive was supposed to be a addition to my existing server. The drive is great and server grade. I am currently using it as a drive to host virtual machines so satisfies the need correctly...
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