Product Description

Engineered for maximum speed! WD VelociRaptor, the newest member of the Western Digital's unique class of 10,000 RPM SATA hard drives, combines a SATA 3 Gb/s interface and 16 MB cache, to deliver performance that's up to 35% faster than its speedy older brother.It?s ideal for performance enthusiast systems, workstations, and low-end servers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7421 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Western Digital
• Model: WD3000GLFSRTL
• Platform: Windows
• Format: CD
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 48.00" h x 84.00" w x 90.00" l, .50 pounds
• Hard Disk: 300GB

Features

• Box Contents - 3 Gb/s SATA hard drive, WD SATA interface cable, Quick Install Guide, and Mounting screws
• Compatibility - Windows Vista, XP, 2000, SATA interface connector on motherboard or SATA host controller, and Available 3.5 internal drive bay

Customer Reviews

Fast drive - odd form factor
If you're familiar with the previous Raptor drives, you have an idea of the amazing performance delivered by WD's enterprise drives.

One word of caution though: The models ending in GLFS, such as this one, have the SATA connector in a nonstandard location. That makes this unsuitable for RAID arrays, Mac Pros, Dells with fixed-position ribbon connectors, etc. Look for the model ending in HLFS for a model with slightly inferior cooling, but with standard backplane-friendly cable positioning.

I ordered teh GLFS, got the GLFS, but similar to HLFS version - conforming SATA location
Odd, I ordered the GLFS, because it was the only version offered on Amazon in brand new retail box. I'm a little insecure of OEM prods for HD.

I received it a few days ago, and just got done installing it. As I was installing it, I noticed that it did not match the images for this listing, which shows the placement of the SATA to be in dead center. To my "pleasant" surprise, it was the HLFS version with the conforming SATA standard placement of the SATA and power cable on the back (coulda shortened this but forgot the 2 word that describes this feature). I checked the box again and confirmed, it does say GLFS. So, I'm wondering if WD got with the program or they're reusing the unused retail boxes of the less popular model? I'm still scratching my head about it...

I'm not too thrilled about the reports of overheating issues with the conforming version, but I was prepared for this and got a nice Silverstone Case with huge amounts of positive airflow to go with my build.

Anyways, hope this info helps those looking for retail boxed versions of the Velociraptors.

Haven't powered it up yet. Will update as things progress.

Very good HDD
There isn't really anything bad I can say about this hard drive. Its a cheap 300 GB 10k rpm hard drive that does what its suppose to do. Its definitely faster than the 7200 rpm hard drive I also have on my system. The only thing to remember is that this is a SATA drive, and doesn't use the 4 pin power connectors that older hard drives use, so if your power supply is as old as mine is, and doesn't have any SATA connectors then you will have to pick up a converter. I picked up mine from amazon for something like $5, with shipping so it's not a big deal. Like I said its a good HDD.