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Western Digital Raptor X 150GB hard drive with clear top

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006 | Hard Drive Reviews, News

The Western Digital Raptor hard drives have made quite a stir in the world of hard drives. A few years back they managed to come in as the leading contendor for the desktop market, being placed into high end machines. The original intention was for them to make grounds in the server market. The Raptor X aims squarely at the enthusiast performance market for top of the line desktop computers. The most obvious of the enthusiast features is the clear window, displaying the guts of the hard drive.

It doubles the size of its predecessor, and ups the performance. At tomshardware they take a look at just how fast this drive is and compare it to the other options available to achieve this level of performance, RAID 0. For a similar price you can get 2 ordinary drives and put them together in a RAID 0 array (where the data is striped over both drives) which also offers very solid performance.

However, this drive still manages to top those in tests. It is also a single drive, making installation easy, and because of a long 5 year warranty, you don’t have to double your worry with 2 drives that could fail.

All in all this is a wicked fast drive. If you need the best, then this is it, there is no competition. With a price tag of around $300 for the non-window version and $350 for the windowed version, it is not cheap, but certainly a worthwhile investment.

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