Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD - Bigger, Faster, Stronger : Review

Quote: The second coming of the Raptor (yes it was near god-like to some), marked a welcomed increase in capacity to 74GB, with a pair of 36GB platters inside. The drive retained the bridge chip for its SATA interface, but updated firmware along with quieter operational acoustics and overall better performance, just offered more of a good thing. Plugging a pair of Raptor WD740s into a RAID 0 array was becoming commonplace in many Gaming Rigs and high-end Workstations. Regardless, the insatiable need for more storage capacity marches on, along with the need-for-speed; it almost goes without saying. With huge capacity drives like Hitachi's 7K500 entering the market, as well as new advances in 3GBps SATA interfaces speeds and other technologies like NCQ (native command queuing), Western Digital had to answer the call. Their answer? The new Raptor WD1500 series, which we'll be evaluating today.

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