VelociRaptor 150gb vs 300gb

KamelRed

KamelRed

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After putting around with a Maxtor 6L200S0 200gb HDD I decided to uprade to a WD VelociRaptor WD1500HLFS 150gb. Since I'm not made of money and storage space isn't an issue with me, the 150gb over the 300gb model was more practical. However, I am having difficulty finding benchmarks between the two VelociRaptor models. I'm assuming if there is a performance difference its marginal at best but I was just wondering if anyone compared the drives and if they could post the results or a link to them.

And just to show show what I'll be upgrading from, here is my HD Tune benchmark.

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If money is an issue, perhaps you could consider the WD6400AAKS that goes for about $85 regularly, you'd get much better (like, twice) the performance of your current disk, and almost three times the [advertised] storage, as well.

You'll be paying a large premium for 10,000 RPM drives like the Velociraptors, and even then its performance isn't that far ahead of the WD6400AAKS. Top-of-the-line components have prices that don't reflect linear performance increases.
 
Well I didn't mean to sound like I'm on a super tight budget but $180 is a lot more easier to swallow then $280. I had already ordered the drive before my post but I worded it in a way that made it sound like I didn't bite the bullet yet, my apologies.

I was considering the WD6400AAKS (actually ordered one for a family members system) but I always wanted a WD Raptor HDD ever since the first model came out years ago.
 
I just received 2 WD 1500HLFS WD VelociRaptors today and plan to put them in raid 0 KamelRed. I did own 2 of the first generation 36gig raptors and had those in raid 0 with an AMD 2500+ Barton overclocked to 2.3ghz and I can honestly say I seen a huge improvement in my time spent on the computer so I’m sure I wont be disappointed in the new VelociRaptors neither. Post your benches when it arrives and I’ll follow up with my Raid 0 when I have all the parts for my new system. I have the two drives and an ANTEC 1200 on the way so it’s a start.
 
Sounds good kevdaman.

Its 3 day shipping so I'll hopefully receive the drive early next week. I was actually going to format and reinstall XP sometime soon on my current system so this purchase has nicely coincided with that.
 
tuaarita said:
How much would these WD's cost around?

And are they reliable? :D
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I paid $179.99 for mine at Newegg (free shipping). I didn't really shop around much for better prices though. As far as it being reliable I guess that remains to be seen.
 
No. Just cost and capacity. Perf's the same, unless you want to consider shortstroking in a RAID0 scenerio, then the VR300 can be slightly faster.
 
Sgt_Strider said:
I think you're right on this. Are you 100% sure the VR 150GB is the same as the 300GB just half the capacity?
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I am wanting to know the same thing and also how the noise is on this drive. They both are 2.5" drives and look a lot alike.
 
Copyright said:
It looks like that review is comparing it to the old 150gig raptor and not the VR?
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure that is the old 150GB Raptor. Apparently, the VR 150GB is phasing out the older 150GB according to newegg (old one has auto notify).
 
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