Western Digital Raptor WD360GD (36.7 GB)

Pros: Fast, quiet (for a 10k RPM drive)

Cons: Small capacity, gets very hot, expensive

The Bottom Line: If speed is your name, the Raptor is your game. If browsing and net surfing is your thing, you can forget this bling.

Review: Why the name "Raptor"? It isn't huge. It's fast! Why not a Cheetah? Oh, I think we just infringed on Seagate's trademark. :) Crap... Well, enough with the Sienfeld-like observations. I would NOT have picked these up if they weren't at least ...

Pros: Fast. Excellent warrantee. Fast. No, I mean *really* fast.

Cons: expensive. Hot. Makes your other hard drives feel pathetic.

The Bottom Line: I must if you need this level of performance, but arent' ready to step up to a hardcore SCSI solution.

Review: It's been a fun ride in the desktop hardware bix these past few years, and it's pretty interesting to see how speed and technology have incrementally advanced. Most of my current business centers around "performance" desktop machines, specifically ...

Pros: Fantastically fast, good capacity, very well built drive, designed for power users

Cons: requires PCI card and SATA cables to use, sometimes loud, not for casual users

The Bottom Line: Great drive for power users who care about every micrometer of speed. Too expensive for those who don’t kill drives yearly, and don’t care about a micrometer of extra speed.

Review: Let me start by saying I have hideously bad luck with hard drives. I drive my computer hard, 24 hour ...

Pros: FAST FAST FAST, SCSI performance without SCSI price - SATA, 10000RPM

Cons: low capacity - the end

The Bottom Line: For speed without a lot of price, nothing currently beats these drives....

Review: Now that I raved a little about the product, I will get to the details. Capacity: This is not ...

Pros: Fast! 5 year Warranty.

Cons: Runs quite hot, a bit on the noisy side, pricey.

The Bottom Line: Want fast over price and storage, get it!!

Review: I finally broke down and got one of these when I was building a new computer for myself. I never thought I would be so impressed. After getting a faster processor, more RAM and a better video card I tried things out on my old 7200RPM hard drive. Yes ...

Pros: SPEED warranty SPEED quite SPEED

Cons: Heat

Review: The Western Digital Raptor, 36.7 GB Hard Drive was built for speed. I mean that this is insanely fast. At 10000RPM and the average data seek as fast as 4.5ms because of this my games load levels so fast it is astonishing. The only sound coming from this ...

Pros: Lightning quick response!

Cons: For some people, these may be a little noisy at times.

Review: The "guts" of my current system consist of the following: a pair of Western Digital WD360GD Raptors RAID 0 with 64K stripes on a Silicon Images 3112 Controller..... Modified "thermally advantaged" Pacman mid tower case, Antec 550 W PSU, Intel 915 ...

Pros: Fast

Cons: Fragile

The Bottom Line: Great Drive, Awesome Performance, Fragile Connectors. I recommend the drive for performance, but warn about the connectors.

Review: I bought one of these Serial ATA drives for a customer of mine. Straight from the package it was bro ...

Pros: 10,000 RPM. 8MB cache Both standard ATX power and "serial Ata power" Quiet

Cons: Cost?? SATA??

The Bottom Line: The more people that buy the drive the cost will come down.

Review: The drive is quiet and fast. Gamers, Video editors, and hardcore computer geeks have been wanting a ...

Pros: Ease of installation Speed

Cons: Seek/write noise

Review: I purchased this drive to use as the primary drive to replace a 30.7 GB, 7,200 rpm Maxtor drive that was starting to squeal (yeh, scary!). The Maxtor drive was a factory replacement for one that had crashed so I couldn't get the Raptor installed fast ...