Western Digital WD1500HLFS, WD3000HLFS User Manual

WD VelociRaptor

SATA Hard Drives

Killer Speed

Rock-solid Reliability

5-year Limited Warranty

Enterprise Hard Drives

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The Fastest SATA Drive in the Known Universe.

Engineered for maximum speed! WD VelociRaptor, the newest member of our 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, WD Raptor®.

Ideal for performance enthusiast systems, workstations and servers.

Killer speed – Built on the performance bloodlines of

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WD Raptor, this 10,000 RPM drive delivers mind-bending performance. Not only is it 35% faster than the previous generation WD Raptor drives, but it also beat out all other competitors in the ﬁeld.

Rock-solid reliability – Designed and manufactured to

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mission-critical enterprise-class standards to provide enterprise reliability in high duty cycle environments. With 1.4 million hours MTBF, this drive has the highest available reliability rating on a high capacity SATA drive.

Double the capacity – State-of-the-art technology packs twice

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the capacity per disk compared to its older brother WD Raptor resulting in up to 300 GB of high-performance storage space in this enterprise-class drive.

WD VelociRaptor

SATA Hard Drives

Enterprise Hard Drives

Interface

SATA 3 Gb/s

Product Speciﬁcations

Form Factor: 3.5-inch Spin speed: 10,000 RPM MTBF: 1.4 million hours

Key Features

Ultra-cool operation – WD VelociRaptor consumes 35% less power than the previous generation of WD Raptor.

IcePack™ mounting frame – The 2.5-inch WD VelociRaptor is enclosed in a backplane-ready 3.5-inch enterprise-class mounting frame with a built-in heat sink that keeps this powerful little drive extra cool when installed in high-performance desktop chassis.

Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF™) – Optimizes operation and performance when the drives are used in vibrationprone, multi-drive chassis.

System Compatibility

Windows

Vista/XP/2000 SATA interface connector on motherboard or SATA host controller.

Available 3.5-inch internal drive bay

Compatibility may vary depending on user’s hardware conﬁguration and operating system.

Capacities and Model Numbers

150 GB WD1500HLFS 300 GB WD3000HLFS

Limited Warranty

5 years

NoTouch™ ramp load technology – The recording head never touches the disk media ensuring signiﬁcantly less wear to the recording head and media as well as better drive protection in transit.

Western Digital, WD, WD Raptor, the WD logo, and Put Your Life On It are registered trademarks; and WD VelociRaptor, IcePack, RAFF, and NoTouch are trademarks of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Other marks may be mentioned herein that belong to other companies. Pictures shown may vary from actual product. Not all products may be available in all regions of the world. All product and packaging speciﬁcations subject to change without notice.

As used for storage capacity, one megabyte (MB) = one million bytes, one gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes, and one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. As used for transfer rate or interface, megabyte per second (MB/s) = one million bytes per second, and gigabit per second (Gb/s) = one billion bits per second.