Western Digital has a proven ability to take action in today’s ever changing market requirements.  It delivers to a new market the same quality, reliability and on-time delivery that has made Western Digital synonymous within the current P.C. market place.   Therefore the change around from 3 1/2" format to 2 1/2" format has been amazing.   Though many enterprise companies are making the switch to energy efficient blades and this drive will just fit the bill nicely.  

Over the past two years, other hard drive manufacturers have been working hard playing catch up to the performance level of the WD1500 or it has been cutely known as the Raptor X leaving many consumers to wonder how Western Digital would respond.   Respond they most certainly have with what we have seen below and overleaf.  Though before we proceed lets have a quick recap on the old WD1500 Raptor X and todays new screaming WD3000GLFS VelociRaptor.

So let’s firstly look at a few salient facts that need to be covered, though many of these facts will have a few salivating;

Form Factor

•3.5-inch, 10,000 RPM (2.5-inch HDA, 15mm z-height)
•2 platters, 4 heads
•Ships mounted in the WD-IcePAK™for placement into 3.5-inch slot

Program/Product Lines

•WD VelociRaptor
•Product family –VR150
•Model –WD3000GLFS