Other World Computing, Macsales home page Product Highlights Apple OS X and Apple OS X support OWC contact and support information FAQs, Online Videos, Updaters, and other product support information Check the status of an already placed order Battery, Memory, Hard Drive, Accessory items and more for Apple PowerBook and iBook models Battery Replacements, Cases, FM Transmitters, accessory items for Apple iPod DDR, SDRam, SIMMs, DIMMs, SO-DIMMs 128MB, 256MB, 512MB, 1GB, 2GB for Macs and PC Desktop and Notebook Hard Drive upgrades 1394A, 1394B storage solutions, hubs, cables, enclosure kits, pci cards, and more Internal and External DVD Burners, CD Burners, Media, Cases CPU Processor Upgrades for G3 and G4 Apple, Mac Video Upgrades Check Out / View Your Shopping Cart Audio Hardware and Software Video Hardware iPhone Contact
 
Other World Computing Reseller and Manufacturer of Mac Products Quick and Reliable Delivery from OWC! - Quality Products, Competitive Prices, Top Service - Delivery from as low as $2.95
 
   
Search:
View Our Site Map

Description: Ships: Price:
150GB Western Digital "Raptor" 10,000 RPM 16MB Cache Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Drive - The ultimate in SATA performance! 5yr Warranty. (WDGWD1500ADFD) Same Day $189.99
Add to Your Basket:
Western Digital

WD Raptor®
SATA Hard Drives
150 GB, 1.5 Gb/s, 16 MB Cache, 10,000 RPM

1.2 Million Hours MTBF
World's Fastest SATA Drive
5-year Limited Warranty


Some hard drive companies design desktop-class drives with the SATA interface. To meet the demands of enterprise storage, WD is going one better. WD is the only company combining a 10,000 RPM enterprise-class mechanical platform with the SATA interface to meet all the demands of the enterprise environment—reliability, performance, and reduced cost.


WD produces the world’s most reliable SATA drives. With 1.2 million hours MTBF, enterprise duty cycle, 5-year limited warranty, next-generation SATA technology, and state-of-the-art vibration tolerance, WD Raptor drives offer the best combination of reliability, high capacity, and performance for enterprise applications.

Key Features

Reliable - Designed and manufactured to enterprise-class standards to provide enterprise reliability in high duty cycle environments. With 1.2 million hours MTBF, these drives have the highest available reliability rating on a high capacity drive.

Fast - With a next-generation SATA interface, 1.5 Gb/s data transfer rate, native command queuing (NCQ), and 16 MB cache, these drives deliver optimum performance.

RAID-specific, time-limited error recovery (TLER) - A feature unique to WD, prevents drive fallout caused by the extended hard drive error-recovery processes common to desktop drives.

Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF™) - Optimizes operation and performance when the drives are used in vibration-prone, multidrive systems such as rack-mounted servers or network storage.

5-year limited warranty

Ideal For

  • Servers
  • network attached storage
  • scientific computing
  • video surveillance
  • enterprise backup
  • document and image management
  • digital video.

 

 


Specifications

Performance Specifications
Rotational Speed 10,000 RPM (nominal)
Buffer Size 16 MB
Average Latency 2.99 ms (nominal)
Start/Stop Cycles 20,000 minimum
Warranty 5-year Limited Warranty
 
Seek Times
Read Seek Time 4.6 ms
Write Seek Time 5.2 ms (average)
Track-To-Track Seek Time 0.4 ms (average)
Full Stroke Seek 10.2 ms (average)
   
Transfer Rates
Buffer To Host (Serial ATA) 1.5 Gb/s (Max)
Buffer To Disk 84 MB/s (Sustained)
   
Physical Specifications
Formatted Capacity 150,039 MB
Capacity 150 GB
Interface SATA 1.5 Gb/s
User Sectors Per Drive 293,046,768
   
Physical Dimensions
English
Height 1.028 Inches (Max)
Length 5.787 Inches (Max)
Width 4.00 Inches (± 0.010 inch)
Weight 1.81 Pounds
   
Metric
Height 26.1 mm (Max)
Length 147 mm (Max)
Width 101.6 mm
Weight 0.822 kg
   
   
Environmental Specifications
Shock
Operating Shock (Read) 65G, 2 ms
Non-operating Shock 250G, 1 ms
   
Acoustics
Idle Mode 29 dBA (average)
Seek Mode 0 36 dBA (average)
   
Temperature (English)
Operating 41° F to 131° F
Non-operating -40° F to 149° F
   
Temperature (Metric)
Operating 5° C to 55° C
Non-operating -40° C to 65° C
   
Humidity
Operating 5-95% RH non-condensing
Non-operating 5-95% RH non-condensing
   
Altitude (English)
Operating -1,000 feet to 10,000 feet
Non-operating -1,000 feet to 40,000 feet
   
Altitude (Metric)
Operating -305M to 3,050M
Non-operating -305M to 12,200M
   
Vibration
Operating
Linear 10-300 Hz, 3.0G (0 to peak)
Random 10-300 Hz, 0.008 g² / Hz
   
Non-operating
Low Frequency 10-300 Hz, 0.195 inches (double amplitude)
High Frequency 300-500 Hz, 5.0G (0 to peak)
   
Electrical Specifications
Current Requirements
12 VDC
Read/Write 470 mA
Idle 375 mA
Standby 18.75 mA
Sleep 18.75 mA
   
5 VDC  
Read/Write 875 mA
Idle 938 mA
Standby 488 mA
Sleep 450 mA
   
Power Dissipation  
Read/Write 10.02 Watts
Idle 9.19 Watts
Standby 2.66 Watts
Sleep 2.48 Watts
 
OWC Customer Comments BizRate BBB Online VeriSign Secured Green ITLEED - Thinks Green. OWC offers many options for payment and shipping. OWC offers many options for payment and shipping. Contact Us
Copyright 2000-2008 Other World Computing, All Rights Reserved.
About Us, Load Time: 0.011 seconds