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Western Digital VelociRaptor WD4500HLHX 450GB 10000 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Harddrive

Western Digital VelociRaptor WD4500HLHX 450GB 10000 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Harddrive for $129.99 + free shipping

Oct 3, 2011 8:18 AM

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Who the heck downvoted this? Where else can you find it cheaper?

lll0228 lll0228
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@lll0228: people that dont know jack about computers and all they know is the 1TB, 2TB, 3TB externals that peopele post here.

So either the person that voted it down doesn't know HD's have different seeds or they hate me.

magicgoat magicgoat
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I almost bought one but then was scared away because of heat issues. The size of that heat sink leads me to believe it will overheat inside of my liquid-cooled case. I don't have a fan blowing on my hard drives so there's a high possibility of a failure since I leave my computer on 24 hours a day.

cengland0 cengland0
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ssd drives are the way to go I am just hoping there are some good deals on some larger size ones around thanksgiving. But I have never had heat issues with my 10k rpm drives (but none of them are this large).

magicgoat magicgoat
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I owned a few generations of WD Velociraptors before going SSD and loved the drives, never had an issue. I wish I had a good use for this deal. However, for a performance drive which ends up being the OS and apps, you can do better for not that much more..and you don't need 450gb. And for a storage drive, many of which are much larger, you can get cheaper and not really need the extra speed here. This drive/deal is in the weird middle ground of above average performance and below average capacity. Perhaps if a guy would buy 4-6 of them and RAID0 or RAID10 them..you'd get near the speed of RAID0 SSD and have decent capacity.

brendel007 brendel007
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@lll0228: You have a Fan or more likely a Negative Vote Stalker...

I have at least one of my own and always respond to the drive-by negative votes with a "hugs and kisses" back at them...

hobbitss hobbitss
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I used an older version of the Western Digital Raptor. It died after about a years use. Tried to mail it in for warranty, but USPS lost it. :mad:

firebirdude firebirdude
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I had two of the 150gb Velociraptors die on me in roughly one year. I hope they've made some changes since then.

antipode antipode
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Like others, I would prefer to go with a SSD that will give me slightly smaller capacity but faster speed and more reliability. I have had one of these and they were ok but wasn't something that made a huge difference in my systems speed.

I recently purchased one of the m4 crucial SATA 3 SSDs and it was a night and day difference.

This is a good deal if you are dead set on a spindle drive whose probability to fail increases exponentially as time goes on due to the moving parts as opposed to a ssd that has a high probability of outlasting all of your platter drives.

justincredibleg justincredibleg
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This is a little bit like buying the last VCR complete with HDMI out and Dolby 7.1.
Its still a dinosaur, but I think this drive striped will out perform and be much cheaper than SSDs if you need to write A LOT of data REALLY fast.

superccs superccs
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The play is the thing ...
This will NOT make your Net Pron faster, or your email, or your typing.
But IFF you have a small business with a dozen heavy users AND you RAID these in a NAS you may find some decent speed increases.
IF you are a heavy photoshop aficionado and you are batch looping a couple thousand pics at a time, this may help if you are copying from one drive, editing, and writing to another.
If you are getting one of those cheepazz servers that can take these drives, buy eight and go forth.
Otherwise, buy two 2tb drives for about the same price, stripe them and enjoy your wood.

Like a pair of those Samsung 1.5s on the right, for example. The sale is over, so they're $60 each. Times two is $120. For 3tb.

gidgaf gidgaf
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@magicgoat: Or they realize that buying a velociraptor is a waste of money because it's speeds are all on par with samsung spinpoint F3 drives that cost 1/4 the price or less and anyone who really wants a speedy hard drive will buy a SSD.

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