[Eugene]

WD’s long-awaited update to the 10,000 RPM SATA Raptor has arrived! The family’s new bellwether ups capacity up to 150 gigabytes and claims to significantly increase performance while maintaining the line’s admirable power and noise levels. Join StorageReview as we pit the Raptor WD1500 up against every currently available SCSI and SATA flagship in our comprehensive test suite!

Western Digital Raptor WD1500

Updated Jan 5th, 10 PM with the differences (or lack thereof) between two different versions of the drive.

[bokchoy]

The clear window is a little smaller than I imagined. Still cool!

[Schlotkins]

Wow - fast drive. I wish I knew if my 100 meg SAS database work would fall under single user or server work.. hmmm...

Chris

[Seb Mouren]

Hi,

I'm pleased to see SR keeping up with reviews of recent drives.

Don't you think it would be interesting to test this drive and eventually other SATA or SATA 2.5 drive with the LSI SAS1068 adapter?

It would offer us a first glimpse of current state of interoperability between SAS and SATA, and allow us to evaluate performance and stability of this solution as well as the current HBA driver implementation.

Regards,

Sébastien Mouren

[Eugene]

Seb Mouren, on Jan 3 2006, 08:55 AM, said:

Don't you think it would be interesting to test this drive and eventually other SATA or SATA 2.5 drive with the LSI SAS1068 adapter?

Sébastien Mouren

We've got a a look at how various SATA drives change performance wise when running off of different controllers such as the Si3124, LSI MegaRAID 300-8X, 3ware 9550SX, and the LSI1068.

Generally speaking, there's not much difference. To address your specific question, the 1068's single-user performance slightly lags the 3124. Multi-user exhibits a greater difference- the 1068's NCQ implementation isn't that great.

[bjorn44]

I just want to thank you for an very good review as always. Storagereview.com is my only source for news on storage news and reviews and I'll never look elsewhere. No need to!

Keep up the good work!

[Ender17]

bjorn44, on Jan 3 2006, 02:27 PM, said:

I just want to thank you for an very good review as always. Storagereview.com is my only source for news on storage news and reviews and I'll never look elsewhere. No need to!

Keep up the good work!

why was the part about the Raptor X and the differences between them removed?

[continuum]

Nice. Very nice.

Very tempting indeed...

[Buzz]

Great thorough review Eugene

[m54]

This is absolutly incredible. Thank you for a solid well written review Eugene. Any idea where you can buy this drive at? Also did WD say anything about continuing to tune for multi-user performance or is this all we're going to get?