Western Digital WD1500AHFD - Raptor X 150 GB Hard Drive Installation instructions

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From the secret performance labs at WD comes the revolutionary
WD Raptor X SATA hard drive, the first ever drive with a view. Offspring of
the immensely popular WD Raptor, the fastest SATA drive on the planet,
the WD Raptor X focuses a large, crystal-clear lens on the drive to let you
see into the inner workings and witness the drive in action.
Sounds simple? It's not. With over two years of research and development
behind it, the WD Raptor X is engineered to compromise nothing. At
10,000 RPM spin speed, it delivers the killer speed of its illustrious parent,
doubles the capacity to 150 GB, and provides enterprise-class reliability.
This is the ultimate hard drive for PC performance enthusiasts everywhere.
Product Benefits
The world’s first clear cover hard drive
The world’s fastest SATA drive – 10,000 RPM, 4.6 ms average seek time. Bred
from WD Raptor–the gold standard for performance.
Crystalline polycarbonate lens – provides clarity, structural integrity, electrostatic
discharge (ESD) protection, durability, and chemical neutrality necessary for the
highest performance and reliability.
Native Command Queuing (NCQ) – increases data transfer in high-performance
multi-processor, multi-threaded environments.
Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF™)– optimizes operation and
performance when drives are used in vibration-prone, multi-drive systems. Patent
pending.
5-year limited warranty – nothing has been compromised in quality and reliability
to manufacture these unique hard drives. WD is proud to back them with our
enterprise-class 5-year limited warranty.
The WD Promise
WD understands the importance of the information you save to your hard
drive and we are committed to protecting that data with exceptionally
reliable products, advanced data protection technology, and superior
customer support. No one does more to safeguard your data than WD.
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SATA 1.5 Gb/s
3.5-inch/1-inch
10,000 RPM
Note: Not all products
may be available in all
regions of the world.
WD1500AHFD
WD Raptor®X
SATA Hard Drives
Crystal-clear Lens
Killer Speed
Unsurpassed Reliability
150 GB

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Physical Specifications
Performance Specifications
150 GB
Formatted capacity1150,039 MB
User sectors per drive 293,046,768
WD model number WD1500AHFD
SATA latching connector Yes
Bytes per sector (STD) 512
Form factor 3.5-inch
Interface SATA 1.5 Gb/s
RoHS compliant2Yes
Average latency 2.99 ms
Buffer 16 MB
Cache
Read Adaptive
Write Yes
Data transfer rate (buffer to host) 1.5 Gb/s (maximum) 3
Drive ready time 7.0 sec (average), 10 sec (maximum)
Error rate (non-recoverable) <1 in 1015 bits read
LBA support Yes
Rotational speed 10,000 RPM
Seek time
Read 4.6 ms (average)
Write 5.2 ms (average)
Track-to-track seek time
Read 0.3 ms (average), 0.6 (maximum)
Write 0.4 ms (average), 0.75 (maximum)
Start/stop cycles 20,000 minimum
Limited warranty45-year
For service and literature:
support.wdc.com
www.westerndigital.com
800.ASK.4WDC North America
949.672.7199 Spanish
+800.6008.6008 Asia Pacific
+31.20.4467651 EMEA
Western Digital and WD Raptor are
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logo, RAFF, and FIT Lab are trademarks of
Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Other
marks may be mentioned herein that belong
to other companies. Product specifications
subject to change without notice.
© 2007 Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Western Digital
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Lake Forest, California 92630
U.S.A.
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WD Raptor X
SATA Hard Drives
1One gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes. One terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on
operating environment.
2WD products manufactured and sold worldwide after August 1, 2005, meet or exceed Restriction of Hazardous Substances
(RoHS) compliance requirements as mandated by the European Union for electrical and electronic products. The RoHS
Directive 2002/95/EC of the European Parliament, which is effective in the EU beginning July 1, 2006, aims to protect
human health and the environment by restricting the use of certain hazardous substances in new equipment, and consists of
restrictions on lead, mercury, cadmium, and other substances.
3Maximum burst rate running the specified SATA transfer mode.
4Standard five-year limited warranty, unless otherwise required by law. For extended warranty information,
visit our Web site at support.wdc.com.