2.5 Inch VelociRaptor WD3000BLFS?

Curios to know if this exists or not, but apparently its listed on several sites along with Western digitals as a 2.5inch 10k rpm drive.

Has this already been posted, or has anyone had a look into it?

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=494

I could be completely wrong though, just curious about this.

Credit to dead2theworld for finding this.

 

Take a look at the specs...it uses somewhere around 3x as much power as a standard laptop hard drive. It is meant for the server market, where cooling capabilities are much better than a laptop's capabilities. Not to mention it comes in a 15mm thick form factor, which is much larger than the 9.5mm hard drives used in most notebooks and the 12.5mm laptop hard drives that fit into only a few notebooks anyway.

If you're asking about it being put into a notebook...forget it .

 

Haha, dang, thanks for clearing that up Greg, your right, i'd need to be running an ice box inside of my machine to keep that right.

I feel stupid xD.

 

Temperature wise, it's actually not bad (it doesn't even need the heatsink, that's more for adapting it to 3.5" bays). The problem is mainly height (15mm) and power supply (12V - the notebook only supplies 5V).

 

No, you don't feel stupid. You just wish you could have a faster hard drive .

I'm still fairly sure that without a heatsink you're going to need better cooling for the drives. You don't consume 3x more power without some kind of downside .

 

Are there ever cases where notebooks have stacked HDD trays?

And yeah, without the power requirement, it just wouldn't happen lol.

Haha definately Greg, my 5400 RPM Toshiba drive isn't the fastest out there.

 

Oh, its been a long time since I've heard of a notebook that has stacked drive bays. Not sure if you could even put a 15mm drive in there without having the modify the case!

The only way I can see a laptop user taking advantage of this drive is with an external enclosure and a separate power adapter over eSATA or USB 3.0.

 

Mind you, My MSI drive bay actually has some space left (I'm sure,) i think the 15mm height requirement may actually work, i'd need some batteries for the rest though lol.

They also need to remove it from the notebook section .

 

I know the D900F, and I think the older D900C/D901C had a stacked bay. But yes, I'm pretty sure all the Velociraptors are 2.5" drives, and that none of them will go in our notebooks without some serious modification.

 

I can verify that the Western Digital VelociRaptor gets quite hot under a full load, even with the IcePack it's installed in.

I own the 300GB version of this hard drive (WD3000HLFS) and while I find it to be a terrific HDD, you are entirely correct, the downside is in its heat signature.