Killer speed – Built on the performance bloodlines of WD Raptor®, these 10,000 RPM drives, with SATA 3 Gb/s interface, and 16 MB cache deliver mind-bending performance. Not only are they 35% faster than the previous generation WD Raptor drives, but they also beat out all other COMPETITORS in the field. 

Rock-solid reliability – Designed and MANUFACTURED to mission-critical enterprise-class standards to provide enterprise reliability in high duty cycle environments. With 1.4 million hours MTBF, these drives have the highest available reliability rating on a high capacity SATA drive. 

Double the capacity – State-of-the-art TECHNOLOGY packs twice the capacity per disk compared to its older brother WD Raptor resulting in up to 300 GB of high-performance storage space in this enterprise-class 2.5-inch drive. 

Ultra-cool operation – WD VelociRaptor consumes 35% less power than the previous generation of WD Raptor. 

Small form factor – This ultra fast 2.5-inch hard drive is engineered to fit into blade servers and other enterprise storage configurations. (Not designed for use in laptop or notebook computers)

Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF™) – Optimizes operation and performance when the drives are used in vibration-prone, multi-drive chassis. 

NoTouch™ ramp load TECHNOLOGY – The recording head never touches the disk media ensuring significantly less wear to the recording head and media as well as better drive protection in transit.

Ideal For – Blade servers, performance enthusiast systems, workstations, and low-end servers 

Drive specification

WD1500BFLS

Formatted Gbytes (512 bytes/SECTOR)

150

Spindle speed (RPM)

10,000

I/O data transfer rate (MBps)

300

Cache buffer

16 Mbytes

Interface Type

Serial ATA-300

Average latency

3.00 ms

Seek time (read / write) ms

4.2 / 4.7

Track-to-track seek

0.7 ms

Track-to-track seek – Write

0.4 ms (average), 0.75 (maximum)

Dimensions (HxLxW) inches

0.5905 / 3.9369  / 2.7499

Weight

0.48 lbs

Operating Shock (Read)

65G, 2ms

Non-operating Shock

300G, 2ms

Temperature – Operating

41F – 131F

Temperature – Non-operating

-40F – 158F

Current Requirements 12VDC (Read/Write, Idle, Standby, Sleep)

225ma / 200ma / 6ma / 6ma

Current Requirements 5VDC (Read/Write, Idle, Standby, Sleep)

675ma / 425ma / 70ma / 70ma