Toms Hardware har haft Western Digitals nye vidunder til test.
Som altid er der kommet en dybdegående artikel ud af det, hvor de bland andet sammenligner den med adskillelige setups. Der bliver især sat fokus på raid i artiklen.
"Finally, we have a new high-performance enthusiast hard drive that is capable of beating its competition in the blink of an eye. Of course it's the high rotation speed of 10,000 RPM that lets the Raptor perform noticeably better than any 7,200 RPM drive in everyday uses. This applies to both access time and data transfer performance, and it helps to further reduce the annoying little delays inherent in everyday PC operation." http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/02/06/wd1500ad_raptor_xtends_performance_lead/index.html