Western Digital Velociraptor 300GB SATA HD

Name: Western Digital Velociraptor 300GB SATA HD - Page 10
Brand: Western

by Marco Chiappetta — Monday, April 21, 2008, 07:45 AM EDT

Although hard drives don't typically draw huge amounts of power, we still wanted to see how the Velociraptor compared to its peets in terms of power consumption. Throughout all of our benchmarking and testing, we monitored how much power our test system was consuming using a power meter. Our goal was to give you all an idea as to how much power each configuration used while idling and under load. Please keep in mind that we were testing total system power consumption at the outlet here, not just the power being drawn by the drives alone.

Power Consumption

As Reported by Seasonic Power Angel

Somewhat surprisingly, despite offering the best overall performance, the WD Velociraptor also consumes the least amount of power. The deltas are quite small amongst the three newest drives (the Velociraptor, Caviar SE16 WD64000AAKS, and RE WD1000FYPS), with only a single watt or two separating the drives, but the Velociraptor was lowest nonetheless.

Tags: Western Digital, Hard Drive, Raptor, HD, SATA, Digital, VelociRaptor, GB, ita, TAL, Tor, AP

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com