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When searching for hard drives to meet your digital storage needs, your choice may depend upon the part's reliability and convenience. The Western Digital WD3000HLFS HDD's capabilities are sure to meet your expectations. It incorporates a potent mix of high-end HDD features to offer operating excellence, razor-edge performance, and hot-swapping capabilities. In line with its reputation for high quality and versatility, Western Digital has produced an internal SATA II drive to meet a broad spectrum of needs.Selecting the right piece of hardware for your needs is a process. A hard drive's foundational value lies in its ability to maintain continual reliability. Western Digital's VelociRaptor 300GB Internal 10000RPM 3.5-inch WD3000HLFS HDD raises the bar for part reliability. It offers a Mean Time Between Failures, or MTBF, of 1.4 million hours. This feature-rich drive is an example of the manufacturer's penchant for providing consistent reliability. It is compatible with Windows Vista and XP and is suitable for use in servers.Whether for games, business, or media, Western Digital delivers a hard drive model built to handle any customer's needs. With 300GB of storage, you don't need to pick and choose which software or digital media can stay. The WD3000HLFS offers plenty of room for large collections. Additionally, the next-generation SATA II interface supports data-transfer rates of up to 3.0 GB/s. The 2.5-inch Western Digital Velociraptor is enclosed in a backplane-ready 3.5-inch enterprise-class mounting frame. Compact and lightweight, the unit measures 4 by 5.8 by 1 inches to fit securely into your machine, and its weight of about 1 pound doesn't weigh down your computer. It also has a built-in heat sink that keeps this powerful little drive cool for high performance. For a hard drive with a SATA II interface capable of a mind-bending 10,000RPM, a cool environment is paramount. The cooling technology in this HDD is designed to consume less power when in operation, saving you money on utility bills.Incredible general capacity isn't the only feature Western Digital has managed to offer with the WD3000HLFS. The 3.5-inch form factor hard disk includes a 16MB cache. This fetches your most frequently used data at breakneck speeds. A high temporary cache combines with blazing-fast SATA II read/write speeds to help you save valuable time no matter what you use your computer for. This buffer rate is especially helpful for running multiple programs at once or running a single high-demand application such as a game or design software. As enterprise-environment hard drive users know, with great RPM comes great expectations. This stunning SATA II VelociRaptor is even capable of native hot-swapping capabilities for similar parts. The no-touch ramp loading feature ensures less wear and tear on the recording head.Everyone is able to meet their storage needs with this member of the VelociRaptor line of Western Digital hard drives. You get an excellent RPM rate that lets you access files and programs at lightning speed when your work is demanding. The SATA II read/write speeds let this VelociRaptor deliver a killer combination of reliability and capacity.