There's no denying WD's WD740 Raptor series of performance desktop and enterprise drives have earned a solid reputation in the enthusiast community as some of the fastest SATA drives on the market. Tonight we take a look at WD's third generation Raptor, the Raptor WD1500 series and it's tricked out cousin the window-modded Raptor X.

With capacity at 150GB, 10K RPM spindle speed and a 16MB buffer, the new Raptor is incorporates a wealth of new enhancements that we've all been waiting for and it shows in the numbers.