Conclusion

With its stellar performance at or beyond those of some 15k SCSI drives, the 74GB Raptor will surely continue to take bites out of its SCSI competition.  In workstation usage, this drive proves to be an excellent choice for boot up duties, as well as a scratch disk too.  The best part is that its cost per gigabyte is far below that of SCSI drives.  It has a ways to go in competing against some of today's newest (and very fast) 7200 RPM mega-drives, but I'm sure WD has a new Raptor successor waiting to be released from its cage.

Performance:   98%

Cost per Gig:  70%

Reliability:  100%

Noise and Heat:  97%

OVERALL SCORE:  91%