sivartk said: would be better with 32MB cache, but good price.
What is the warranty like on an OEM?
Yes yes, more cache, but more cache is more heat and this drive is designed quite the opposite.
I've run benchmarks on them and, quite frankly, they're still great all the way out to the edge of the spindle. I'll be replacing all my WD 500 AAKs's with these.
I own 3 WD Green drives and love them- can't hear'em at all.
edit: OK, since I'm picking up red, let me explain: When you have two drives and one has MORE ram, that extra RAM must emit more heat. Thus, having green drive with more ram in it would mean: More Heat.
purduephotog said: sivartk said: would be better with 32MB cache, but good price.
What is the warranty like on an OEM?
Yes yes, more cache, but more cache is more heat and this drive is designed quite the opposite.
I've run benchmarks on them and, quite frankly, they're still great all the way out to the edge of the spindle. I'll be replacing all my WD 500 AAKs's with these.
I own 3 WD Green drives and love them- can't hear'em at all.
Not usually. Heat is more a function of angular momentum. Before some one posts claiming that these are 5400 rpm drive here is an evaluation from a reputable that specializes in professional gear 3D Professor like workstations and servers. They have their own spec.org registration which none of the popular sites have. Interestingly this drive is faster than or a dead heat with the 32gb Seagate in professional benchmarks. By that I mean benchmarks developed by IEEE and ASTM through spec.org. Good find OP.
Nice find, been looking for a deal on this drive. It's over on ZipZoomfly for $136 shipped, but I like the extra $6 off and FatCash. Don't know where the OP sees 3% though, I only see 1%.
For all who go for this deal, check out the combo offers. I did and picked up a 1.5' SATA cable for free after discount. There was a deal with a 3' cable for free after discount as well. No rebates, just free.
Qty Product Description Price 1 Nippon Labs 18" (1.5 ft.) SATA II Cable with locking latch Model SATA-L0.5-R Item #: N82E16812816027 Standard Return Policy $6.99 1 Western Digital Caviar GP WD10EACS 1TB 5400 to 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive Item #: N82E16822136151 Limited 30-Day Return Policy $129.99 Shipping Method: $0.00 1 DISCOUNT FOR COMBO #124459 -$6.99 Subtotal $129.99 Tax $0.00 Shipping $0.00 Order Total $129.99
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rally9x
Member
posted: Sep. 12, 2008 @ 11:01p
I was looking at an SSD review the otherday and was surprised to see that when it comes to unzipping/unraring applications these drives are pretty much the fastest out their, very strange anomaly, but yet another reason why these are awesome storage drives. At these prices I may replace my 8 drive 400gb ide raid with 4 of these which would probably be something like 40 watts to 10 watts so would pay for itself fairly quickly probably.
In a hardware raid the size of the cache doesn't matter either so that doesn't effect me at all.
rally9x said: I was looking at an SSD review the otherday and was surprised to see that when it comes to unzipping/unraring applications these drives are pretty much the fastest out their, very strange anomaly, but yet another reason why these are awesome storage drives. At these prices I may replace my 8 drive 400gb ide raid with 4 of these which would probably be something like 40 watts to 10 watts so would pay for itself fairly quickly probably.
In a hardware raid the size of the cache doesn't matter either so that doesn't effect me at all.
just remember to use WDTLER to decrease the recovery time of the disk and avoiding it being dropped off the RAID.
cnIsfg said: How exactly does more cache equal more heat?How exactly does more cache = more performance on this drive? Oh I know....it fools the uneducated to make them "feel" the drive is faster when it is not in reality. Welcome to marketing and the consumers lack of education...
sivartk said: would be better with 32MB cacheAh the uneducated....
IsoLate
Senior Member
posted: Sep. 13, 2008 @ 8:46a
onion said: sivartk said: would be better with 32MB cacheAh the uneducated.... Maybe if they spend 24 hours a day on Fatwallet for 4 years, they will become as educated on the topic of hard drives as you.
IsoLate said: onion said: sivartk said: would be better with 32MB cacheAh the uneducated.... Maybe if they spend 24 hours a day on Fatwallet for 4 years, they will become as educated on the topic of hard drives as you.
Welcome to the University of Ebaying.
IsoLate
Senior Member
posted: Sep. 13, 2008 @ 9:30a
GWBush said: Welcome to the University of Ebaying.
You're 8 years too late. I've been making my living on it since 2000, but thanks for reinforcing my point that nobody has all the correct facts nor may they care to have all the facts on every subject.
onion said: cnIsfg said: How exactly does more cache equal more heat?How exactly does more cache = more performance on this drive? Oh I know....it fools the uneducated to make them "feel" the drive is faster when it is not in reality. Welcome to marketing and the consumers lack of education...
You obviously aren't educated in storage. The most costly operation on a hard disk is writing so if the cache can hold the write operations while the drive is reading or writing something else it is a HUGE benefit. Especially with a slower 5400 rpm spindle. Why do you think SAN (storage area network) vendors charge so much for cache at the SAN Head end? Most of the IOPS (IO's per second) are determined by ram (cache).
Darmok said: rally9x said: I was looking at an SSD review the otherday and was surprised to see that when it comes to unzipping/unraring applications these drives are pretty much the fastest out their, very strange anomaly, but yet another reason why these are awesome storage drives. At these prices I may replace my 8 drive 400gb ide raid with 4 of these which would probably be something like 40 watts to 10 watts so would pay for itself fairly quickly probably.
In a hardware raid the size of the cache doesn't matter either so that doesn't effect me at all.
just remember to use WDTLER to decrease the recovery time of the disk and avoiding it being dropped off the RAID.
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