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- Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (parts): 5 years
- Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (labor): 5 years
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Great HDD
- Pros: Western digital works fine
- Cons: none
Very Nice
- Pros: Working great connected to a Biostar TF720 A2+ motherboard.
- Cons: None.
Extremely Poor Performance
- Pros: The drives worked...
- Cons: Miserable speed.
I purchased two of these for a RAID 0 setup. After hooking them up, I installed my OS, drivers, and necessary applications for benchmarking.
These drives, while together in RAID 0, got an average read speed of ~100MB/s. Most other drives in its price range, perform at about 200MB/s in RAID 0. I even assumed my motherboard's RAID was bad and purchased another PCI-E x1 RAID card. After installing the new card and setting up my system again, the scores had actually lowered.
My next thought was that perhaps one of the drives was performing poorly and slowing down the RAID. So, I disabled the raid and reinstalled both as single drives. I tested the performance of each drive on their own to which they each scored pathetically low scores of about 52MB/s read. That's slower than my WD 320GB SATA1 drive. I'm now in the process of RMAing these to get something good.
If it gives you a better idea, my 1.5TB single Seagate performed better than these two drives in RAID
- Other Thoughts: I'm giving two stars simply because they did work. Just very poorly.
I've been a fan of Western Digital for a long time, but this has completely warped my perspective.
| Model |
| Brand |
Western Digital |
| Series |
Caviar RE |
| Model |
WD1600YS |
| Packaging |
Bare Drive |
| Performance |
| Interface |
SATA 3.0Gb/s |
| Capacity |
160GB |
| RPM |
7200 RPM |
| Cache |
16MB |
| Average Latency |
4.2ms |
| Physical Spec |
| Form Factor |
3.5" |
| Features |
| Features |
Reliability in high duty cycle environments - Utilizing enterprise-class manufacturing processes, these drives are designed with enhanced reliability in a 24x7, high duty cycle environment.
Built to last - Made for years of high-performance operation around the clock. Reliability demonstration testing indicates a mean time between failure (MTBF) of one million hours.
RAID-specific time limited error recovery - Improves error handling coordination with RAID adapters and prevents drive fallout caused by extended drive error-recovery processes.
Fluid dynamic bearing (FDB) motor - Improves hard drive reliability; reduces heat, vibration, and noise.
Improved power controller - Consumes less power and generates low heat.
FlexPower - Connector technology that accepts power from either industry-standard or new SATA power supplies.
Hot plug support - Allows swapping of hard drives without having to power down the system or reboot; promotes system design flexibility, data availability, and serviceability.
Backplane compatibility - Uses the SATA industry standard connector which includes alignment ears and 3-stage electrical mating sequence, designed specifically for backplanes and hot pluggability. |
| Manufacturer Warranty |
| Parts |
5 years limited |
| Labor |
5 years limited |
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Reviewed By: itspecialist135 on 3/16/2009
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
