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Nice, continue the battle of the 1TB drives! 1TB for everyone! I wonder how soon it'll take to break the 1.5TB barrier and for them to get cheaper?
Or will SSD take over?
In my opininon SSD is still too expensive per GB to take over anytime soon. I would give it at least a couple of years.
1.5TB have been on sale now for 190 earlier in the week. I am ready for 5TB drives to reduce the number of externals I need.
I expect it will take at least a couple years though...
Keep in mind that this is slower than normal desktop drives, as it rotates at 5400RPM. For a storage drive or external drive, this isn't a bad deal though.
why is bens listing a 5400RPM as a 7200? WTF?
#5, get with the program...Ben is high half the time...you are lucky he only bumped it from 5400 to 7200...wait till he's real high, you'll see.
Hey, anyone know if I can use this in an older PC with an IDE to SATA converter cable?
Thanks!
Fwiw, I have this drive in an external enclosure (Cavalry) and use it with eSata connection with great performance.
Ben doesn't update his initial ad for the specific drive, just the price. Hence why he always says with this drive "The joy when it eventually fails."
Do I get a prize?
Is this a new trend. I went to the wd page for this product and I saw no rotational speed.
well, Western Digital refuses to say what the rotational speeds are for their GP drives. The actual speeds have been determined by in depth reviews, by using latency and acoustics to determine the actual RPM. After all, many consumers would be wary of buying these if they knew that they rotate as such a slow speed.
Other companies(like Samsung) that make energy efficient versions of their desktop drives clearly state what the RPM is.
That's because these are their energy saver drivers. Depending on the load on the drives it will spin between 5200 - 7200 RPM
#12: u sure? I heard elsewhere there is a set speed and it's between 5200 and 7200 rpm
is WD better than Seagate drives?
#14 YES!
this is a myth, spread by the intentionally vague information that Western Digital posts about their hard drives. However, if you look closely enough on their website, they do admit that the drives do not vary the speed between 5400 and 7200RPM.
take a look on their website.
so, on their website, it says that the drive is set for some certain, invariable RPM, somewhere bet... [Truncated]
One of my friends bought a WD drive, and put it in their computer. When they powered the computer on, the hard drive spun up really fast(making a loud noise), and then exploded. And, I mean that literally. The platters actually smashed through the outside of the drive.
This hard drive was brand new, and under warranty. However, Western Digital refused to replace it.
So, yeah, I'd kind of favor other brands, like Samsung, and Seagate. I have heard people say that the under-warranty replacement process for Samsung is really smooth and easy.
Is there something you aren't telling us CompWiz17? Your story sounds very fishy to me. Hard drives don't explode and platters do not come apart into pieces. At least I've never heard of it. They are made of very strong metal. Also, a hard drives' protective housing was built to withstand such a force if a platter(s) should ever came apart.
Hard drive casings were engineered to prevent lawsuits. Ever try to smash a hard drive with a hammer from the outside to try to get inside? Not very easy, is it?. Something tells me you were screwing around with the drive maybe/perhaps with the protective cover unscrewed, or something, and you effed up his hard drive and you knew that tampering with it would void the warranty. That sounds more like what probably happened. Stop telling lies, apologize to your friend for what you did, then by your friend a new hard drive and let someone with knowledge install it.
omega55, stop assuming you are a lying sniffing machine who can tell through simple digital characters.
Its called anomalies.
It would be kind of hard for me to have been screwing with the drive, seeing as how I never saw it or touched it.
My friend is a guy who has been working at computer stores for years, and he is very knowledgeable about computer hardware. So, I really doubt that he'd do anything stupid, like taking the cover off a hard drive outside of a clean room.
I'll talk to him, and see if I can get more details.