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Posted at 11:42 AM on Tuesday 04/13/10 by
Ben
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Newegg has the Western Digital Caviar Green 1.5TB SATA Hard Drive WD15EARS (Bare Drive) for $100 - $10 off with coupon code EMCYRZP83 [Exp 4/19] = $90 with free shipping. Features a large 64MB buffer, 100MBps internal data transfer rate, and is covered by a 3-year warranty. [Compare]
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    swreynolds - Posted 11:58 am PDT 04/13/10 (911 Posts)  Report Spam

    64MB buffer=4MB Sectors.
    I haven't tried one of these with XP, but I'll bet the 10% degradation that I've read about is way off.

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    samijubal - Posted 1:32 pm PDT 04/13/10 (1105 Posts)  Report Spam

    You just need to use WD's alignment tool. Not the big deal everyone keeps trying to make it up to be. Soon all drives will have 4K sectors. May as well get used to it.

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    hurl3.0 - Posted 4:22 pm PDT 04/13/10 (2483 Posts)  Report Spam

    i have one of thsee running on xp, single partition slave. no problems.

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    baconbits - Posted 6:12 pm PDT 04/13/10 (385 Posts)  Report Spam

    I have no idea what you guys are talking about. Explain please.

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