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   #34. Posted at 10:01 AM on Sep 1st 2008 Edit   Reply
oneofthem
i misread "FAL" into "FAIL"
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#34, Same here (-:  :  fpsduck  (#35)  «

   #8. Posted at 03:02 PM on Aug 28th 2008 Edit   Reply
FroBozz_Inc
I'll take 4 and a Drobo, please. *sigh*
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#8, dude, heck yeah.  :  derFunkenstein  (#33)  «

   #1. Posted at 11:32 AM on Aug 28th 2008 Edit   Reply
Meadows
I want to overclock this drive.
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#1, I want to underclock this comment.  :  UberGerbil  (#5)  «
#5, Denied!  :  Meadows  (#7)  «
#7, Overruled!!  :  SomeOtherGeek  (#13)  «
#13, Come now, it's a dualcore harddrive!  :  Meadows  (#16)  «
#13, Objection!  :  DASQ  (#21)  «
#1, I always thought that would be cool, for some reason. Yea, I...  :  grantmeaname  (#28)  «
#28, The fact that all the drive electronics is tuned to the r...  :  UberGerbil  (#29)  «
#29, [deadpan]write only could be very useful. [/deadpan]  :  grantmeaname  (#32)  «

   #6. Posted at 02:31 PM on Aug 28th 2008 Edit   Reply
UberGerbil
Five year warranty, too. There goes the last temptation to stick to Seagate.
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#6, If the price is about the same as the Seagate, then yes. If ...  :  adisor19  (#23)  «
#23, Yeah for sure. I just picked up a Seagate 1TB Barracuda 7...  :  PetMiceRnice  (#31)  «

   #30. Posted at 02:11 PM on Aug 30th 2008, Edited at 02:13 PM on Aug 30th 2008 Edit   Reply
yehuda
Thanks much for this review. I'd like to see WD6400AACS reviewed too. This model, which is part of the Caviar Green series, is apparently the first that guarantees 320GB platters.
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   #17. Posted at 05:35 AM on Aug 29th 2008 Edit   Reply
redavni
This was an exceedingly well written review. I might have liked a few more detours into nerdy details (StableTrac?), but it was one of the most readable hardware reviews I've come across in a while on any site.

I salute you mr. hard drive reviewer guy, have yourself a bud light :P
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#17, Or a real beer, too.  :  indeego  (#27)  «

   #24. Posted at 02:09 PM on Aug 29th 2008 Edit   Reply
donkeycrock
why dont they put raid directly on the drive. just think raid 0 with four platters, how sweet would that be.
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#24, That would require independent control of each head. While t...  :  draksia  (#25)  «
#24, -bandwidth -spof -nonstandard -errors checked by drive or contr...  :  indeego  (#26)  «

   #22. Posted at 10:46 AM on Aug 29th 2008 Edit   Reply
DASQ
Considering you can get the Seagate 1TB Barracuda for $140 now (Canadian), this drive shouldn't be this expensive.
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   #2. Posted at 11:41 AM on Aug 28th 2008 Edit   Reply
Krogoth
Hmmmm, I could get 4 of them are setup a 3TB RAID 5 array.

To store what? Pr0n!
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#2, 3TB I can see you're still only starting out ;)  :  Pax-UX  (#20)  «

   #19. Posted at 08:38 AM on Aug 29th 2008 Edit   Reply
Imperor
Anybody on TR seen the new Seagate 1,5TB drive yet? No idea how many platters or anything but it should be nice and dense, ~375GB/platter, unless they've managed to squeeze five in there, and it supposedly draws less power than the 1TB model. It's specified at 8W Idle which is about par with 1,5x a WD Green 1TB.
Maybe it hasn't hit the stores yet but it'll be nice to see a review of that one!

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=st31500341a...arracuda-7200-11-sata-32mb-c-1.5tb-hd&vgnextoid=...[e.com]
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   #14. Posted at 11:13 PM on Aug 28th 2008 Edit   Reply
AbRASiON
I look forward to 500gb platters plz, with 32 or 64mb of cache.

I still want to see dual heads per platter too

Instead of this /
They should have Y
2 heads, only has to travel half the distance - HOT
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#14, As I recall from earlier discussions on TR (most likely JBI ...  :  IntelMole  (#18)  «

   #15. Posted at 01:25 AM on Aug 29th 2008 Edit   Reply
mako
This is probably the first hardware review that forced me to look up an unfamiliar word. Thanks, TR.
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   #10. Posted at 05:46 PM on Aug 28th 2008 Edit   Reply
Fighterpilot
Was that a Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.4GHz (Northwood) used for the testing?
What a nice chip they were...
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#10, Ah, yea... The good ol' days!!  :  SomeOtherGeek  (#12)  «

   #11. Posted at 07:22 PM on Aug 28th 2008 Edit   Reply
SomeOtherGeek
Yea, great review about the SE16... Oh wait, it was about the Black, no... No... It was about the SE16, that's right! Nice to be on the right track. Getting me some of them SE16s!
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   #9. Posted at 04:42 PM on Aug 28th 2008 Edit   Reply
MadManOriginal
Interesting, but aside from the capacity I'm not sure it's worth the premium over the 6400AAKS, and there are less expensive 1TB drives out there for mass storage. This drive seems to have overshot the value metric, at least for desktop use, with things like dual processors and extra cache that apparently don't make a huge difference. I was really hoping WD would put out a Blue series 1TB but I guess not and now it seems like there's a gap in the lineup. The absolute price difference isn't that much, just the percentage.
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   #4. Posted at 01:36 PM on Aug 28th 2008 Edit   Reply
Ryu Connor
I dropped four of these into a DNS-343 NAS about two weeks ago in RAID5.

Can't say I have any complaints. :)
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   #3. Posted at 01:32 PM on Aug 28th 2008 Edit   Reply
Prototyped
YEA

Thanks for the review. I guess you were already reviewing the drive (or more likely, were done with it) when I requested it in the comments to the system guide yesterday. :p
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