Is this good pick? I did look up on their claims and pleased to see this does have ramp parking.
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What do you need it for?"We have offered them (the Arabs) a sensible way for so many years. But no, they wanted to fight. Fine! We gave them technology, the latest, the kind even Vietnam didn't have. They had double superiority in tanks and aircraft, triple in artillery, and in air defense and anti-tank weapons they had absolute supremacy. And what? Once again they were beaten. Once again they scrammed [sic]. Once again they screamed for us to come save them. Sadat woke me up in the middle of the night twice over the phone, 'Save me!' He demanded to send Soviet troops, and immediately! No! We are not going to fight for them."
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There is no WD RE4 Black.
There is Black and there is RE4, but no RE4 Black.Mann-Made Global Warming.
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Green = power conscious
black = mid-range performance
RE3/4 = higher performance (small server usually)
Velociraptors = highest performance without 10000/15000 RPM SASCap Datasheet Depot: http://www.paullinebarger.net/DS/
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RE = Raid Edition - It just accepts TLER commands and costs twice as much.RE3/4 = higher performance (small server usually)
I'm not sure the Black Editions are any better than green/blue performance-wise, I think the claim is that they're enterprise-class - that is - that they are built sturdier.
A Caviar Blue that is packed well for shipping will last a lot longer than a Black Edition that's shipped poorly. Because f this, Black Editions do not have any less of a failure rate."We have offered them (the Arabs) a sensible way for so many years. But no, they wanted to fight. Fine! We gave them technology, the latest, the kind even Vietnam didn't have. They had double superiority in tanks and aircraft, triple in artillery, and in air defense and anti-tank weapons they had absolute supremacy. And what? Once again they were beaten. Once again they scrammed [sic]. Once again they screamed for us to come save them. Sadat woke me up in the middle of the night twice over the phone, 'Save me!' He demanded to send Soviet troops, and immediately! No! We are not going to fight for them."
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AlmostOriginally posted by Uranium-235 View Post
Green = power conscious
Blue = mid-range
Black = performance
RE3/4 = RAID
Velociraptors = high performance 10,000RPM
I'm wondering what Chartreuse and Mauve will be.
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reiterating bonez, blacks are performance and RE just allows for RAID.Comment
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I think it's stupid to price gouge for raid that exist on thousands of desktop boards. This is why I don't buy WD.Comment
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Oh you're so right.Originally posted by Mad_Professor View Post
Charging more for dual processors on the PCB is such a rip-off.
How those Pentium-D's workin' for ya?
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Anyone who uses onboard RAID for anything serious especially in Windows is insane.I think it's stupid to price gouge for raid that exist on thousands of desktop boards. This is why I don't buy WD.
Even those "JMB363" or those Highpoint or Promise 3rd party RAID chips on the motherboards cost a few pennies each for the manufacturers.Charging more for dual processors on the PCB is such a rip-off.
How those Pentium-D's workin' for ya?
Pentium D -- I use it myself. The Unique was right. It is not faster than the 939 Athlon X2."We have offered them (the Arabs) a sensible way for so many years. But no, they wanted to fight. Fine! We gave them technology, the latest, the kind even Vietnam didn't have. They had double superiority in tanks and aircraft, triple in artillery, and in air defense and anti-tank weapons they had absolute supremacy. And what? Once again they were beaten. Once again they scrammed [sic]. Once again they screamed for us to come save them. Sadat woke me up in the middle of the night twice over the phone, 'Save me!' He demanded to send Soviet troops, and immediately! No! We are not going to fight for them."
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onboard raid scares me. LOL a pentium D can't compare to an Athlon x2, it's just the same thing as a dual-core P4Comment
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Athlon X2 had different core revisions. The early 939 X2s should be comparable to Pentium Ds because that's what Intel had competing with it at the time."We have offered them (the Arabs) a sensible way for so many years. But no, they wanted to fight. Fine! We gave them technology, the latest, the kind even Vietnam didn't have. They had double superiority in tanks and aircraft, triple in artillery, and in air defense and anti-tank weapons they had absolute supremacy. And what? Once again they were beaten. Once again they scrammed [sic]. Once again they screamed for us to come save them. Sadat woke me up in the middle of the night twice over the phone, 'Save me!' He demanded to send Soviet troops, and immediately! No! We are not going to fight for them."
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Desktop and high performance HD, I always put in very fast & responsive HDs.
I can get 500GB RE4 (that all I need, but have to order it in from same local store) for 80 or Hitachi 7200rpm 500GB or so, even 7K3000 series 2TB (available to buy locally). They handle the HDs rather well and I had no issues with all the HDs I had bought over the years from there.
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You're wasting your money with the RE4. I recommend Caviar Blue for standard Desktop use. And stay away from Seagate for now. Their older drives are built like tanks (I use a 7200.8 myself). Their newer stuff is trash."We have offered them (the Arabs) a sensible way for so many years. But no, they wanted to fight. Fine! We gave them technology, the latest, the kind even Vietnam didn't have. They had double superiority in tanks and aircraft, triple in artillery, and in air defense and anti-tank weapons they had absolute supremacy. And what? Once again they were beaten. Once again they scrammed [sic]. Once again they screamed for us to come save them. Sadat woke me up in the middle of the night twice over the phone, 'Save me!' He demanded to send Soviet troops, and immediately! No! We are not going to fight for them."
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Not blue. If I go with WD, I go with black due to Warranty 5 years, performance and hitachi 7K3000 2TB is 3 years warranty.
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TheTechGeek had 500gb RE3 drives on sale for $50 yesterday... guess I should've posted about it here
Ludicrous gibs!
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I've actually never even tried on-board RAID.
[Unless there was a discreet RAID chip on the board.]
Always used a card even if the chipset supported RAID.
I don't trust the Blue or Green. Seen too many complaints.
Currently use only the Black or RE.
Although their older mid-range [like 160GB and smaller JB and BB] did pretty well by me.
My setup for a while was 40GB 'BB's [mirrored] for the OS and 160GB or 250GB 'SB's [mirrored] for storage and back-ups.
'SB's were the IDE RE series.
Still have a bunch of those around. Some never got used.
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I buy 5 to 20 at a time and it generally works out to $35-$40/drive.Originally posted by dood View PostTheTechGeek had 500gb RE3 drives on sale for $50 yesterday... guess I should've posted about it here
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Those BBs were intolerable once the bearings started to whine... Even one that still functions well otherwise - and most of them do, they don't die often - I would never use just because of the annoying whine.My setup for a while was 40GB 'BB's [mirrored] for the OS and 160GB or 250GB 'SB's [mirrored] for storage and back-ups.
'SB's were the IDE RE series.
I don't remember anything about the "SB" series, but I don't see what the advantage would be since IIRC the BB/JB drives accepted SMART TLER commands just fine."We have offered them (the Arabs) a sensible way for so many years. But no, they wanted to fight. Fine! We gave them technology, the latest, the kind even Vietnam didn't have. They had double superiority in tanks and aircraft, triple in artillery, and in air defense and anti-tank weapons they had absolute supremacy. And what? Once again they were beaten. Once again they scrammed [sic]. Once again they screamed for us to come save them. Sadat woke me up in the middle of the night twice over the phone, 'Save me!' He demanded to send Soviet troops, and immediately! No! We are not going to fight for them."
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