Search results matching tag 'WD'

RE: It's Official: WD Acquires Hitachi Global Storage

mhenriday — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:58:17 GMT

«My Wallet just screamed!» Isn't that, realneil, precisely what John Coyne meant by «customer delight» ? Oligopolies are soooo good (i e, delightful) for users !...

Henri

Re: WD Launches Largest Ever 3TB Drive, HH Tested

Abeiis — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 23:08:17 GMT

Great reporting - I wonder if the same benchmark outcome holds true when the drive is in a RAID-5 configuration. To me, this drive is meant to be in a RAID5 Array; it will save energy and will render better performance than when used in a standalone configuration... what do you think?

I also would like to know (I may have missed it) where it is sold for $239?

My Book World Edition

ombre — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:27:24 GMT

Only one word can described My Book World Edition "TERRIBLE " very poor menu slow log in, tons of crap and totally unusable software WD Anywhere Access (MioNet), ( hangs all pc's I installed it) i can only log in on accounts created from the same PC and Only account I can log in from all my home PC's (7 in total) are PUBLIC folder, Security Settings just doesn't update properly . its doesn't matter how many folders I create and rights I assign to them its just impossible to log in from another PC even new one (my wife's new Sony P series). Also No simple HTTP, FTP, file download. Device hangs when using Acronis backup to restore large files strait from DOS (have to copy all files to PC first and then use them to restore) even much cheaper USB enclosure do better job than this very good looking NAS. And this is my second Devise first one breaks 3 months after I bout it. IF I HAVE TO CHOOSE AGAIN I WILL NEVER BUY THIS CRAP (My Book World Edition) old people say everyone have to pay for school I pay my fees, i got now $ 90 Planet NAS-7201 nothing fancy but work like dream and is cheap.

Re: RE: Western Digital 2TB Caviar Green Drive Preview

Dave_HH — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:11:34 GMT

[quote user="Char"]

Dang, excuse me. I have never been on this site before had no clue how polite you could be. Like I really would know how reliable you could be as I personally do not know you. Let me try to rephrase the questions.

Do you know of any site out there that would provide me with some additional reading information on the WD 2 TB?

Thanks again for your advanced kindness.
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No sweat at all, Char! Sorry if I took you wrong there. We're not too polite or stuffy around here actually.

We'll be offering a full performance evaluation here at HH, on the full production release version of the drive. The unit we tested here had only engineering release firmware and was not final production product. More to come in the days ahead when WD releases the final drive to us and we get it on the bench for some serious testing!

WD 2TB Caviar Green Monster Drive Preview

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:55:10 GMT

Late last week Western Digital briefed us on their forthcoming release of a new addition to their Caviar Green family of hard drives. No we're not talking some sort of exotic sushi or cracker-bound fish egg here either but rather a new, rather humongous and environmentally more friendly hard drive from WD, that can be considered an "industry first". Today marks the day that standard rotational media breaks the 2TB barrier. Let's spell that out a bit more clearly again here; T-W-O full Terabytes of SATA-based storage on a single, standard 3.5" hard drive. Those of you on the consumer side of the market, hording gigs of music, movies, pictures and other media just got a bunch more breathing room to play with. And those of you in the enterprise space now have a new option to consider with respect to bulk, low-cost, power-efficient storage. Perhaps that rack just got a little smaller or the need to cool it a little less?

Today Western Digital is announcing their WD20WEADS drive, otherwise known as the WD Caviar Green 2.0TB. With 32MB of onboard cache and special power management algorithms that make use of that cache to balance spindle speed and transfer rates, the WD Caviar Green 2TB claims a top rung spot on the density-per-square-inch and power-efficiency ladder.

We've had an engineering sample here in house for a few days and have done some preliminary testing on it. We'll be offering a full performance evaluation with the final revision of this new drive in the coming weeks but we have a sneak peek for you here. Let's start with the specifications and then we'll take a closer look at the vital signs.

Specs:

Capacity: 2TB (400Gb/sq.in. areal density)

32MB cache buffer

Variable spindle speed

3.5-inch form-factor

500GB/platter, 4-platter design

3Gb/sec SATA with NCQ

SATA power connector only

PMR head technology

RoHS compliant

Formatted capacity - Windows Vista 32-bit, NTFS partition

SANDRA and HD Tach Preliminary Performance - Engineering Sample, Firmware Not Final

A quick glance at the numbers here show this new big-boy Caviar Green drive from WD offering more than competitive performance versus the likes of Samsung's Spinpoint F1 and Seagate's Barracuda 7200.11 -- both 7200RPM-based products. HD Tach shows an average read speed of 90MB/s and average writes at 80MB/s. We'll be digging into performance metrics with other tools like IOMeter in the days ahead but this early view certainly looks good for a disk with this sort of capacity. We'll be looking at power as well but WD claims this drive drops in somewhere around 7 Watts under read/write load and 5 Watts at idle. With the ever-increasing demand for bulk storage, this new WD drive offers a smaller carbon footprint as well, with a full 2TB available in a single 3.5" drive.

You can catch the official press release from WD, here. Stay tuned for the full HH monty with WD's new big-bad Caviar, coming soon.

Though Vista likes to round the numbers down to 1.81TB, as you can see, there are over 2 trillion bytes of available capacity on this new, freshly formatted hard drive, with 147MB used just for the file system alone. Below are some quick and dirty performance numbers with HD Tach and SANDRA. We should underscore that we're testing a pre-release engineering sample here, so performance figures could scale higher as firmware revision are made to the product.