Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EADS 1TB

CharlieCS · Mar 4, 2009

Sad item for 89 dollars shipped from newegg , shell shocker deal

http://www.newegg.com/Special/ShellShocker.aspx

am in the market for one TB drive , but i want black version , it is tempting at that price tho

hinderpits · Mar 4, 2009

wow thats a descent price i just ordered a wd black tb for 122 w/shipping :bang head

hopefully the black is as good as they say it is...

Automata · Mar 4, 2009

hinderpits said:
wow thats a descent price i just ordered a wd black tb for 122 w/shipping
hopefully the black is as good as they say it is...

It is insane. 4 of the 1tb Blacks' are pushing 380+ MB/sec and 7ms access times under my Areca 1220, RAID0 - 200gb slice.

hinderpits · Mar 4, 2009

thideras said:
It is insane. 4 of the 1tb Blacks' are pushing 380+ MB/sec and 7ms access times under my Areca 1220, RAID0 - 200gb slice.

good to here it will be here tomorrow :santa2:

Aynjell · Mar 5, 2009

thideras said:
It is insane. 4 of the 1tb Blacks' are pushing 380+ MB/sec and 7ms access times under my Areca 1220, RAID0 - 200gb slice.

Sounds nice. I assume you have the rest of the drives partitioned for general storage? That's about the stuff I get from my 2 VR300's on fraid.

jason4207 · Mar 5, 2009

Aynjell said:
Sounds nice. I assume you have the rest of the drives partitioned for general storage? That's about the stuff I get from my 2 VR300's on fraid.

I know for a fact you're not getting anything close to 380MB/s on 2 VR300's...

Aynjell · Mar 5, 2009

jason4207 said:
I know for a fact you're not getting anything close to 380MB/s on 2 VR300's...

It's what I get burst speed. *shrug*

I get 200 average, with a 7.0ms access time.

I figured he was referring to the burst speed, like most people do. But I suppose with the array he has setup it's probably he's actually getting that consistent, due to his storage all residing on the innermost sectors.

Automata · Mar 5, 2009

Aynjell said:
It's what I get burst speed. *shrug*

Burst speed is absolutely useless and you can't compare across systems, I never give burst numbers

I get 200 average, with a 7.0ms access time.

I figured he was referring to the burst speed, like most people do. But I suppose with the array he has setup it's probably he's actually getting that consistent, due to his storage all residing on the innermost sectors.

I get lower numbers (access wise) in Vista, but 375mb/sec average, 7.4ms access times. I'm actually maxing out this controller, so they are faster than that.

Badbonji · Mar 5, 2009

What does it mean if burst speed is lower than average? lol?

Automata · Mar 5, 2009

Badbonji said:
What does it mean if burst speed is lower than average? lol?

thideras said:
Burst speed is absolutely useless and you can't compare across systems, I never give burst numbers

Unless it is insanely low, see above.

rainless · Mar 5, 2009

Wonder if that's the same as the drive that's in my external hard drive...

EDIT: Nope... WD10EACS

Wonder what the difference between the EACS and EADS is? Probably wouldn't be able to raid them...

Automata · Mar 5, 2009

rainless said:
Wonder what the difference between the EACS and EADS is? Probably wouldn't be able to raid them...

You can RAID them.

hinderpits · Mar 5, 2009

sweeeeeet
this thing hauls although it took an hour and a half to format.....but that can be expected
i will post performance numbers in a bit

rainless · Mar 5, 2009

thideras said:
You can RAID them.

Hmm... Get this thing and call it a day... or wait and pick up two 640 caviar blacks...

Decisions...

MadMan007 · Mar 6, 2009

rainless said:
Wonder if that's the same as the drive that's in my external hard drive...

EDIT: Nope... WD10EACS

Wonder what the difference between the EACS and EADS is? Probably wouldn't be able to raid them...

This outlines the differences for you: http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/15769

rainless · Mar 6, 2009

MadMan007 said:
This outlines the differences for you: http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/15769

Different power consumption... different platter size... different CACHE...

Will RAID really even work?

Automata · Mar 6, 2009

rainless said:
Different power consumption... different platter size... different CACHE...

Will RAID really even work?

You can RAID any drives if you really want, the RAID controller couldn't care less.

nyker · Mar 6, 2009

I personally don't trust this drive to be main os drive. as a data drive for a nas is ok. need to get a black for my next upgrade but they are so expensive now.

Automata · Mar 6, 2009

nyker said:
I personally don't trust this drive to be main os drive. as a data drive for a nas is ok. need to get a black for my next upgrade but they are so expensive now.

May I be so bold as to ask why? From my perspective, I see no reason to doubt the drive's ability to live and hold data.

If you are referring to the Seagate 7200.11 line, then I completely understand.

Aynjell · Mar 6, 2009

thideras said:
May I be so bold as to ask why? From my perspective, I see no reason to doubt the drive's ability to live and hold data.

If you are referring to the Seagate 7200.11 line, then I completely understand.

I am not one to say I will never buy this or that, but it's going to be al ong time before I trust seagate branded drives over western digitals.

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