Hi there. I'm awfully deceived with my brand new HHD Western Digital Caviar Green, model WD15EARS-00Z5B1, 1,5 Tb, (supposed to be) SATA III, 6Gb/s, 64 Mb cache. This stuff is a real turtle, it only transfer or copy the files at 25 - 30 Mb/s. I'm really sleeping whenever I must move some 50 - 100 Gb folders from one partition to other. Takes 30-40 minutes to move the files. It's set like IDE into my mobo's updated bios, an ASUS M5A99x EVO (AM3+ series).
I was looking in the net and see no good hope, for instance here: http://community.wdc.com/t5/Desktop/WDC-WD15EARS-00Z5B1-awful-performance/m-p/5242
The driver (Windows 7 x64 dixit) is 2006!!! and there is no available firmware. What a mess, WD. How can you offer this drive as a new SATA III-6Mb/s if it's worst than the old oness?
My system is fine and brand new, mounted it last week:
1. Mothreboard: ASUS M5A99X EVO with updated bios
2. AMD Phenom x4 975 OCed 3943 MHz with a Zalman CNPS9700 LED cooler.
3. 16 Gb DDR3 1666 Corsair Vengeance low profile, working at 1460MHz
4. Gigabyte Radeon HD 6950OC, 1 Gb DDR5 graphic card
5. WD Caviar 1,5 Tb, 6GB/s, 64 Mb cache hard drive
6. LG Bluray/DVD/CD burner
7. Thermaltake Thoughpower XT 775W PSU
8. Samsung Syncmaster LCD 23", 1920 x 1080 LCD monitor.
Here you have a capture of HD Tune Pro tests.
I'm waiting for your comments and thank you.
I'm very disappointed about this WD.
Best regards,
Florin
I was looking in the net and see no good hope, for instance here: http://community.wdc.com/t5/Desktop/WDC-WD15EARS-00Z5B1-awful-performance/m-p/5242
The driver (Windows 7 x64 dixit) is 2006!!! and there is no available firmware. What a mess, WD. How can you offer this drive as a new SATA III-6Mb/s if it's worst than the old oness?
My system is fine and brand new, mounted it last week:
1. Mothreboard: ASUS M5A99X EVO with updated bios
2. AMD Phenom x4 975 OCed 3943 MHz with a Zalman CNPS9700 LED cooler.
3. 16 Gb DDR3 1666 Corsair Vengeance low profile, working at 1460MHz
4. Gigabyte Radeon HD 6950OC, 1 Gb DDR5 graphic card
5. WD Caviar 1,5 Tb, 6GB/s, 64 Mb cache hard drive
6. LG Bluray/DVD/CD burner
7. Thermaltake Thoughpower XT 775W PSU
8. Samsung Syncmaster LCD 23", 1920 x 1080 LCD monitor.
Here you have a capture of HD Tune Pro tests.
I'm waiting for your comments and thank you.
I'm very disappointed about this WD.
Best regards,
Florin