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14.01.2015
4/10
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- + Как бы "серверный".
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Купили в организацию год назад, чтобы разместить на нём базу данных... Купились именно на его, якобы, "надёжность". Так вот, спустя примерно 9 месяцев стали появляться единичные "бэды", хотя условия эксплуатации вполне комфортные (отсутствие вибрации, хорошее охлаждение - температура выше +34 гр.Ц. ни разу не поднималась, качественный блок питания с 1,5-ым запасом по мощности), а на днях резко и лавинообразно "посыпался"...
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29.06.2011
10/10
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29 June, 2011Having hovered on the fringes of 3D CAD long enough, I recently purchased a used Dell Precision T5400 workstation (Xeon quad core 3.16 Ghz, 4GB RAM, 1TB Hitachi, Quadro FX570 video card) to get the best performance I could using AutoCad Revit 2011 and Inventor Pro 2011- both very demanding 3D CAD programs. I upgraded the T5400 to 12GB RAM, and from Vista Business 64-bit to Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, and today I'm adding an NVidia geforce GTX 285 1GB that will configured to emulate a Quadro 5800 CAD oriented card- (and thereby saving about $3,000 on the card). Because I'm not very disciplined with backup and always worried about HD failure- though I've only had 2 failures in 18 years, I decided to set up- eventually -a RAID 1 that would have a pair of HD's that continually mirror each other.Having had good luck with Western Digital drives and read many HD reviews, I chose a Western Digital RE4, 500GB. Another contender was the single platter Samsung 500GB which is also very fast. Early on during research, I was planning to buy a pair of WD Caviar Black 1TB, but WD has arranged that only the Enterprise series can be configured for RAID- some sort of error correction is not present in their other series, so an RE4 it was. Instead of having to learn how to set up the RAID, for the time being, I decided to take the 1TB Hitachi out of the T5400, mount it in a USB HD enclosure (Sabrent eSATA to SATA aluminum) and for now this external drive would become the backup drive. The external drive will only run when backing up and I'm hoping that will extend it's life substantially. By the way, the Sabrent aluminum enclosure is brilliant- very nicely made and has a extremely quiet fan which keeps it very cool. The blue lights give it a serious, almost military hardware quality.The Precision T5400 has a wonderfully convenient HD carrier assembly that unclips and swings out and the drives are held in caddies that can be unclipped and draw vertically from the carrier. It's possible to change drives in less than 5 minutes. Having had a disaster while using Paragon Suite 10- during which the 1-year old WD 750BG disk from my XP machine (Dell Dimension 8400) became a door stop, I set the RE4 in the second drive caddy on SATA 1 and cloned the Hitachi (on SATA 0)to the RE4 using Easus ToDo 2.5 which is a free version, and excellent- you can be cloning in minutes. I recommend that anyone contemplating an HD upgrade spend an equal effort in carefully choosing utilities- the software I bought ruined a HD and created many hours of frustration, while the free product sailed through. When cloning the partitions from the Hitachi to the RE4, the transfer ran initially at 3.87GB/min and at the end, at 3.2GB/sec. In all it copied about 120GB in four partitions in about 29 minutes. I used the Easus to copy a backup of C: to another HD partition in a Dell Optiplex 740 (Athlon 64 dual core 2.4Ghz, Hitachi 500GB) and the transfer rate was about 2.4GB/min- still seeming quite fast. The 64MB cache of the RE4 is something that improves read/write rates, and that may be a lot of the difference- it really works. Checking at the end of the cloning session, the RE4 was running at 89F and the Hitachi in the enclosure at 110F. At the moment, the RE4 is at 82F- only 10 degrees above the room. I was surprised that with the RE4 my Windows Experience index for the T5400 disk remained the same at 5.9, as the startup, application speeds, and transfer times seemed very much improved.The RE4 is very quiet- and the T5400 has a heavy case and cover that probably assists this, and it seems to me to have less vibration than any drive I've had. Looking at it physically, it seems more substantially made, and I can see that the base of the platter spindle is large diameter. WD touts this extra rotational stability as a reason they can offer a 5- year warranty- and it must be effective. If you are using CAD, a good video card is essential in combination with fast read/write drive speeds. And, if you're on a budget as I am, consider high end gaming cards that use the same GPU as CAD-oriented cards. There are several NVidia geforce cards that can act as extremely expensive Quadros. Wikipedia has a fantastically useful table of quadro cards with notes on which geforce uses the same GPU. You can use a utility to simply rename the card as the CAD version and using the CAD drivers, save, save, save while having very high CAD performance. That's how the GTX285 can emulate a Quadro 5800 costing 10 times as much (note: the 285 is 1GB and the 5800 4GB). If you use Autodesk products, you can download optimized drivers for their recommended cards. Gaming cards concentrate on fast frame rates- abbreviating shading and rendering while CAD cards shade and render every frame fully. In these applications the combination of fast disk and fast video can transform the 3D CAD use. Newer software is increasingly taking advantage of multiple cores as well- if you have
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07.08.2012
8/10
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Хорошо
I just purchased this WD 500GB Enterprise HDD from Amazon, and had it delivered Amazon Prime. Out of the box, the drive worked excellent and after a full format the drive is serving excellent as a secondary storage drive, running next to my 64GB SSD.Windows 7 64, my motherboard, and my PC had no problems identifying the drive. Like any new HDD install, I had to go into the disk management menu and create a new partition / drive. After that I started transferring my media collection and downloads that I don't run from boot (or on an everyday basis) to the new drive.As a secondary drive this product should be excellent. So far it effortlessly streams my 1080p media and provides me fast and accessible storage for my extensive photo and music collection. Having 64MB in cache, as I understand it, allows the HDD controller to grab information before it's needed based on past actions. Assume you're streaming a high-bitrate video - the extra cache allows the HDD controller to grab and then store or "cache" the information that will be needed before it's needed by the video program you are running. I am sure this explanation is rather simple, and certainly the amount of cache is probably overkill for what I do - watching media and running typical Win7 programs - but it's nice to have.Certainly the strongest benefit of owning this drive is its "Enterprise" classification. What this means is that you have business-grade or enterprise-class quality and a five year warranty. While others say that this drive is not for standalone, single-drive (non-RAID) configuration, I don't see anything anywhere that indicates it cannot be used for this or does not perform perfectly as a standard workstation drive in a single-drive-access configuration.It's as easy as plug-and-play should be to get this drive going - and the comfort of a five year warranty is a big plus. The 7200 rpm access speeds are perfectly adequate for my needs, and the SATA 3GB/s standard is probably much faster than the actual read/write speeds you'll get with the drive. What I'm saying is that the drive exceeds the standard by its SATA interface, but the actual drive data exchange between the PC and the drive will probably never reach that 3GB/s in normal everyday use. In other words, over-engineering is not overkill but a strong benefit!I anticipate minimal problems with this drive - I have had much success with the WD Green series of 5400 rpm drives in the past. Also all I get from my Lian-Li PC-A04 case is a quiet hum when it's running - pretty quiet considering it is a magnetic drive.In short I see no negatives other than the price premium - which really is offset by the following benefits:1) Five year warranty by directly registering the product with WD.2) SATA 3GB/s interface3) 7200 RPM4) WD reputation for quality5) Enterprise-quality build6) 64MB in cache7) immediate visibility and seamless install in Windows environment
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24.02.2013
10/10
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I was running out of space on my RAID 10 drive which was 4x640gb WD Caviar Blacks so chose these as replacement. They are running on a 3Ware 9640SE raid card fine. In my case, they run about 91 degrees F, your results will vary obviously depending on your case set up. These are a tad noisier than the previous drives, but not enough to be a concern, hard to hear them over the case fans which are not super quiet on my system.All the drives ran when I received them, no DOAs but 1 did fail the WD drive tool test. I contacted Amazon and was cross shipped a replacement at no cost, received in 2 days. This is one very good reason to buy drives from Amazon vs other online computer hardware companies which will charge shipping for replacements. I highly recommend using the WD drives tool on any WD disk you buy prior to setting up on your system. Use the short and long test. My drive passed the short test but failed the long test.If you are upsizing an array that will auto rebuild, just replace 1 at a time letting it rebuild before replacing the next drive. This worked great for the RAID 5 drive on the MB ICH10R. Using the Intel Raid Management tool (free download) I resized without losing any data after all 4 drives were in place. The RAID10 on the 3Ware card would not upsize using 3DM2 tool so I contacted LSI who wrote a script to upsize the array. Ran the script as directed but it only upsized half the array, so it became corrupt and I lost the array. Fortunately I had just made a System Image on a single disc (2TB WD Red) and was able to quickly restore the image using the Windows 7 disk. If you have a RAID card, there's a pretty good chance the Win7 installation will not have the RAID drivers included, so make sure you have those available on a USB or floppy before getting into a position that might require you to restore an image after losing an array.
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07.03.2013
10/10
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This purchase has been great and years in the making, I only got started in computers in 2007 and never owned one myself that is until the aforementioned year 2007. Sadly I fount out that kids are learning computers and mild programing in grade school 4or 5 years of age. What can tell ya,I was a late bloomer or that I was a working poor person. Now i am building my own computer it is just great it does take for me proper research and most important staying focused. This hard drive is great exactly what i wanted. Sadly T-Pol did not come with it, it is an ENTERPRIZE hard drive HA HA. I will have to visit her watching the DVD's Enterprize.
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10.12.2012
10/10
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I bought a few of the 1 TB models to use in a RAID in a NAS and have been quite happy with the performance.The "Enterprise" line of WD HDD have time-limited error recovery (TLER), which is essential in a RAID. A "regular" HD may be dropped from an array if it takes too long to recover an error; I've had this happen in the past. These TLER drives limit the amount of time spent in this process. Of note, this behavior would not be desired in a standalone setup, so these drives are specifically for RAID.I use these drives in a NAS connected to ~6 computers with frequent read/writes and the 64MB cache is definitely obvious. I've used WD for years, and the only one I've had fail was one of the Green models. The customer service has been great in the past, so I highly welcome the 5-year warranty.
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25.01.2013
10/10
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I was looking for a replacement drive for my aged D-Link DNS-323 NAS. My old 750 GB Seagate Barracuda died. I settled on this drive because of the enterprise reliability, 5 year warranty, prices, and the fact it was very difficult to find good sata2 drives. The DNS-323 apparently doesn't support sata3 which are more abundant and cheaper. The DNS-323 would not sync the data from the other 750 GB disk in a RAID-1 configuration so I ended up having to reformat both drives which gave me 750GB of RAID1 and another volume of 250GB JBOD. I restored the data from another DNS-323 and I'm back up and running. So far so good...
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27.02.2013
10/10
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I have had much bad luck with new retail hard drives. All brands seem to come with defective sectors right out of the box. This WD enterprise unit seems to have much higher quality control as the one that worked from an order of two passed chkdsk with no bad sectors. Unfortunately, the other one just got hot and did not work at all. However, Amazon was very quick with supplying me with a replacement which works fine. I intend to order additional units for other new builds in my pipeline.
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06.01.2013
10/10
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I have a ReadyNAS NV+ file server that I purchased in 2007. After five years in service I decided to replace the hard drives as a preventative against failure.It's always a risk. Every drive you look at will have a number of 1-star reviews based on drive failures.I decided that the safest approach was to purchase enterprise class drives with 5 year warranties, under the assumption that they are probably better built than consumer class drives.In this case, the 1TB drives are going for $99 so there is really no upcharge for the enterprise class drive.They arrived nicely packed, suspended in a box with end-caps. So far they are working well.
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18.11.2012
10/10
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Using these with a 3ware 9550SX-12 RAID card, and all 4 are working fine and have been for about a month. The machine is running OpenFiler, and these are acting as storage. No problems here.Note: I learned the hard way that you simply can NOT use WD15EARS drives in RAID or any other non TLER drive from WD anymore. They have gotten wise to us using non enterprise drives and switching TLER through firmware and saving money. Well, not anymore folks... I know that there are reasons behind WD doing this such as the fact that it may be more risky for someone to use a regular hard drive and switch TLER and use it in production and have problems later on.. who knows? Maybe WD is trying to save us from ourselves, haha. I'm sure the increase in enterprise drive sales also doesn't hurt their feelings.No complaints.
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27.12.2011
8/10
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Хорошо
I have 34 of these WD RE4 2TB drives in production at work, in Promise Vtrak J610 shelves connected via LSI SAS cards, and have another 26 about to go into production in new systems I'm building using SuperMicro cases and motherboards and LSI cards. In big RAID systems you must use hard drives manufactured to support RAID operation, particularly in regard to error recovery timing. Desktop hard drives take a long time to perform error recovery - which causes problems in RAID systems leading to data corruption and premature flagging of a drive as bad. These WD RE4 drives use a feature called "Time Limited Error Recovery" to prevent a drive in error recovery from being dropped by the array. Supposedly enterprise drives are built more vibration tolerant to handle the stresses of being operated in a drive shelf.In any case, over the past year one of the Vtrak shelves loaded with 16 RE4 drives behaved flawlessly and the other one lost 4 drives in a single episode over a 48 hour period about 6 months into deployment. My experience is, thus, mixed. However the price per spindle is dramatically better than using branded drives from HP, Dell, or the other major storage vendors. My advice is to use RAID 6 and designate 2 hot spares per shelf.Other than this single episode with 4 drives dying in short temporal proximity, these drives have been fine. Their performance is good. In the large array they provide large storage at a decent price with acceptable performance. Prices have risen dramatically because WD's Thailand operation was damaged by the Fall 2011 flooding in Thailand. Prices will probably go up further until production levels are restored sometime in mid 2012 or so.UPDATE - after the subsequent review warned about getting a pulled drive I looked at my last one (purchased 12/11/11). It is a mint sealed WD2003FYYS-02WB0 RE4 drive. My recent purchase was legit.
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04.03.2013
10/10
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Faster than any hard drive I have owned before-I use it for gaming (GTA 4, BF3, SC2, Skyrim, Minesweeper etc)I use it for media- data transfers are a blast- it keeps up pretty good with my SSD that I've got set up for booting.The 1 Terabyte version of the hard drive has been reliable up to now, and it's been about a year- I'm quite pleased with it- felt like leaving mention of it here. Thx, ciao
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18.03.2013
10/10
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Ordered two of these drives to replace a pair of 150GB Hitachi drives in a RAID 1 configuration. Installation was flawless and the operation is smooth, fast, cool and quiet. This is as good as it gets from a 7200RPM server class drive. If you want faster prepare to spend a lot more money and go with a 10K or better RPM drive.
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19.08.2012
6/10
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Плохо
I bought this based on the need to increase speed of data. After reading the reviews that described this as "speedy" and "fast" I went ahead and made the purchase.First, it really isn't any faster than the Western Digital hard drive with the same capacity (2 years old) that I have now. Second, I used the Western Digital version of Acronis to clone the system (Windows 7 Pro) and it did not perform as well as when I used it a couple of years ago with Windows XP when I did a new build. It missed some files and the cloned system was very unstable. I went to a couple of forums and some people couldn't get Acronis to work with Windows 7 at all. In the end I reinstalled my old hard drive and will keep this one for a spare.I suppose that as far as the speediness that is mostly my fault - I know better and should of checked the specs closer. The one saving grace about this is I was going to buy the full version of Acronis, but after this experience I'm going to wait until they get the bugs worked out for Windows 7.
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05.04.2013
10/10
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Fast and reliable (also reasonably prices). Have been using these drives as removable backup with an external dock and rotating them with drives that I keep at work and in my safe. Keep the foam shipping containers for transport.
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04.01.2013
10/10
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An awesome drive - I think all my drives going forward will be this one...The results of my 600+ meg robocopy. The other results were equally impressive: Total Copied Skipped Mismatch FAILED Extras Dirs : 147 146 1 0 0 0Files : 3507 3507 0 0 0 0Bytes :7344455.5 m7344455.5 m 0 0 0 0Times : 0:00.000 1:39:18 0:00.000 -1:-39:-18I'm planning on putting this drive in a RAID, and the NCQ support is critical. I'm not happy about WD's NCQ support, but am significantly less happy about Seagate's recent reliability.
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06.04.2013
10/10
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WD drives are quality, RE4 series have good specs and warranty. Fast, useful for enteprise/businesses, great for general user.Only used this model a short time, but quiet, cool running. Expect a long lifetime.
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18.12.2012
10/10
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I bought this drive to backup data from an old XP system, and it fully meets expectations. Using XP system tools, wrote a disk signature and quick formatted about half of it for starters. Sourced from 100 Gbyte 10000rpm IBM/Hitachi SCSI U320 drive, was able to transfer ~128 Mbits/sec average; 34 Gbyte transfer in 33 minutes.Transfer from a WDC 320 Mb, 7200rpm, 16Mb cache, IDE connected (in the same system with the above SCSI): ~27Mbits/sec, 85 Gbytes transferred in ~6.5 hours. YMMVI particularly liked the five year warranty, low power consumption, and it runs cool and quiet.
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27.09.2012
2/10
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Ужасно
I installed the HDD, initialized it under Win 7/64bit and ran Western Digital's Data LifeGuard (from their website as a free download). Drive passed SMART test and short test. I then ran the extended test twice. Both times, the test aborted due to an excessive number of bad sectors. I returned drive and asked amazon to send a replacement.The replacement drive was sent with NO protective packaging and their shipping method did NOT meet Western Digital's requirements for shipping hard drives. I posted picture of how drive was shipped. The drive is on its way back. A third drive has been ordered.I'll update review when I receive and test third drive.EDIT 27Nov2012: The third drive passed all WD LifeGuard tests, was installed into the new desktop, and has been operating perfectly. This third drive has a "5 star rating".
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31.03.2013
10/10
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Works really well love it. Will recommend to family and friends. Fast speeds and great size. Loads and shutsdown computer at much faster speeds than my IDE surpassed my expectations.
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04.02.2013
10/10
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I've had 3 1TB drives die on me over 4 years time, so I decided to look into getting an Enterprise drive in the hopes that the motor and heads would be a bit more robust. So far, so good. The drives have performed well running CS6 for video editing and don't seem to be running into any of the previous issues. Fingers crossed!
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27.01.2013
10/10
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This hard drive slid right in to one of the 4 hard drive bays in my Mac Pro. Total installation time was about 30 seconds.There are no wires inside a Mac Pro for hard drives so installing this unit is like putting bread in a toaster. No tools needed!The Mac OS recognize the drive automatically and formatted it in about 30 seconds.Runs great. No issues.
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13.02.2013
10/10
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This Drive works very well and I've had no problems with it after several weeks of use.I think the "Enterpise" designation refers to its suitability for "server-use",, but it works fine in my home desk-topcomputer running Windows 7-64 bit and SATA-2 . It' also super quiet !!
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09.01.2013
10/10
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Best in the biz. You want enterprise grade reliability and performance for a SATA interface? These are you boys. I bought 8 at once, all 8 worked out of the box (no DOA), and work fast at that. If you don't need the performance, however, the WD RED series seems a decent alternative at a much lower price point, but I needed the 5 year warranty and top speed and these delivered!
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