Western digital re3 driver

The problem turned out to be these WD drives recoil and shake more during seeks than previous, lower capacity models. One drive was not mounted tightly, making a loud clunk whenever the heads moved.

Using a set of silicon isolation grommets stopped the banging, and these drives are nicely quiet. Quite and fast. I am really happy with the quality. Also have the GB version in my iMac 20". Cannot even hear it running Overall Review: As others have complained the packing was horrible. Others do such a better job with the air pillow packing. I even paid for Fedex so I would have a better chance of getting the drives in one piece.

Newegg is so great otherwise, I just do not understand the lack of shipping quality. Blows my mind Pros: Very high transfer rates as other reviewers have already indicated with good data.

Lots of Cache. You know you are getting a reliable drive with the RE series from WD. I don't mind paying more money for a drive I can really feel confident in, after all you can make a pretty spendy set of hardware seem pretty useless with a failing drive. What more can you ask for from a 1TB drive then speed and reliability? Cons: None, I have installed many of these drives and they have each performed as well as the last. Overall Review: I have built countless PC's over the years and I have seen my fair share of bad hard drives.

I find it's sometimes hard to find a drive that you are really confident in. Pros: Simply outstanding drive. Works with Areca ix with no issues. Western Digital leads the pack in quality lately. Cons: Newegg again shipped the drive with minimal protection. I'm not going to punish Western Digital for this, but Newegg needs to get a better hard drive shipping policy and quit going on the cheap.

All arrived and worked out of the box flawless. Not one bad block in all 18TB! Running great! ZERO bad blocks in all 4 drives. Very satisfied, once I received 4 working drives. Can this finally be laid to rest? Dissonance 13 years ago WD has declined to reveal the exact spindle speed of its GreenPower drives, saying only that it falls between 5, and 7,RPM. Please fix those spec charts! Dissonance 13 years ago Peak power draw during spin-up is just under 25W.

Get to it! Dissonance 13 years ago As soon as we can get our hands on one. We should have something in the next few weeks. Spotpuff 13 years ago Weird, a review of an RE drive in non-raid…. Follow Us Today! Contact Privacy Guest Post About. Pin It on Pinterest. Western Digital. RE3 1TB. Price MSRP. Maximum external transfer rate. Sustained data rate. Average read seek time.

Spindle speed. Available capacities. Cache size. Platter size. Idle power consumption. Idle acoustics. Seek acoustics. Warranty length. Five years. Max external transfer rate. Barracuda Barracuda ES. Caviar Black. Caviar GP. Caviar SE16 GB. Deskstar 7K SpinPoint F1. VelociRaptor VR Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3. System bus. Asus P5WD2 Premium. Bios revision. North bridge. Retailers, Resellers and Distributors are excluded from this promotion.

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