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Follow up from this thread where my shiny new WD5000AAKS drive was seen as only 128Gb/137Gb.
It got sent back for RMA and was replaced. Received the new drive and installed straight away seen as 500Gb so definately the first drive was fubar
I noticed that the Random Access was slow ~20ms where it should have been ideally ~13ms. I had a search around and found you could adjust the AAM on the drive which had me thinking that it might be set to quiet/slow. Low and behold it was, changed it to loud/fast and benchmarked. The Random Access is now 13.2ms and the Sequential Read Speed is much nicer without any drops in speed.
Just basically a heads up for anyone with a WD5000AAKS to check they've got it set to the higher setting to get quicker speeds
Doesn't appear to be any louder so a win win situation really!
BeatMaster
It got sent back for RMA and was replaced. Received the new drive and installed straight away seen as 500Gb so definately the first drive was fubar
I noticed that the Random Access was slow ~20ms where it should have been ideally ~13ms. I had a search around and found you could adjust the AAM on the drive which had me thinking that it might be set to quiet/slow. Low and behold it was, changed it to loud/fast and benchmarked. The Random Access is now 13.2ms and the Sequential Read Speed is much nicer without any drops in speed.
Just basically a heads up for anyone with a WD5000AAKS to check they've got it set to the higher setting to get quicker speeds
Doesn't appear to be any louder so a win win situation really!BeatMaster