My review of Western Digital 320GB RE3 and 2 in raid0 :)

I ordered these from another place. They sent me 2 x 160gb Deskstars in packaging for RE2s :(

PriceQtyLine TotalWestern Digital RE3 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD3202ABYS)£43.992£87.98
From you guys instead!
 
bradders2000 said:
So if people are saying the 250GB drive uses *part* of a 320GB platter, do you think that means the 500GB drive will use 2 x *part* of a 320GB platter?
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I very much doubt it - probably be more likely 2 * 250Gb platters or at best 2 * 320Gb where one is full used and the other partially (though thats wasting a lot of space and probably be a costly option)

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
Yeah but then you have to ask yourself why aren't they using a 250GB platter for the 250 drive? Ok so by using the 320GB platter it makes the drive seem faster, but why would they only want that to be the case with the 250GB drives?

It might actually be cheaper for them to just use the one size (320GB) throughout the range!

Here's hoping anyway ;)
 
I would imagine that the 250/500Gb drives are using 320Gb platters that have bad sectors on the inner tracks from manufacturing. Theres no point wasting these if the rest of the disc is good.

Intel used to do the same thing with the Celerons. They took P4's that had onboard cache that was faulty and then reduced the cache down to the lower limit, excluding the faulty part and sold them on as Celerons. It's one of the reasons they can sell them for less.
 
9zap said:
i have bought 2x250gb re3 burst is only 345 mb/s how come you peeps are getting such high bursts? im on vista 64 bit read is ok at 190mbs
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If you're using a Intel RAID motherboard you need to install the 8.5 Matrix RAID drivers and then open the matrix storage manager. Right click on the array and enable 'write backed caching' or something along those lines

By default it's off as a precaution against data loss in the event of power failure. But when you turn it on it improves burst performance dramatically.
 
Have gone and ordered 2 x 250gb re3's cheers for the info.

They look like good drives.

They will be going into my gaming machine which i run a raid 0 setup in. The 2 x 320's aak's will be going into my home server lol.

Probably wont see much of an increase, but needed to get some bigger drives for the whs and hte 320's were wasted in my gaming rig.
 
Stonedofmoo said:
If you're using a Intel RAID motherboard you need to install the 8.5 Matrix RAID drivers and then open the matrix storage manager. Right click on the array and enable 'write backed caching' or something along those lines

By default it's off as a precaution against data loss in the event of power failure. But when you turn it on it improves burst performance dramatically.
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Thanks mate nice one just need to update my storage manager currently on 7.8 does that also include the raid drivers as well? or do i need to get those as well, just tried it and its 0ver 2,000 now !
 
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