WD500gb in this week only

ringo747 · 30 Jan 2007 at 17:32

dan_aka_jack said:
Hi guys,

My 500GB WD5000AKS drives arrived today. Just to let you know that none of them have 4-pin Molex power connectors so you have to use SATA power connectors with these puppies.

Jack

wish i had saw your post sooner. Got mine today and have to go back and order a sata power adapter now. Probably cost about £5 to ship to NI!

phill9800 · 30 Jan 2007 at 17:38

Got two on order and another 2 250Gb Hitchi's (or however you spell it) as well for some more drives..

Beginning to think I've more hard drive space than I know what to do with!! :lol:

tsinc80697 · 30 Jan 2007 at 19:13

Im after a 500Gb external drive, was looking at the MyBook ones, but would this drive put inside something like an icyBox perform better?

Slackworth · 30 Jan 2007 at 23:58

They use the same/similar drives in MyBook drives anyway.

Obviously you get a bit more support if things go wrong but an Icy Box will work fine.

mosfet · 31 Jan 2007 at 00:32

tsinc80697 said:
Im after a 500Gb external drive, was looking at the MyBook ones, but would this drive put inside something like an icyBox perform better?

As Slackworth said above, the drives in the MyBooks are the same model as the retail drive on OCUK. Performance will depend on the interface used - Firewire 800 will give you the best (only on the MyBook Pro), USB 2.0 the slowest (expect ~20MBps read/write) and Firewire 400 marginally better than USB.

tsinc80697 · 31 Jan 2007 at 03:12

an icy box would work out cheaper, but are they as reliable with 500GB drives, read a few stories of them and drives within packing in ?
might be wrong place to ask but can i daisy chain icy box's like i could with mybooks or is it only possible with the expensive icy box's ?

ringo747 · 31 Jan 2007 at 15:51

anyone know where i could pick up some jumpers to fit this drive? Mine didn't come with any.

gumbald · 31 Jan 2007 at 16:09

Got my drive plugged into my IcyBox now, just cloning my other drive before I swap them round. Seems nice and quiet so far, I'll report back when I get it into my computer

ringo747 · 31 Jan 2007 at 16:18

gumbald said:
Got my drive plugged into my IcyBox now, just cloning my other drive before I swap them round. Seems nice and quiet so far, I'll report back when I get it into my computer

did yours come with jumpers?

phill9800 · 31 Jan 2007 at 17:05

My drives has just arrived, I will let everyone know about the jumpers

Kaiju · 31 Jan 2007 at 17:17

I got one from a competitor a week before the OCUK sale and it's "Out of Region" á la Canada. No warranty for me, sigh.

Teach me not to wander when buying PC components.

Kaiju · 31 Jan 2007 at 17:22

davetherave2 said:
it comes with a jumper pin block but no jumpers on the pin's.

What's the difference?

phill9800 · 31 Jan 2007 at 19:02

no jumpers but I managed this when I raided them :

Also they arent showing up in device manager but I have two unknown devices?? Thats not good and cant seem to install the drivers for them either..

Can anyone help??

ringo747 · 31 Jan 2007 at 19:22

jonnyc747 said:
anyone know where i could pick up some jumpers to fit this drive? Mine didn't come with any.

davetherave2 · 31 Jan 2007 at 19:48

phill9800 said:
no jumpers but I managed this when I raided them :

Also they arent showing up in device manager but I have two unknown devices?? Thats not good and cant seem to install the drivers for them either..

Can anyone help??

which mobo have you installed this onto? Also which controller have you installed it onto?

phill9800 · 31 Jan 2007 at 20:05

Abit AW9D-Max, used the raid chip and standard chip thats onboard..

In normal drive mode, still not being recognised

khemist · 31 Jan 2007 at 20:43

Can't get this drive to be seen in windows but can in bios on ds3...can now see it in device manager but not in my computer.

rpstewart · 31 Jan 2007 at 21:11

You'll need to create and format at least one partition on the drive before it will show in My Computer. Go to Disk Management - right click on My Computer and pick Manage, then pick Disk Management from the left hand pane and the snap in will open in the right. Your new drive will appear as a chunk of unallocated space, right click in this and pick New Partition, check the presented defaults are OK, tick the Quick Format box and hit OK. Once the format is complete (30s or so for a quick one) the drive will be assigned a new letter and will appear in My Computer.

phill9800 · 31 Jan 2007 at 21:15

I have two installs of my OS on separate drives. My OS install on my Samsung drive, hasnt got all the drivers installed, keeps complaining of two unknown devices (the hard drives have been installed) but there's two others that still arent.

I've installed the SATA and Raid bits from Abit's motherboard CD and still nothing.

I loaded the OS up on my Raptor drive and its worked fine :confused:

Also my burst speeds have gone up a fair amount (60mb/sec plus) but I've only moved the connectors to the SATA 3 and 4 connections. They where in SATA 5 and 6.

Is there something I'm missing here or is there something wrong??

khemist · 31 Jan 2007 at 21:23

Thanks rpstewart but the new partition option is greyed out.