Western Digital WD5000AAKS

Jakus · 28 Jun 2007 at 18:20

Anyone had problems (read/write errors) with Western Digital WD5000AAKS on older Sata 1 raid controllers ?

Goater666 · 3 Jul 2007 at 11:16

I've just bought two and suspect im having problems. Going to look into it tonight.

Will get back to you.

Jakus · 3 Jul 2007 at 11:46

No, Don't worry about these drives they are rock solid, Long story to be told one day !

You may need to jumper them to sata 1 if Your controller is not sata 2

Greenlizard0 · 3 Jul 2007 at 14:57

Goater666 said:
I've just bought two and suspect im having problems. Going to look into it tonight.

Will get back to you.

Did you have any problems. I'm thinking of getting two of these bad boys and sticking them together for a RAID 1 setup.

joshlane · 3 Jul 2007 at 15:17

hi,

ive just plugged mine in and windows found it fine and installed the drivers for it however windows can't see it............
i have a sata drive installed already
any ideas?

cheers,

rpstewart · 3 Jul 2007 at 15:37

You'll need to go into Disk Management (right click My Computer and pick Manage, DM is in the lefthand tree) then create and format a partition on the drive before it will be accessible to the OS.

Jakus · 3 Jul 2007 at 16:05

Or something like partition Magic is much better if You ever need to use it elsewhere

Jakus · 3 Jul 2007 at 16:07

greenlizard0 said:
Did you have any problems. I'm thinking of getting two of these bad boys and sticking them together for a RAID 1 setup.

Drives are excellent and very quiet, but can run hot without cooling

rpstewart · 3 Jul 2007 at 16:08

JAKUS said:
Or something like partition Magic is much better if You ever need to use it elsewhere

Huh? Why would you spend £40 on a piece of software to do something Windows provides for free?

Jakus · 3 Jul 2007 at 16:09

forgot 32k block size seems fastest

Sorry I'm talking Raid 0 Striping for performance

Jakus · 3 Jul 2007 at 16:22

rpstewart said:
Huh? Why would you spend £40 on a piece of software to do something Windows provides for free?

If You ask that question You obviously have not been around harddrives as much as You think !, and I'm not being funny

Often windows will bleat about correctly partitioned and formated drives until it can format partitions itself, partitions created by windows often fail integrity checks with proper HD tools, which is not good if You ever need to recover data etc..

joshlane · 5 Jul 2007 at 20:18

now i'm up and running, quiet and fast drive dead pleased with it. although in my crappy tsunami dream case it has a deeper sound when accessing compared to my 80gb sata drive.

bloody resonance