At 09:39 PM 11/15/2005, Chris Reeves typed:
I just had a WD74G Raptor die on me :( Actually, to be honest, I wasn't as
super impressed with them as I thought I would be.
Ok guys, I was just kidding with my post about having to use Raptors
in all my systems.
I switched over and finally switched over to 4*400 WD RE2 drives. Good
performance, right price. While these drives are listed as "RAID Edition"
(thus RE2) the price is affordable, they are quiet and very fast. The
moment I played with one of them I knew it was basically the best drive I
had worked with in a while.
Must be nice to have a grand to drop on drives but this hick from
Ohio can't afford anything like that right now.
And nothing was really "wrong" with my WD74G dying; the thing took a hell of
a beating in the way of dealing with the constant work I was putting it
under.. Besides which, WD is advance replacing it so *shrug*
I suppose they won't take debit cards either ?
Honestly, though, the RE2 400G drive -feels- faster. Yes, I know it
probably isn't faster, but it does -feel- faster.
I'll have to slum it with my Raptors for a while but am glad to know
that WD has finally come out with some larger drives that fit nicely
in a NAS setup. Where would one get these incredible drives at
anyway? I certainly don't see them listed at NewEgg or Mwave.
TIA
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Wayne D. Johnson
Ashland, OH, USA 44805
<http://www.wavijo.com>
