Re: Western Digtial WD1600YS, good drives?

Jesco Lincke <ichwill@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rod Speed schrieb:
Frodo <No_spam_I@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've been looking at getting two Western Digital WD1600YS drives
for a RAID 0. The WD1600YS is 160GB, 16MBs cache, 5 year warranty
and .2ms faster access time then other 7200RPM WD drives.
It's about $131 for the two drives, mail order from Newegg.
Which is $10 cheaper then a new WD 74GB Raptor, which is what I was
first looking at for a new boot drive.
Anyone have a experience with the WD1600YS drives?

I wouldnt touch a drive where the manufacturer
has to have a special version for RAID.


If you check the details you'll find that they don't NEED a special
version for RAID capability, but have merely optimized this drive for RAID use ("RAID-specific
time limited error recovery ").

Wrong, the non raid versions dont work properly in raid configs.

Whether this is a reason to avoid this manufacturer ist beyond my knowledge...

So is that question of the version suitable for raid.


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