http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/ Engadget Comments for WD ships 7200RPM 2TB desktop hard drives: Caviar Black and RE4 http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/Sep 1st 2009 8:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/Sep 1st 2009 8:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/
There must be a way to disable this "feature"!]]>Sep 1st 2009 9:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/@ someone, yeah but it's worth it to me, it'll be fun while it lasts.]]>Sep 1st 2009 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/And yeah spinning down/up too often (as in every 5 minutes) probably isn't good but having it spin for 23 hours when you only use it one hour isn't good either, you have to find you sweet spot.
]]>Sep 1st 2009 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/Thank you]]>Sep 2nd 2009 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/
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answer is the same as every other laptop on the planet.


NO.]]>Sep 1st 2009 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/Sep 1st 2009 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/Sep 1st 2009 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/Sep 1st 2009 8:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/Sep 1st 2009 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/Ever larger and larger containers with the same small hole to pour the data in.]]>Sep 1st 2009 8:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/
We haven't quite found a storage mechanism that is as reliable as an HDD. SDD's are getting there, but they still have some longevity concerns (performance loss over time, limited number of rewrites). Regardless of how high the number of rewrites and how optimized they are, it still seems to be stopping consumers from adapting them in droves...but that may be due to price.]]>Sep 1st 2009 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/
Besides, at higher rotational speeds you run into heating issues--for that you need something like a Velociraptor (they spin faster but have heat sinks to compensate).]]>Sep 1st 2009 8:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/
It also uses less energy and platter's don't break as easily at lower speeds.]]>Sep 1st 2009 8:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/]]>Sep 1st 2009 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/Sep 1st 2009 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/Sep 1st 2009 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/Sep 1st 2009 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/Sep 1st 2009 9:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/Sep 1st 2009 8:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/Sep 1st 2009 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/
I was considering the 2TB Caviar Black for RAID NAS use since it has the same 5yr warranty as the RE4. But reading this article, I see that the Caviar Black doesn't support some features such as NCQ, TLER, etc. Oh well, I hope the RE4 is not a lot more expensive on the street!

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I spent a long time on the phone with WD furious that these drives spin down after 10 minutes. The level 2 tech said it is built into the firmware and that you cannot change it. The OS will not do anything for you with these drives.

I am an ultra-loyal WD customer. This made me stop and pause. I was so ticked that they forced me to "be green".

Therefore, I wrote a tiny little program and aptly named it MyB**** (I use it on a MyBook II).

Problem solved. I'm still ticked.]]>Sep 1st 2009 9:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/That lag isn't even all because of the drive inside, the actual enclosure is powering down the drives very aggressively, causing that lag. BTW I agree that it's annoying since sometimes an app will try to access the drive and since it's spun down everything has to wait for the drive to spin back up, but that has nothing to do with the drives in this post.
If the lag really bugs you just take the drive out of that enclosure and either put it in a different enclosure or if you have space put it internally. Personally I don't care enough to swap it since I don't expect high performance out of an external drive largely meant for bulk file storage.
But I still trust WD drives a heck of a lot more than other drives and I've owned plenty through the years. However I think their external enclosures could use some work since they don't always behave right.]]>Sep 2nd 2009 6:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/Sep 2nd 2009 12:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/
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http://carltonbale.com/2007/05/how-to-break-the-2tb-2-terabyte-file-system-limit/

Read up on MBR vs. GPT partitions. This has been discussed alot. I do agree, though: enclosures are hella overpriced.]]>Sep 1st 2009 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/
RBC is just SCSI in packets. And it doesn't have a 2TB limit. As mentioned above, perhaps you're thinking of the limitations of the FDISK (MBR) partitioning scheme.

Wwhat: eSATA doesn't fix this, as it isn't a USB issue.]]>Sep 1st 2009 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/Sep 1st 2009 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/Sep 1st 2009 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/
Cheers :)]]>Sep 1st 2009 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/Sep 1st 2009 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/wd-ships-7200rpm-2tb-desktop-hard-drives-caviar-black-and-re4/
The problem? I need 15 of those... :/]]>Sep 1st 2009 5:10PM