http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/ Engadget Comments for WD's 'Advanced Format' Caviar Green HDD gets benchmarked, minor benefits found 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/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/Feb 27th 2010 2:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/
I heard that they have Blast Processing.

]]>Feb 27th 2010 2:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/Feb 27th 2010 5:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/You guys must have good EARS.]]>Feb 27th 2010 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/Feb 27th 2010 2:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/Feb 27th 2010 2:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/Feb 27th 2010 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/
another problem was i'd stream to my 360 and for some reason the 360 seems to lose sight of the drive. i think it may have to do with the low power mode green drives seem to go into that maybe shuts it off to save money. not sure. No issues using windows 7 though at startup or with the 360.

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Check your BIOS settings. You may have set "boot from USB" above "boot from first hard drive." Try disabling boot from USB or move it to the bottom of the list and see if it works.]]>Feb 27th 2010 3:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/Feb 27th 2010 2:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/Feb 27th 2010 2:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/Feb 27th 2010 4:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/Feb 27th 2010 5:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/They tested it on W7 which supports 4K sectors.]]>Feb 27th 2010 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/
Just make sure you don't let Linux take those drives at their word. They lie to you so that they can work with XP. They pretend to be "old fashioned" drives. If you don't partition them right (on a proper physical block boundary) then there's performance problems.]]>Feb 27th 2010 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/- Windows xp running with RAID0 array;
- Windows XP Mode in Windows 7
As a result both of them read/write slower than using CD..

It should be fine if you only use Windows 7, or xp on a single drive.
Unfortunately, those 2 cases are essential to me, so I have to buy another 2 drives without Advanced Format...]]>Feb 27th 2010 6:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/Feb 27th 2010 6:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/
Anyway, I still plan to buy other model because I find these 2 perform slightly slower than my 2 old RE2 WD3201ABYS drives.]]>Feb 27th 2010 7:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/
Why in the heck would you think about using a 'Green' drive in any sort of RAID array? RAID 0 is designed for speed. These are designed for energy savings which means the platters spin down and it shuts off frequenty.
You need to invest in RAID ready drives. My Samsung F1 enterprise class drive cost me less then $100 and is the fastest 1TB on the market.
If you want a reliable RAID array, stay away from 'Green' drives or any bargin based drive. You're setting yourself up for data loss.]]>Feb 27th 2010 7:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/I just wanted bigger drives, so went to the shops, saw the price listings, oh this has 64MB cache, and the cheapest of 1TB too.
That's why I got those 2.
I don't like Samsung from my past experience tho.]]>Feb 27th 2010 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/
What I mentioned has absolutely nothing to do with advanced format.]]>Feb 27th 2010 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/mcl]]>Feb 27th 2010 7:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/Feb 27th 2010 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/Feb 27th 2010 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/Feb 27th 2010 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/Feb 27th 2010 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/
I had always assumed that both AF and non-AF would have the exact same storage capacity, but I figured the space that files took up would be less (i.e. a large file would occupy 400MB of space vs 360MB of space due to the decreased use of Sync/DAM and ECC sectors.) This doesn't look to be the case using a direct Get Info comparison between original and backup file sizes, but maybe I'm missing something here.]]>Feb 27th 2010 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/Feb 27th 2010 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/
However, I upgraded to Windows 7 (from Vista) and the problem really didn't affect me any more. So, 7 must have improved it somehow.

Finally, if you plan on running Virtual Machines off this drive (like I do), you will regret it. The drive shuts off if there's no activity and your VM will be hosed.

Dang it I hate WD Green drives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But I swear by all of their other drives though... I still love WD and have for more than a decade.]]>Feb 27th 2010 5:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/Feb 27th 2010 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/
Oddly, I'm in Windows 7 and am having these problems. It may also be related to me using eSATA.]]>Feb 27th 2010 10:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/Feb 28th 2010 12:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/
at least till upgrading to vail, that is..]]>Feb 28th 2010 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/wds-advanced-format-caviar-green-hdd-gets-benchmarked-minor/
I have two of these drives in my home server and haven't noticed any problems. What would the problem be?]]>Feb 28th 2010 3:50PM