I think there's still the question of whether this is really even an issue - it's entirely possible that it's simply the wrong value being reported by firmware.

WD Green drives aren't exactly failing in droves like the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 drives are at the moment.

Wait a few days and see if WD pony up with the 2TB WD20EADS allegedly due any day now.

...what about mounting a HTPC style case suspended from the underside of the table? I would suggest an Eee Box except for the processor.

Would be much simpler!

Suppose you want 2TB of capacity for a 24/7 server. From a power/noise standpoint, what's the best combination of drives? Wait a week or two for the Western Digital 2TB Caviar Green (looks like it is no longer vaporware). Single HDD, should be low noise like the rest of the GPs, high GB/W ratios fo...

I wonder with the advent of ever cheaper SSDs if WD correctly called the large storage market with the GP/green line and these large AND fast drives are out of touch? Looks like you don't get much more, other than heat and noise, over 5400rpm drives. Hmm, 60GB SSD and 1TB GP drive would be schweet ...

Sandisk have a new SSD about to hit the shelves - sounds like with a proprietary controller chip, not the JMicron. Available in capacities of 60, 120 and 240GB, the unit MSRPs are $149, $249 and $499, respectively. http://driveyourlaptop.com/products/sandisk-ssd-g3- Fantastic price point! Almost dow...

You can buy short cables as well - Google around for them. I have a 5" AC Ryan round IDE cable for my optical drive. Frees up a SATA port.

Have a look at the specs in my signature - that's my home server for virtualisation. All of my VMs run from a single 300GB VelociRaptor - but disk issue slows them down horribly if I try to start several concurrently, so if you have two or more VMs that are disk intensive, consider the suggestion of...

HDT1284 has four heat pipes, 1283 has three. I would assume that HDT1284 is the better for this reason. Actually the 1283 seems to have better performance - the three heatpipes ALL make contact with a Core 2 sized CPU, whereas of the four heatpipes on the 1284 - two make full contact, and two overh...

Probably my thread. My current solution (haven't been able to find a Novibes 2.5 in Australia) - I simply unscrewed the VR from the icepack, and left it sitting in it loose. Without being rigidly attached, the whine mine was producing is gone, and the temps stay under 30C most of the time. Given the...

It's occured to me tonight that much of the sound from my Antec 300 is case vibration - and a lot of it stems from the case fans. Has anyone tried soft mounting the 140mm tri-cool fan in one of these cases using those rubber screw replacements?

This link was provided in StorageReview's WD20EADS thread: hdwd6400aacs.pdf Well that appears to be the first official confirmation that the 2TB drive is not vaporware! edit - just did a Google search - that PDF only appears in one search result listing and it's not on the WD website. Where did it ...

Yes... the absence of any mention of any cache on this drive is making me think it's not going to be worth saving a few dollars on compared to the Vertex (if real world usage shows it is as good as OCZ claim).

Vicotnik wrote:I vote for the three platter version of the WD10EACS. It's cheap, quiet and power efficient.

Which is basically the same as the WD10EADS, but with 16MB of cache instead of 32MB.

The thread mentions that the Apex drives have two controller chips and a RAID chip. So not BS, but true internal striping.

The real question I think is whether these drives have onboard cache or not.

There's also mention of "Apex 2" in the works - so these SSDs will be the first with the technology.

I think I'm yet to hear my WD 1TB WD10EADS drives... I enabled AAM on them anyway. They're very cool running, but I primarily use them as bulk storage anyway.

From the OCZ forums... http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=47949 They are releasing a new drive in January called the Apex, to quote one of the OCZ guys: Vertex Series High performance Apex Series performance on a budget Solid Series Value line Solid will disappear as we work on...

The included fan with the Xigmatek S1283 is quiet if you leave it on PWM... mine's running at 1400RPM (no PWM) and is still tolerable (I find it drops the mobo temps about 6C by doing this!).

There's some extremes here - either counts in the low hundreds, or counts in the tens or hundreds of thousands.

Is it a disk firmware issue, or a controller issue?

Probably the WD10EADS, in which case it will also be 32mb cache. I'm very happy with those drives.

Pull 6GB of RAM and try starting it with 2GB? May be dodgy RAM? If it crashes again with 2GB, switch the 2GB over for another stick - you may have one bad stick and there's a 1 in 4 chance that's the one you'll try first.

samuelmorris wrote:One of my housemates purchased a terabyte greenpower, and it turned out to be a WD10EAVS, which I'd never heard of. Any info on how these compare?

See viewtopic.php?p=443343#443343

Someone else just mentioned this drive in another thread.

I found some specs - the drive only has an 8mb cache compared to the EACS (16mb) and EADS (32mb).

Yes you can - the fan will just run at full speed. You need enough clearance around the header though on the motherboard - on my Asus board, the PSU fan header (3 pin) is butted up against another component, so I can't use a PWM 4 pin plug on it, but I can on the chassis fan header (3 pin).

Took the plunge tonight and tore that black sticker off the icepack, and tried my new torx bit out on the VelociRaptor - it's now sitting on a foam pad in the bottom of my machine. RIP mosquito! Finally believe it is a near-silent drive. Temps immediately jumped from ~24C average to 37C, so I flippe...

You can check this with I've just checked mine (2 x WD10EADS in mdadm RAID 1) - drives have 410 hours of use, but only a load cycle count of 211. That's under Ubuntu Server 8.10.

The best combo I've seen in terms of matching are the Xigmatek HDT-S1283 + Xigmatek Porter N881 chipset cooler I've got that combo - I haven't found the need for RAM cooling yet. Might add another directed fan to cool a motherboard hotspot (mosfets near RAM) before I add anything else. Holding a fa...

I'm scared to ask with two 40mm fans... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817998037 Does anyone have one of these, and how loud is it? Would it be obnoxious for a PC under the desk? Currently I'm just running 120mm and 140m tri-cools on low. Is there such a thing as a quiet 40mm ...

...so are these available yet? Not sure if the announcement means they can be purchased today.

$129 USD for 30GB, $249 for 60GB... you'd just get two 30GB drives and stick them in RAID 0 for the $9 difference.

Glad to see there's smaller sizes being made available cheaply - great for a boot OS drive.