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7200.12 or aaks?
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I'm currently looking for a fast HDD and well I did some research. Did you know that there are 2 Version of the WD5001AALS. The WD5001AALS-00L3B and the WD5001AALS-00L3B2
Take a look at the Benchmarks :
- WD5001AALS-00L3B
http://img.donanimhaber.com/image.aspx/upfiles/177895/3CBD45E976AB467F9819A5863C373C05.jpg
- WD5001AALS-00L3B2
http://i0903.hizliresim.com/2009/3/29/1133.jpg
The same thing happend with the WD3200AAKS, there were 2 revisions. One with 2x160 and one with 1x320. The WD5001AALS-00L3B2 is the single platter design.
Take a look at the Benchmarks :
- WD5001AALS-00L3B
http://img.donanimhaber.com/image.aspx/upfiles/177895/3CBD45E976AB467F9819A5863C373C05.jpg
- WD5001AALS-00L3B2
http://i0903.hizliresim.com/2009/3/29/1133.jpg
The same thing happend with the WD3200AAKS, there were 2 revisions. One with 2x160 and one with 1x320. The WD5001AALS-00L3B2 is the single platter design.
Fitseries3
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thats what i meant to say lol. half asleep when i wrote that
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I hate WD for doing that. I sent my single platter WD3200AAKS in for RMA because it had some bad sectors and I got a dual platter back. Then WD support said there is no difference.
IMO the # of platters is a significant enough change that deserves a change in model number, not just the suffix. Especially when retailers don't advertise the suffix. You really gotta do research before you gamble on one of WD's many variants of the same freakin drive. Thanks for pointing out that issue with those drives too.Np.
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Yeah WD needs to work on this issue, it's really annoying since it's almost the same thing with most their drives. The 1TB, 500GB and 320GB have this issue, the 640GB is a safe buy since it's without a doubt 2x320, however if you can get the 500 with single platter, it's even better than the 640GB. 
I had a PC running 2x500GB Seagate 7200.12, really fast but I prefer WD, the latest Firmware story with Seagate is not very reassuring even if they fixed it.
Here's a good read on 640GB HDD's : http://xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/640gb-hdd-roundup.html
I had a PC running 2x500GB Seagate 7200.12, really fast but I prefer WD, the latest Firmware story with Seagate is not very reassuring even if they fixed it.
Here's a good read on 640GB HDD's : http://xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/640gb-hdd-roundup.html
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Does this apply to WD2500AAKS? I thought I had single platter drives. Now: ?
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I searched for some Benchmarks but didn't find much. I'm not sure but I don't think they make 2x125GB HDD's. 250GB is a sure buy I think you always get 1x250GB nowadays. Try running a HD Tune test and compare it to this result I found :
http://img.7pics.info/HDTune WD 2500AAKS_b96.jpg
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One thing that really puzzles me about these drives is the high access time...
Anyway, these drives have only ever been used in RAID0 but it sure does look like one of these drives (my hdtune result):
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Humm true the access time is a little high. Did you try to set the AAM on performance profile, it's louder but access times are lower. Other than that your HD Tune score looks okay for a 2x250 RAID.
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access times dont say much, my samsung F1 1Tb was just as fast as my 74GB NCQ Raptor, and the samsung had 14ms access time vs raptor 8ms hehe
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I forget what drives we're talking about lol. I can run a test on my 640aaks (790fx) or the 640 with 32 MB cache (nvidia 570) if someone wants it.
for random it does, but sequential only you'd never know
for random it does, but sequential only you'd never know
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until you guys have experienced ssds none of you can talk about access times 
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until you guys have experienced ssds none of you can talk about access times
it's unlikely (for a few years) that I'll waste money on them
Large raid array for me
(when I'm not broke haha)
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What is AAM?
I do have the array set to the highest performance possible under Device Manager.
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until you guys have experienced ssds none of you can talk about access times
HEHEH, Insert Jimmy CD... Are you expeerienced????
Slightly balked access times for the small files, but that's from a couple monitoring applications going on in the background, along with dumb windows restore monitoring and dumb drive indexing... Cause windows doesn't like to take orders from me, when I untick those features and disable their services and then restart, they seem to pop back up.. I'm not getting the same registry warnings that I used to with my registry auditing sofware. It's like there's a ghost in the machine now. I like how WD calls you up and says HEY DUDE TRY THIS ON FOR SIZE.
They know that alot of people follow your work an some people make their purchases based on your results... Kudo's
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Hey fits, what was up with the CPU utilization in your pics? Those numbers are ridiculous!
![[I.R.A]_FBi](https://tpucdn.com/forums/data/avatars/l/39/39344.jpg?1384761935){kind=avatar}
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2 of them?
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so whats the warranty, last i recall Seagate only had 3 where WD now has 5, i recall WD only having 1 and SG having 5.