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Western Digital manufactures desktop edition hard drives and RAID Edition hard drives.

Do you think theyвЂ™ll give away RAID drives for free? You guys donвЂ™t check the WD FAQs do you? It pays to research before you buy, especially since WD makes RAID specific drives that cost more than desktop drives. IвЂ™m willing to argue the levels of RAID peformance to a point, but as of now these drives seem like they have been crippled specifically to fail in RAID. I like the portability of Intel ICH built RAIDs moreвЂ¦so the drives are still going back within a week if WD doesnвЂ™t respond to support request.

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A windows mirror array was still epic fail though. Now IвЂ™ll have to go back and check and see if the folks blaming Microsoft were running WD drives.Дўnd Edit: Interestingly enough, a striped array built in Windows disk management produced good resultsвЂ¦110MB/s sustained writes and 70MB/s internal copies. I originally poked around the slow transfer rate problem in the Windows forums, since my drives tested and formatted OK. I hope this is just a firmware problem and not a marketing decision.

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If things keep up, NewEgg will have to throw one of these in free with every order of $100 or more just to get them out of their warehouse. Not to mention, as the first вЂњAdvanced FormatвЂќ drives, youвЂ™d think they would want them to be as robust as possible to help with adoption. CвЂ™monвЂ¦if IвЂ™m buying a 1TB+ drive, what are the odds that I woudlnвЂ™t be interested in securing my data with a mirror or going for broke with a massive single volume? I understand that performance might not be AS GOOD as with black or enterprise, but I think intentially cripling the hardware via the firmware is just stupid in the long run. One wonders if this is a firmware issue or yet another attempt to force everyone to pay more for вЂњRAID approvedвЂќ drives. For now this means simply not using these drives in RAID.

I do not have problems with the drives in standaloneвЂ¦sequential/sustained writes occur at about 70 MB/s. Sounds like BS, but IвЂ™m not that up on HDD technology) (I thought I saw somewhere a post that mentions вЂњgreenвЂќ drives running at unique RPMвЂ¦and therefore out of sync with one another. IвЂ™m sure someone could explain the technical reasons for this. Has anyone run the alignment utility on a newer OS to see if everything is in order?ДЄfter running a few more tests, I can confirm that the problem (for me) occurs when placing the WD15EARS drives in any form of RAID, be it via the Intel BIOS or within windows. The only other obvious differencse are that the machine which is slower is an ICH9R system running 64bit Win7, while the вЂњfastвЂќ machine is ICH10R system running 32bit Win7. IвЂ™ll have to research the WD tool to verify, but it would be nice if Win7 could tell you that outright.

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That could be a problem with either the HDD reporting or windows software detecting.ДЄlso, since it is an advanced format drive, I was concerned that perhaps the factory вЂњalignmentвЂќ of the sectors wasnвЂ™t done correctly. AndвЂ¦if the drive is transfering dataвЂ¦then it wouldnвЂ™t exactly be idle. Disk sleep after 20 minutes) though it seems odd that would cause any problems immediately. I disabled the power saving features of Win7 (i.e.

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The 64k buffer of the EARS series might stave off some of the problem, but not all. These arenвЂ™t the painfully slow speeds that others are describing, but IвЂ™m wondering if they might be related. in another, they slow down to about ~10MB/s. In one machine, the drives seem to move fine individually, getting 76MB/s transfer rates. IвЂ™m still attempting to track down if the вЂњadvanced formatвЂќ is causing me issues or not. IвЂ™ve noted similar problems with my new ED15EARS drives.

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