Bought a 00MVWB0 WD20EARS drives just a couple of months ago and I concur it is by far the quietest drive in my setup....the first one presented unrecoverable sectors within the first 24hours, but the replacement is hanging in strong...

So the review has finally landed on bit-tech I am quite let down by the review actually...especially because they had the opportunity to properly test the case and instead they came up with what might be better called "extended presentation"... ...the review is just too basic, even if one were to st...

If the hdds at the bottom compartment get adequate cooling, then it will be a great buy...this will make it or break it for me and although I am very eager to give it a try - have been waiting for it for months - I am not that optimistic about low department hdd temps. They should have added a secon...

But it's interesting that they link seek errors to surface issues. Wikipedia talks about issues with "the mechanical positioning system". If these are surface errors, why are the sectors not reallocated anyway? Or are you saying it's a subset of reallocation events? Not seek errors, scan errors are...

MoJo, the bit of analysis Pierre fetched very much contradicts a naive reading what you said! Exponential usually refers to something like failures rates of 2% the first year, 4% the second, 8% the thrid, 16% the fourth and so on. That's exactly what I was commenting on...thank you I don't know wha...

For some statistics rather than anecdotal evidence I suggest reading the study Google did. They have hundreds of thousands of drives in use 24/7. The conclusions are very interesting, the bottom line being that after a couple of years the failure rate goes up exponentially. It has been some two ful...

A lot of people don't realise this but HDDs are designed with redundant storage because it is inevitable they will have bad blocks. When a read or write fails the block is remapped to one of the spares. You can see how many times this has happened by looking at the SMART data for the drive. It is 9...

No, I am saying that I don't feel comfortable with a product whose technology itself limits it to a certain lifespan... I am not saying that between any two drives, mechanical and flash based, the former is going to "live" longer...but that I would feel more reluctant to use a really old SSD, rather...

My discomfort with SSDs is the lifespan imposed by the technology... It's different to say that a product has given lifespan according to use, from saying that average life-time for a product is *. Can't easily come to terms with a product with such specifications...it will also be much more difficu...

I've been considering buying a SSD drive as well... I've been wanting to upgrade my mainboard/CPU/RAM combo but it often seems the performance hit comes from a slow and burdened hdd... If application load and read performances are much butter with SSD, then it might be a more suitable upgrade and mo...

If I tried to read your responses favorably, as I always do in fact (and I believe I've been significantly less argumentative than you throughout this thread, but engaging), I'd say that maybe some of the words I've chosen, the topics I touched upon have caused you to identify me with some particula...

Great, great, great...loved it! This is exactly the kind of computer that I have (same concept and performance/consumer range just a few years old, and similar configuration - lots of hdds) and want to build (when I finally upgrade...upcoming technologies make tough for me to make the step)... Gigab...

First of all, try not to be so selective about what you respond to... And if you are ,arguing in favor of some specific political goals try to expand more on details and what you see as preconditions for a particular way of organizing or politicizing in order for them to be effected... ...cause unti...

don't draw lines nor do I belive that the is such a thing as a class interest that can not be understood by every member of the class in question. That's the stuff of dictatorship. What is or is not in the interest of an actual class is obvious enough. Well, history shows this is not the case...cla...

I believe it has three platters and it is very quiet, but I can't compare it to the one you're referring to...
I think it's in the same class with the quietest of the WD Green

I am happy the board finally went with Subsilver2...

It's clearer, more easy to the eyes

Well it's been a long time since I wrote that... ...it won't work that way, though, capacity is the same as in other 2TB... I now have 1xWD20EADS, 1xST32000542AS & 1xWD20EARS (3x667 platters)... the latter is the most silent, dead silent really...the first one I purchased had 38 bad sectors and fail...

I am arguing that "special" interests can hardly be met and fulfilled on steady and long-term basis, unless through collective action... This means that one need not give up the "special interests" but consider how advancing and institutionalizing economic changes is dependent on class interests bei...

I'm a fan of Subsilver2 and subsilver2-based styles myself...the board you on this looks kind of ugly...also I don't like uppercase on "last post" etc... I like this better than the former (although that had become "classic" for silentpcreview), and there are many prosilver based styles that can be ...

Well, unionism can be full of faults... ...even if a more dynamic, more encompassing outlook is present either "eloquently", intellectually or practically, by the experience of such practices in time, the main goal can still sometimes be "the more we can get", even at the expense and against similar...

Just to clarify, I'm not spitting on any of the unions. Their actions have led to a lot of good things and improved the quality of life of everyone. To me, in the 21st century, you need to grow up from the let's block everything routine, and start communicating more effectively. Put out your (reali...

Good to see the higher capacity drives coming in... 2TB drives are already quite affordable, this will make it even more so...and when I have to start upgrading my hdds again - in about a year - hopefully these will be near the 150€ range... I am now just barely under 8TB of active storage (7,90TB) ...

About the EVDS WD drives, I don't believe this is a good choice...in fact a bad one... I read an article - can't find the link at the moment - explaining that these drives have their error correction functionality limited to prevent video record operations from missing frames...i.e. if an error is n...

This was a great article and an even better idea as an article/test category... I am excited to see this... Would love to see the same kind of article with more mainstream (like standard ATX mainboards and cases) components, i.e. a home server pc, which may also be the standard pc for a user...well,...

And here comes the Define XL http://www.fractal-design.com/?view=pro ... =2&prod=54

I had been told it would cost around 150€...hope we get availability quickly, as well as a review here at silentpcreview

I just came across this new "spring mounting" pattern for hard drives which supposedly "kills vibration"...

What's your take on it?

http://www.rwlabs.com/article.php?cat=& ... genumber=6

Yep, I am waiting the DefineXL to be released, in expectation of getting a "quieter" case, which means it will have to be a lot sturdier than the Define R2. I am really happy they opted for keeping the sides and top without holes, there's greater prospect there when looking to set up a "as quiet as ...

Well, I cannot generalize...also I don't know if we're talking about the same problems... The WD15EARS was not recognized as an advanced format drive when connected to the sil3112 controller...I now keep it connected to the Nfroce4 sata controller... The WD20EADS somehow conflicted with another driv...

I got a WD 1.5 EARS drive as a replacement to another drive... Very quiet indeed, but the load/unload is quite high really... Will you be running WDidle 3 to rectify the problem? If you do, please tell us how it went. Also got a WD20EADS as a replacement for a 1.5TB Seagate drive with reallocated s...

I got a WD 1.5 EARS drive as a replacement to another drive...
Very quiet indeed, but the load/unload is quite high really...

Within like 10 days of usage the number has gone up to 1075...

This on an Nforce 4 sata controller, on a WinXP Pro SP3 OS...