Using the Green WD10EADS in a Mirror What are the Pros/Cons of mirroring two of these for the OS in a Vista Home Premium Box, E8500, 4GB?What (if any) performance or issues would happen if you used a Black WD1001FALS as the primary in the mirror instead of the Green WD10EADS ? Using the Green WD10EADS in a Mirror What are the Pros/Cons of mirroring two of these for the OS in a Vista Home Premium Box, E8500, 4GB?What (if any) performance or issues would happen... » Read More Using the Green WD10EADS in a Mirror What are the Pros/Cons of mirroring two of these for the OS in a Vista Home Premium Box, E8500, 4GB?What (if any) performance or issues would happen if you used a Black WD1001FALS as the primary in the mirror instead of the Green WD10EADS ? « Show Less
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In my opinion, it is best to buy two identical drives at the same time when setting up either Raid 0 or 1. Dell replaced 1 failed raptor in Raid 0 with two new raptors. Speed differences between the two drives can really hamper performance.
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If you have a Black and Green mirrored together, it will handle writes at only the speed of the slower drive - both drives must be written. Reads should be shared between the drives - I dunno if the OS would be smart enough to do more reads from the Black than the Green - I wouldn't count on it. Overall, not recommended. Best to use two of the same drives for a mirror.
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Hello Wayne. Noup, I've never had that problem. There are a lot of reasons for this: Maybe one of the two mirrored HD is damaged. Check your wires and network switch, it could be some problem there. Despite what the manufacturers say, the network switchs must be powered off from time to time, I do it monthly. Another thing is a firewall blocking the connection to the client computer or limiting its speed, you need to check the connection policies. Finally, I strongly recommend you to use both ethernet connections of the WD Sentinel and to use CAT-6 cabling. It has the same cost as the CAT-5 or CAT-5e and ten times the connection capacity (1GB instead of 100MB). I hope this helps.
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That really feels like false advertising - and that is true of all the RAID mirror vendors - not just WD - really gives me a bad taste. If WD are gonna call it a Mirror 4TB then WD should include 2 X 4TB drives and not make us all look for the truth.
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B. Meerdink, neither of the two information you brought are backed by the links you posted.I've been searching the internet for the same info D. Wong wants, I'm about sure there is no document on WD's website that will state which is the internal drive interface of "My Passport Essential" products. This is something only reviewers who have opened their "My Passport Essential" drives can tell us. Do you happen to own one of those? Have you opened it up?? Has anyone out there?
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yes, it shouldi just bought one 2 days ago and it's awesome, i've got an old school mac g4 running 10.5 with two external drives connected via firewire (with all my vid's on them) and the WD box was able to connect to the computer without needing to do any kind of setup on the box. you just have to make sure your file sharing is turned on, on ur mac(durr). the only reason i say that it "SHOULD" is that my entire house is setup with gigabit, ie no wireless... so it should work so long as the WD box connects to the network that your computer is on. i'm just not sure how fast everything would be over wireless. yes, it shouldi just bought one 2 days ago and it's awesome, i've got an old school mac g4 running 10.5 with two external drives connected via firewire (with all my vid's on them) and the WD box was able to connect to the computer without needing to do any kind of setup on the box. you just have to make sure your file sharing is turned on, on ur mac(durr). the only reason i say that it "SHOULD" is that my entire house is setup with gigabit, ie no wireless... so it should work so long as the WD box connects to the network that your computer is on. i'm just not sure how... » Read More yes, it shouldi just bought one 2 days ago and it's awesome, i've got an old school mac g4 running 10.5 with two external drives connected via firewire (with all my vid's on them) and the WD box was able to connect to the computer without needing to do any kind of setup on the box. you just have to make sure your file sharing is turned on, on ur mac(durr). the only reason i say that it "SHOULD" is that my entire house is setup with gigabit, ie no wireless... so it should work so long as the WD box connects to the network that your computer is on. i'm just not sure how fast everything would be over wireless. « Show Less
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Different power profiles, speeds and cache sizes. Black drives are for desktops and run at higher speed 7200 rpm and up. good for desktops where apps need HD speed like games or editing movies. Green drives are the energy saving line and run at 5400 rpm and power down when not in use. typically good for desktops for storing data like photos, movies, music. Reds are a combo between the 2 and run around 5400 to 7200 rpm and don't power down are meant for network attached storage devices.
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These are the latest version that WD makes :) I would suggest that you call Western Digital's support line... They are both very helpful and completely knowledgeable about their products...
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You can see the comparison at the bottom of the Elements page. Only thing that separates the two is some crappy software. Save your money buy the WD Element.
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I recently got this 250GB passport and it works perfectly with my Vista home premium. I didnt encounter any problem. It was just plug and play; as simple as that.
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Sorry, but I installed it on a Late version Vista machine, and it works wonderfully! Next June I intend to rebuild this computer, and run on the latest version of Windows. I want to add more RAM than the motherboard on this machine can support (6Gb). Having bought two of those Pioneer drives, I also installed one Pioneer Blu-ray reader/burner on a new custom built PC, where I run Windows 8. I have experienced only good to great performance with the Pioneer units.
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Hi. I never use greens, they fail to quickly. Red is ok, ensure you are ok with RPM. I tried 6tb red, didn't work. 4tb is max from my experience. I have two of these, work best on eSATA. Enjoy.
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I need to swap the print circuit board, since PC cannot detect this drive any more. I have tons of data on this drive that needs retrieval. So I placed another order again. Hope I will get exact model as I bought in Nov, 2010. The model I received last time is also WD20EARS-00MVWB0. Can someone report what's their model number now, if they bought it recently? Thank you. I will report mine once I get it on Monday.
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WD Support Site says GREEN is THREE Years. Caviar Black is FIVE years. You might be able to update to the FIVE YEAR Warrantee for a fee...? Usually I've found that bad drives fail early. BUT they ALL fail eventually...:( If you don't do back ups, you WILL cry! Esp.@ 1 TB!
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Amazon have been sending me the WD20EARS-00MVWB0!If you do buy it, please buy it thru my Amazon Store, its the same price and I get a small kickback from the sale.http://astore.amazon.com/brisperpag-20/detail/B002ZCXK0IGreat drive btw, use this for my main data partition and for an external backup drive on many servers.
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I have one and it worked fine on my old XP machine, but my new Dell has Vista and so far I can't get it to work, even afer downloading the drivers that sandisk said would fix the problem. Vista keeps seeing it as a 14 in 1 drive and refuses to except any input from it. I just gave it to a friend who's still running (and I wish I was) XP and replaced it with one by Belkin.
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Wouldn't it be great if WD published such clear comparisons! Here are a few differences from what I can tell - I'm sure there are more:1. No netflix on this one2. Default UI is a little different with favorite tiles showing up by default rather than scrolling options across the bottom3. I can stream content to this one from other devices which is a little nifty. I don't think the old one did this but maybe so.4. I can't set my favorite .jpg as the background on this one - previous one supported this.I'm sure there are other things.
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To be honest, I am not really sure. I put a WD 1TB Green Drive, which other people had issues with in other DVR's & I did not have any problems.