Amazon should separate the reviews by drive sizes Although these drives are from the same series, their reliability differs according to sizes and sometimes dramatically so. Amazon should separate the reviews by drive sizes and should do that for all...
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I agree with you there. They have started lumping lots of items together. Different versions and disc formats of movies etc.. There is really a big difference in performance and other factors in hard drives. The larger the drive capacity, the smaller the track when you get to the max number of platters. I doubt they can fit any more platters in this form factor and they are now making 5TB drives! I have always stayed away from capacities that are on the cutting edge. I wait for the early adopters to find the flaws. At least they keep the Q & A separate.
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It was my experience that Newegg used inferior packaging when delivering my drives. I had a horrendous time with them, had to return 3 drives that were shock damaged during shipping. I had no such problems with drives purchased form Amazon. Just my two cents, but it does make cents.
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There's two types of drives for these you may want to check what you have before ordering
750550
The documentation is a bit unclear on this. In one place it says to use the same size drive, but in the "Replacing a Drive" section is says that you should use the same size or larger, but the extra capacity would be unused. Assuming you are using RAID1 then you should use the same size drives. The drives are SATA interface. I used two identical (same manufacturer, model and probably the same lot) 2TB drives in my configuration.
1112433
what? will size of partitions? As long as the destination drive is the same size or larger than the original drive, you're good to go. If that's what you're asking.
1521297
Yes, there is. Under "features and details" all the sizes are listed with the drive sizes as well.
1803519
Exactly. Some things, like hard drives of the same make, model and series that just have different sizes... those I can see lumping together. But these Razer mice are NOT THE SAME PRODUCT at all. A review of one is not valid for a review of another one. Amazon failed big time combining these.
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Inside the enclosure there are two (2) independent hardisks. RAID 1 redundancy works just as expected, with one drive mirroring the other. It hasn't happened to me yet, but the literature says that in case of a crash. you simply replace the bad drive with a new one and the device will sync itself up, automatically. If the drive is under warranty, you call WD and they'll ship you a replacement drive. The case is designed so that the user can replace the drive easily. So, it's not marketing BS. It works as expected.
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I agree with you there. They have started lumping lots of items together. Different versions and disc formats of movies etc.. There is really a big difference in performance and other factors in hard drives. The larger the drive capacity, the smaller the track when you get to the max number of platters. I doubt they can fit any more platters in this form factor and they are now making 5TB drives! I have always stayed away from capacities that are on the cutting edge. I wait for the early adopters to find the flaws.At least they keep the Q & A separate.
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There is a small jumper that comes with the drive that will allow you to make it either 3 or 6 whichever you need, the 6 is faster and may work with your system, Try it on 6 first and if it doesn't work you can use the 3 .
457110
nope, your drive should be fine. These used to be shown as being OEM (NOT Retail packaging) shipped drives, but I don't see that now. So, if you were expecting a retail box, then return it; otherwise there are no differences.
2070892
My experience has been that it will copy hard drives that have errors on them exactly as they are. What it won't do is copy drives with EISA partitions on them. Most of the older Dell computers utilized that type of partition and this unit just balks when it gets to that partition. I like the unit and the reporting is better than some of the others but it still leaves you wondering.
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I would trust the website over amazon. I have the 33gig version and it seems to be operating at a reasonable speed. Amazon is more prone to errors then the company website in my opinion.It is a great flash drive I highly recommend it.
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I just had a Western Digital 2TB My Book fail miserably (miserably!!! Dead!) after two months. I've never had any other drive fail (and I've used much smaller capacity WD external drives w/out issue in the past). But i'm now a Seagate (1TB Freeagent) user because I won't trust the larger WD's any longer. Once bitten! ;) Since the failure, many of my colleagues have admitted the same type of failure from their WD's and are using Seagates with good results. If you search online, you'll see very mixed reviews with similar negative views of the Seagates, but I can only speak from my own very frustrating experience with my WD. I just had a Western Digital 2TB My Book fail miserably (miserably!!! Dead!) after two months. I've never had any other drive fail (and I've used much smaller capacity WD external drives w/out issue in the past). But i'm now a Seagate (1TB Freeagent) user because I won't trust the larger WD's any longer. Once bitten! ;) Since the failure, many of my colleagues have admitted the same type of failure from their WD's and are using Seagates with good results. If you search online, you'll see very mixed reviews with similar negative views of the Seagates, but I can only speak from my own very... » Read More I just had a Western Digital 2TB My Book fail miserably (miserably!!! Dead!) after two months. I've never had any other drive fail (and I've used much smaller capacity WD external drives w/out issue in the past). But i'm now a Seagate (1TB Freeagent) user because I won't trust the larger WD's any longer. Once bitten! ;) Since the failure, many of my colleagues have admitted the same type of failure from their WD's and are using Seagates with good results. If you search online, you'll see very mixed reviews with similar negative views of the Seagates, but I can only speak from my own very frustrating experience with my WD. « Show Less
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ive always wanted a pioneer drive they have always been stated as very good there are others ive tried about 4 diff brands now im trying a sata bluray {pioneer} it will fit your bays but i havent used it enough to say its any better or worse
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Dear Han, I received an answer request via Amazon.com The product is fine. The issue is that the two discs come togehter with something called "array", which means that they are arranged with a RAID so when something is written into the hard drive, it's written in both discs at the same time (mirror array). This is particularly useful for backups so if a hard drive fails (and they do!) you have a second drive in good shape to retrieve the information and then to replace the broken hard drive. You may call this as a redundant backup. I had the same problem than you because the brochure is not so clear about the array and you can think that you're buying some capacity and then it turns out that the capacity is there but mirrored... The good thing is that you can buy more hard drives in amazon.com and expand the capacity :) I hope this helps.
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OEM drives in my case, possibly European models not for sale in the US. Not covered by manufacturer's warranty - at least, not on the four drives I purchased and received today (and am sending back tomorrow). Strange that Amazon doesn't require sellers to publish warranty info. It's as if they encourage sales of gray market goods.