How do you have a 60 RPM solid state drive? That's a practically non-spinning platter. I'm terrified of the potential performance given the detail.
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I believe that info is a typo, it does not have rpm's, it's a Solid State Disk, the speed is very good, as long as what you are running is ARM compatabile. the ubuntu distro that comes with it is acceptable when run in Gnome Fallback, less so in Unity. Android runs great, but is a pain the ass to Root.
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I can check later when I take it offline. Right now the green disk access light is flashing rapidly indicating a lot of disk activity. In other words, it is currently recording some TV via my Snapstream / Beyond TV recording software. I'll get back to this maybe next week. I do know that it is 7200 RPM.
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Thank you for the info, I'll take a look. By the way would you recommend a 1tb 5400rpm or a 750gb 7200rpm? Is the speed trade-off worth the space trade off? thank you
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My guess (as it's so hard to find the rpm spec anywhere on the WD site) is that it's 5400rpm. That said, it's pretty zippy and I've had no problems (other than Pro Tools refusing to work with it due to the non-Oxford chipset) streaming audio and video from it.
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Good points. It's still relatively new, and I wonder especially how the hard drive model has held up. My new one arrived DOA, and now I'm really struggling over whether to ask Amazon for a refund or an exchange. This baby may be intended to be Solid State all the way, which means the hard drive models will be unwanted period pieces in another year or two.
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5400 is actually better (or at the very least, no worse) than 7200 for large files since the heads spend less time bouncing around the platters trying to find your data. Also once you RAID these, which is what they're designed for, they'll be plenty fast enough that you won't think twice about how fast they spin.
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It is quite fast. I never ran any benchmark tests but it is considerably faster than USB2.0. Just make sure you have USB3 ports in your computer. In case you only have USB2 ports, the drive still works but with USB2 speeds only.
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This drive is treated as a cache. All software that is loaded goes thru this cache. This isn't a traditional solid state drive that you have access to. Lot of people call this the new hybrid drive setup. Having a traditional hard drive for storage and then having all that information going thru the 24 gig solid state cache drive. Hope this helps.
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It uses a 7200 RPM drive. Version 1 used a 5900 RPM drive. Both are SATA III with 64MB cache.
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I'm running it on a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R mainboard. This week I attached a 250Gb EVO ssd to the IO Crest and the Samsung Magician software is reporting it as a SATA 3 (6Gb/s) interface. My drive benchmarks at 428 (sequential read), 57935 iops (random) and 402 (sequential write), 24716 iops (random), now well below the 540 / 520 max indicated. The drive has slightly better than 50% freespace.
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Thank you for contacting us. I am not sure so I looked at other posts about this. It seems they are very close in performance but this stood out: "The other thing to keep in mind when choosing a drive is that Western Digital?s enterprise drives are meant to be constantly in use, 24/7. The consumer drives are rated for 300,000 load/unload cycles, whereas the enterprise drives are are rated for double that at 600,000 load/unload cycles. This means the enterprise drive is guaranteed to have a longer use-life than a consumer drive under identical conditions." Please let me know if I can be of further assistance.
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I had an issue with the 7200 rpm drive not booting up from my MacBook Pro, and returned it for a refund. I have several of these running at the slower speed (5600 rpm) with no problems, though I did have one that had a port that loosened and became unusable.
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Yes. Swapped mine in/out with old spinning platters as part of drive cloning/rebooting. Did this with my XPS 630i, but found there was no way to do AHCI on the 630i. SSD still worked, but not at full speed, & I was concerned re: adverse impact on drive longevity, so it turned out to be time to build a new machine, too.
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I am migrating to the WD Red drives. I have the 3 TB versions and will start using the 4 TB versions as I upgrade. I had Seagate Barracuda 2 TB ST2000DM001's installed and they have been failing VERY consistently. I deployed the Seagate's at work in a DS1511+ and have had similar issues with them there. I am replacing them with WD Reds. I wanted the higher spindle speed of the Seagate's but to have them failing so much I'm never using them again. Thankfully I recovered before we had a catastrophic failure.
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I have had the drive as my main operating system, as well as mass storage drive for almost a year, and so far, it has been reliable, fast, and quiet. However, as the previous person responded, I am using Linux, which does put less stress on the drive and the file system is a bit better at file allocation, ETC...My experience is very positive in this environment. (Using the 3TB version partitioned into three sections)
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For hard drives, mine arrived with Toshiba DT drives at 7200rpm. They work exceptionally well and are slightly faster in my tests than other drives at the same rating.
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The drive is very quite for a large storage device. I have 2 hooked up and it's still quite. They only spin up when you need them.