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?
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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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Dr. Bozarth, I take all reviews with a grain of salt of course. I also noticed the disparity in the ratings between the two sites. I usually frequent thehomeservershow.com. Many of the forum members are I.T. Professionals, or like myself, a medical professional with a keen interest in technology. The Western Digital Green Drives were the go to drives in the past, but were not ideal for NAS/RAID situations. Many of the members have had good luck with the RED drives, but still recommend a program such as SpinRite or HD Tune Pro to evaluate the drive before putting it into service. I can only recall one situation where a member reported a DOA Red Drive, and many more situations where the Green drives presented problems. The recommended drives for your scenario would be the WD Red drives or the Seagate NAS drives. RAID-1 would be a good solution, and a cloud backup such as CrashPlan on top of that. I have personally purchased two 3TB Red drives and have had no problems with them in the 6-12 months I have owned them. Hope this helps.
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I haven't hit a loser with either ASUS player while WDs aren't so friendly. I haven't used it for music yet, so I don't know if it reads the playlists straight up. I haven't tried .isos as others have recommended, but it plays mkv and the variety of avis just fine. I have the WD Live and Mini, too, and I think I'm growing to like the ASUS products for the ease of use, variety of file formats, and more visible fonts (I even set up the R1 for my 82-year old father, and plug in soccer games for him when I get them). Thx for the google suggestion.
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You would need to create a copy to your external USB or similar attached drive. In my case I installed a fresh copy of the OS on this drive once installed and had previously copied basic machine (Toshiba) drivers to that OS to a USB flash drive since I was installing from scratch to my Toshiba laptop. I do not believe such drive duplication or mirroring software was included in this drive's purchase (but I could be wrong).
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Hi Rebecca, I bought this external optical drive primarily for my Asus 1215N notebook computer running WIndows 7 Home Premium. It works fine there. It also works fine on my newer Lenovo TCM82 running Windows 7 Professional and my older Dell machines still running WIndows XP. I have intentionally stayed as far away from WIndows 8.x as I could based on early reviews of that operating system, so I can't directly confirm that it would work there. However, I would be surprised (amazed?) if it did not. I think it would be totally safe to buy it from a reputable vendor who would accept a return if it did not work on your system(s). Good luck. Hi Rebecca, I bought this external optical drive primarily for my Asus 1215N notebook computer running WIndows 7 Home Premium. It works fine there. It also works fine on my newer Lenovo TCM82 running Windows 7 Professional and my older Dell machines still running WIndows XP. I have intentionally stayed as far away from WIndows 8.x as I could based on early reviews of that operating system, so I can't directly confirm that it would work there. However, I would be surprised (amazed?) if it did not. I think it would be totally safe to buy it from a reputable vendor who would accept a return if... » Read More Hi Rebecca, I bought this external optical drive primarily for my Asus 1215N notebook computer running WIndows 7 Home Premium. It works fine there. It also works fine on my newer Lenovo TCM82 running Windows 7 Professional and my older Dell machines still running WIndows XP. I have intentionally stayed as far away from WIndows 8.x as I could based on early reviews of that operating system, so I can't directly confirm that it would work there. However, I would be surprised (amazed?) if it did not. I think it would be totally safe to buy it from a reputable vendor who would accept a return if it did not work on your system(s). Good luck. « Show Less
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Personally, I mirror my internal C drive to an external drive once a month on all 3 of my PC's in my house. I use a cheap USB3.0 drive dock and Macrium Reflect to mirror the internal drive to the external drive in the dock. Is pretty easy to do. I have SSD's in all 3 pc's which all started with a typical HD. I use the original HD to mirror to in the dock, then I put them in a static bag then into a fire safe in case one of my SSD's dies on me. I have external backups for all my music and videos as well. Those files are on my media server on internal HDD's and I just use a simple sync program with external drives to keep those backed up too. Personally, I mirror my internal C drive to an external drive once a month on all 3 of my PC's in my house. I use a cheap USB3.0 drive dock and Macrium Reflect to mirror the internal drive to the external drive in the dock. Is pretty easy to do. I have SSD's in all 3 pc's which all started with a typical HD. I use the original HD to mirror to in the dock, then I put them in a static bag then into a fire safe in case one of my SSD's dies on me. I have external backups for all my music and videos as well. Those files are on my media server on internal HDD's and I just use a simple sync... » Read More Personally, I mirror my internal C drive to an external drive once a month on all 3 of my PC's in my house. I use a cheap USB3.0 drive dock and Macrium Reflect to mirror the internal drive to the external drive in the dock. Is pretty easy to do. I have SSD's in all 3 pc's which all started with a typical HD. I use the original HD to mirror to in the dock, then I put them in a static bag then into a fire safe in case one of my SSD's dies on me. I have external backups for all my music and videos as well. Those files are on my media server on internal HDD's and I just use a simple sync program with external drives to keep those backed up too. « Show Less
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Sorry, but I'm not sure... I used 2 hdd 2.5 512 GB mirroring, for a year works fine, then one hdd die, but all the data was perfect at the other hdd. we can't see the rebuilding status, just the hardware swith.
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Personally, I would not buy EX2 based on your need. It's more expensive. I would rather buy My Cloud Mirror. It's not hot swap-able but it's easy to replace a failure hard drive. You will have one hard drive to store all data (music, video, and/or picture) while the other hard drive will keep everything; therefore, if the main hard drive fails, the other hard drive will run to keep it functions normally. Please remember that the capacity will be divided in half. For instance, if the My Cloud Mirror states it has 6 GB, it means it actually has only 3 GB (3 GB x 2). You can force to use all (6 GB) capacity but then the fault tolerance feature will be disable: no mirror. Hope it help. :) Personally, I would not buy EX2 based on your need. It's more expensive. I would rather buy My Cloud Mirror. It's not hot swap-able but it's easy to replace a failure hard drive. You will have one hard drive to store all data (music, video, and/or picture) while the other hard drive will keep everything; therefore, if the main hard drive fails, the other hard drive will run to keep it functions normally. Please remember that the capacity will be divided in half. For instance, if the My Cloud Mirror states it has 6 GB, it means it actually has only 3 GB (3 GB x 2). You can force to use all... » Read More Personally, I would not buy EX2 based on your need. It's more expensive. I would rather buy My Cloud Mirror. It's not hot swap-able but it's easy to replace a failure hard drive. You will have one hard drive to store all data (music, video, and/or picture) while the other hard drive will keep everything; therefore, if the main hard drive fails, the other hard drive will run to keep it functions normally. Please remember that the capacity will be divided in half. For instance, if the My Cloud Mirror states it has 6 GB, it means it actually has only 3 GB (3 GB x 2). You can force to use all (6 GB) capacity but then the fault tolerance feature will be disable: no mirror. Hope it help. :) « Show Less
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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 one 2. Default UI is a little different with favorite tiles showing up by default rather than scrolling options across the bottom 3. 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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Try the Toshiba Gigabeat line. I'm not sure of the model numbers, but at the moment, the company is only producing a 2GB and 4GB model. I know from experience that the 2GB (love this player) is compatible with Vista. The 4GB is also supposed to be compatible but since I don't have one, I can't swear to it.
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I have been using it with OS X Mount Lion since the OS came out with no issues. I have had no overheating issues, and although I don't use the WD software that is included I wouldn't object to it for any reason. Just format, load, and go...very easy.
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works great with GPT partition tables and linux. I'm using 3.17 kernel (ubuntu based) on an i3 haswell system. wd blue enterprise (7200rpm) drives are clearly seen and full size is accessible. even via linux md-raid (mirroring) it works great. be sure to use gpt tables and not older dos style partitions.
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Reporting as promised! just did the swap, first time I've done this, no problems whatsoever. Fits the FW like a glove. Bought the acomdata tango external enclosure and used Acronis Migrate Easy 7.0 (free 15 day trial) to clone the hard drive. Now I have 243gb free space instead of 9gbs. The whole thing took 4 hours (because the 250gb HD was practically full). Very easy. So, go for it I guess. Oh, and the windows experience index jumped from 4.6 to 4.7 due to the higher HD transfer rate (which went from 5.1 to 5.9)also boosting the graphics performance from 4.6 to 4.7. Good luck.
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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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I have Vista Home Premium and it works fine. Was recognized as soon as I plugged it in.
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for my use case it works faster that WD. I transfer files over LAN. Wifi will be slow.
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80" you'll want 1080 resolution so it looks clean. USB 2.0 devices should stream that just fine. If you plan on streaming infrequently the green would probably be okay, but if this is your main video source go with the black. Greens are meant to store data and leave it where blacks are made for continual performance usage.