manufacturers dont simply sell bad stocks.
my quantum bigfoot still serves me good after 8yrs, while dual 80gb maxtor still healthy after serving near 4yrs.

and since you guys are comparing heat, it should be best to add info on which particular model you are referring with. for 80Gb WD alone, theres few models ie single/multi platters. of course, multi platter produce more heat.

This post has been edited by e-jump: Mar 28 2007, 06:53 AM

well, since you didnt encounter bad sectors, that means the reallocation sector works perfectly, although its not that good for a new drive to have 20% reallocations.
*i am not sure if all production drive will have perfect 100 relo free.
as for start/stop count, im not sure what it means by "Number of start/stop cycles of spindle"
http://smartlinux.sourceforge.net/smart/attributes.php


LOL yeah, my quantum 4gb is friggin reliable, but its only support PIO mode.
*its a 5" drive LULz

Ask yorself, do you think its worth the bargain?
BTW, theres a lot of reasons can cause reallocations.




Bcoz WD doesnt produce SCSI for enterprise segment?

thats partly true.
It depends on the technology the disk using, large capacity on single platter or multi platters.
usually the more platter it uses, more heat.
*how to know? the easiest way is compare the thickness. the harder way, identify it by model code

All the health status of whatever drive are read thru SMART DRM logs of the harddisk itself. Accurate or not, that depends on SMART Drive SelfTest (DST) activities and monitoring.
However it is always a good thing to monitor all the smart attribute status of your drives and aware if any of the attribute tripped the threshold value

well, basically drives with multi platters = hot = noise
thats because platters sit close to each other causing heat, while lots of head causing noise.
however the advantage of multi platter drives is that if 1 head/platter fails, other still works, while single platter... gone =__=.
about the sqeaking noise, not sure bout that, maybe servo been calibrated like that?

did you set your bios SATA to AHCI mode?
UDmamode-5 is only 100MB/s

doh
AHCI = advance host controller interface
you can go up to udma-7

and check the SMART attribute on the drives via HDtune/speedfan for error log counters

not sure if your lanparty in on ich8 or 9, but if youre lucky, XP SP2 still bootable/recognize ich8 without driver installation (if i remember correctly)
try boot up in AHCI

oh shi!! its vista

This post has been edited by e-jump: Feb 13 2008, 07:12 AM

AHCI is the mode that supports NCQ
try force installing the chipset drivers while still in IDE mode
not sure success rate, but worth the try

depends on what raid mode you chose

RAID0 for performance
RAID1 and 5 for safety
RAID1+0 for best of both world