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   #4. Posted at 03:14 PM on Jul 17th 2007 Edit   Reply
Spotpuff
To this date I haven't seen a definitive answer on the question of whether or not you can use these drives in single drive configuration without problems.

Everyone is like: "Well, it's probably ok, but it could be a bad idea."

Grand.
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#4, Why would it be a bad idea? It's not like the drive is going...  :  ew  (#5)  «
#5, Due to the lack of error checking and the whole "let the ...  :  Spotpuff  (#6)  «
#6, I don't think you understand how this works.. The driv...  :  adisor19  (#7)  «
#7, So what happens if the drive can't recover from the...  :  Spotpuff  (#12)  «
#12, Hello? Anyone? See, that's the big question I had...  :  Spotpuff  (#17)  «
#17, The drives are not aware of other drives and ...  :  ew  (#19)  «
#6, you can turn TLER off  :  Cript  (#9)  «
#9, Good to know; I assume WD offers a tool for it?  :  Spotpuff  (#11)  «

   #18. Posted at 09:44 AM on Jul 18th 2007 Edit   Reply
AbRASiON
Just page me when ANY 750gb drive is under 149$ US, that second, I'll buy 5..
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   #1. Posted at 01:34 PM on Jul 17th 2007 Edit   Reply
adisor19
Heh, if this is more expensive then the 750GB Seagate, guess for which one i'll go ? :)

Adi
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#1, Than.  :  Anomymous Gerbil  (#16)  «

   #15. Posted at 09:34 PM on Jul 17th 2007, Edited at 09:35 PM on Jul 17th 2007 Edit   Reply
Cript
#11, Yep, you can google for wdtler.zip and find a link for it in a SR thread, or email them directly for the files.
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   #13. Posted at 06:56 PM on Jul 17th 2007 Edit   Reply
humannn
So if my math is correct, 1.2 million hours between failure is the equivalent of using the drive 24 hours a day for 136.9 years
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#13, Not really. It simply means that if you had, say, 1000 of th...  :  Entroper  (#14)  «

   #10. Posted at 05:15 PM on Jul 17th 2007 Edit   Reply
pdjblum
How about an update of the raptor with sata2 transfer rates and 32mb cache? Really hoping for a refresh soon.
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   #3. Posted at 03:11 PM on Jul 17th 2007 Edit   Reply
maroon1
#1, But according to the review in techreport, it performs better than 750GB Seagate
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#3, I'm a cheap bastard.. it the $$ difference is ridiculous, i'...  :  adisor19  (#8)  «

   #2. Posted at 01:56 PM on Jul 17th 2007 Edit   Reply
flip-mode
I love WD's RE drives.
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