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?What (if any) performance or issues would happen if you used a Black WD1001FALS as the primary in the mirror instead of the Green WD10EADS ? 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?What (if any) performance or issues would happen... » Read More 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?What (if any) performance or issues would happen if you used a Black WD1001FALS as the primary in the mirror instead of the Green WD10EADS ? « Show Less
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In my opinion, it is best to buy two identical drives at the same time when setting up either Raid 0 or 1. Dell replaced 1 failed raptor in Raid 0 with two new raptors. Speed differences between the two drives can really hamper performance.
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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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I didn't have any problem, but I only used it once and it took about 30 to mirror the drive.
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I went to Best Buy to see the stripped down version (NP700Z5B-W01UB) and it looked great, BUT the OS configuration was clearly defective. The OS was installed on 50 GB of the 750 GB drive and the rest of the drive was partitioned as a temp partition! Maybe they had to delay/recall shipping because they fumbled the windows install. The wait is pretty frustrating.
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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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My subjective experience says yes. I gave the WD TV a try to compare it to the multiple WD TV Lives my family has solely for the purpose of playing content from directly attached USB drives. My experience thus far has been completely hassle free which is a vast improvement over the WD TV Live. I was worried when I attached the second USB drive to the WD TV and it didn't appear to be scanning for the content on the drive; I went to Videos just to see what was there and the content was already displayed (note that this drive had already been connected to a WD TV Live previously but it seemed to simply 'work' when I plugged it into the WD TV). My subjective experience says yes. I gave the WD TV a try to compare it to the multiple WD TV Lives my family has solely for the purpose of playing content from directly attached USB drives. My experience thus far has been completely hassle free which is a vast improvement over the WD TV Live. I was worried when I attached the second USB drive to the WD TV and it didn't appear to be scanning for the content on the drive; I went to Videos just to see what was there and the content was already displayed (note that this drive had already been connected to a WD TV Live previously but it seemed... » Read More My subjective experience says yes. I gave the WD TV a try to compare it to the multiple WD TV Lives my family has solely for the purpose of playing content from directly attached USB drives. My experience thus far has been completely hassle free which is a vast improvement over the WD TV Live. I was worried when I attached the second USB drive to the WD TV and it didn't appear to be scanning for the content on the drive; I went to Videos just to see what was there and the content was already displayed (note that this drive had already been connected to a WD TV Live previously but it seemed to simply 'work' when I plugged it into the WD TV). « Show Less
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WD Black is much higher performance and you can use it for the boot drive and have all 4 Terabytes show up unless your computer and your operating system are still in the stone age. However if your OS is 64 bit, then your computer is going to see all 4. The WD Blacks are all I've used for years and this newest one is the BEST and FASTEST OF ALL THE Wd's on the market today. You can use it for any purpose and you'll get the best performance over any others.
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I run a 32-bit Vista system. Formatted a 4tb drive GTP/NTFS, connected via eSata and it is both fast and reliable. USB does not work.
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That really feels like false advertising - and that is true of all the RAID mirror vendors - not just WD - really gives me a bad taste. If WD are gonna call it a Mirror 4TB then WD should include 2 X 4TB drives and not make us all look for the truth.
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I recently got this 250GB passport and it works perfectly with my Vista home premium. I didnt encounter any problem. It was just plug and play; as simple as that.
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This is "beyond" the black edition...it is an (older) enterprise-class hard drive meant for use in a RAID array and 24/7 operation, hence the name RE3 - Raid Edition 3. WD1002FBYS is essentially identical in all specs to the WD1001FALS (Caviar Black): Both have dual processors, 32MB cache, 7200 rpm rotational speed, and SATA/300 interface. The difference is that FBYS is marginally faster with a 12.1 ms average access speed, and it does not go into extended recalibration/diagnostic cycles as the FALS does, thus not causing a disk drop-out when used in a RAID array. As far as SATA/300 drives go, the only thing in the Western Digital lineup to beat its performance is the VelociRaptor line. This is "beyond" the black edition...it is an (older) enterprise-class hard drive meant for use in a RAID array and 24/7 operation, hence the name RE3 - Raid Edition 3. WD1002FBYS is essentially identical in all specs to the WD1001FALS (Caviar Black): Both have dual processors, 32MB cache, 7200 rpm rotational speed, and SATA/300 interface. The difference is that FBYS is marginally faster with a 12.1 ms average access speed, and it does not go into extended recalibration/diagnostic cycles as the FALS does, thus not causing a disk drop-out when used in a RAID array. As far as... » Read More This is "beyond" the black edition...it is an (older) enterprise-class hard drive meant for use in a RAID array and 24/7 operation, hence the name RE3 - Raid Edition 3. WD1002FBYS is essentially identical in all specs to the WD1001FALS (Caviar Black): Both have dual processors, 32MB cache, 7200 rpm rotational speed, and SATA/300 interface. The difference is that FBYS is marginally faster with a 12.1 ms average access speed, and it does not go into extended recalibration/diagnostic cycles as the FALS does, thus not causing a disk drop-out when used in a RAID array. As far as SATA/300 drives go, the only thing in the Western Digital lineup to beat its performance is the VelociRaptor line. « Show Less
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I got a WD Passport 160 GB USB 2.0 Drive today. - It does not work on my 4-year old Compaq Presario 900 laptop (XP home with SP2). Nothing happens. - So far no trouble running it on my newer HP Pavilion dv4000 (XP home with SP2).With all the comments about working or not working with laptops I keep my fingers crossed! Noticed that reviews earlier this year were far more negative than more recent one's. Did they improve the product??
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Different power profiles, speeds and cache sizes. Black drives are for desktops and run at higher speed 7200 rpm and up. good for desktops where apps need HD speed like games or editing movies. Green drives are the energy saving line and run at 5400 rpm and power down when not in use. typically good for desktops for storing data like photos, movies, music. Reds are a combo between the 2 and run around 5400 to 7200 rpm and don't power down are meant for network attached storage devices.
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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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Sorry, but I installed it on a Late version Vista machine, and it works wonderfully! Next June I intend to rebuild this computer, and run on the latest version of Windows. I want to add more RAM than the motherboard on this machine can support (6Gb). Having bought two of those Pioneer drives, I also installed one Pioneer Blu-ray reader/burner on a new custom built PC, where I run Windows 8. I have experienced only good to great performance with the Pioneer units.
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Yes green drives are only 5200 RPM much slower than 7200 just to save 10 watts of power. The WD black drive is the highest performing mechanical drive there is.
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I would use nothing BUT these drives in anything I built or upgraded. They're a bit pricier, and no one ever thinks about it, but the warranty on THESE hard drives, the WD Black series, is a full 5Y. VERY few other mfrs even offer a 5y warranty. And WD drives earn that warranty reputation, I haven't had a WD drive fail, EVER. In each case -- over a dozen -- they've become useless through increasing capacity, never mechanical/electronic failure. That is, I probably have an 80gig WD drive that's still functioning. It's just not worth plugging in and taking up a SATA channel when I can get that capacity on a freaking flash drive nowadays... Yes, they're that good. You can "save money" by buying something cheaper. But you'll pay in the long run with headaches from lost data, or time spent rebuilding your windows/software/os and tweaking it back to the way you had it. The HD is the soul of your machine. Everything else fails, you can practically swap a part back in and you're up and running. But the HD fails and you've got a multiday to longer term headache to get things back to "normal". And, for general purposes, they're among the best drives in performance terms, too. Tom's Hardware may rate something else marginally faster, but not by much. And not by enough to drag you away from WD Black. As the old saw goes, once you go Black, you'll never go back. :-D
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Sorry for the lag, Yes it works fine with vista. About the only gripe I have with the device is that the display isn't the best and the output to TV is the same. Just comparing to the Epson, but for ~1/2 the price it's worth overlooking, in my case. I use it for storage first and viewing second. The only place I delete is once the photos get on the computer. The little thing is tuff too, just got back from a 4K camping\ride and never had an issue. Actually everyone on the ride was very impressed with the device.