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A Hybrid drive is only has a certain amount of fast storage (cache) for commonly accessed files. This means that the files within the 8GB or so of cache are accessed at SSD speeds, while the rest are accessed at standard HDD speeds.
On the other hand the Black drive has different...
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I would prefer to setup a RAID rather than having JBOD setup in the NAS.
That's because RAID 1 provides fault tolerance from disk errors and failure of all but one of the drives. Increased read performance occurs when using a multi-threaded operating system that supports split seeks...
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Yes, the RAM stick you've picked up should work with the motherboard. However, unless you're willing to overclock it you may not be able to get it to run at 1600 Mhz. The board should automatically select the fastest memory speed that it supports based on the profiles built in to the...
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I agree with @LTC8K6 - the best option is to run a test with the manufacturers tool. For instance, if your drive is a WD you can download and use Data Lifeguard Diagnostics:
http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=z4ZnSH
Other than that, you can give chkdsk a try too - just click...
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These two memory types are completely incompatible with each other - not only the voltages mentioned by VirtualLarry, but the timings and signaling is different.
Basically speaking DDR3 is faster then DDR2, and the power differences are barely measurable along with the real-world...
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These are pretty good temps for a hard drive - basically speaking the ideal for a HDD between is 30-40 C.
You can take a look at the spec sheet of the drive as well - the temps there are between 5-55C/0-60C while operational and -40 to 70 when not, like @Coup27 wrote.
Hope this...
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No, you don't have to use the same SATA ports of the motherboard when you reconnect the drives.
The only thing I will recommend is to go in BIOS and make sure that the boot order is right and the PC will start from the OS drive.
Hope this helps.
Cheers! :)
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The WD Black is a very good drive but it was designed mostly for gaming and other demanding apps. For a RAID – I would suggest you to check some drives that were specifically designed for RAID environment, and have the RAID specific built-in features (like TLER – helps...
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Age is something that doesn't always matter - I have drives that I still use after 10 years. So for the two Green drives you have - you can still use them as a backup, but first I would suggest to run a test to check what their health is with Data Lifeguard Diagnostics as well...
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Reallocated Sector Count in SMART test is quite important as an indicator of bad sectors. Reallocated sector basically means that your hard drive found a bad sector, and swapped it with a 'reserve pool' of sectors. After this swap, the medium should be free of bad sectors to the...
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Although the model number is the same (in this case WD30EZRX) the thing that makes the drives different is the rest of the model number. Like @RecoveryForce said:
In other words, the drives model doesnt mean that the HDD will be perfectly identical - the model is for a build of...
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This VelociRaptor model in particular doesn't come with a heat sink IcePack frame.
As for the AF, this is a technology that optimizes the data structure on the hard drive, including increasing the physical sector size from 512 bytes to a more efficient 4096 byte (4K) sector size. For...
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NAS stands for Network Attached Storage and it's used to share data between multiple computers across a common network. The link provided by Ken g6 is an useful one if you want to learn more about this storage device.
As for the WD Red, it is the NAS/RAID class drive from the...
Yes, I'm a WD rep, but I can't get an access to my signature since I need to have 25 posts, and I forgot to put it in my post as well.
As for firmware, this tool works on the listed models and it may work on similar models as well. If this model doesnt support the WDIDLE tool then most...
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WD Green drives are not 7200 RPM, but Intellipower instead which is a balance between spin speed, transfer rate, and caching algorithms that deliver both power savings and solid performance. That means if your application requires mostly sequential read/writes, then the drive will...
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