Originally posted by: Oxonium
I emailed WD and this is what I got:
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Discussion Thread
Response (Jason) 11/06/2002 01:38 PM
You can not tell the difference between the two drives. There is not difference in their performance. There complete specs can be view on our web site at:
http://www.wdc.com/products/products.asp?DriveID=27
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Customer (Oxonium) 11/06/2002 01:03 PM
I recently purchased a Caviar 7200rpm 120GB SE drive (1200JB). I have heard that there are two versions of this drive: one with 2 platters and one with 3 platters. I cannot find any information on your website about this. Is this true? If so, how can one differentiate between the drives (serial#, Rev#, LBA#, Manufacturing Date,...)? Is there a performance difference? Thank you.
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So I take this to mean that there
are both the 2- and 3-platter drives out there. I don't know if this guy is full of it or what but he clearly says that
there is no way to tell. Take it for what it's worth....