- Apr 9, 2013
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Hi,
Just celebrating here....
As I have posted elsewhere, to me, SDD not mature technology yet, and so, I am waiting until I feel it is to move up.
In the meantime, I noticed what my fav, classy pundit here chose for storage, a WD caviar Black, in his case 1TB.
So cause I have uber respect for him, I went to look for a Caviar blk with uber cache on ebay. Found one I felt was The One... Small private vendor in Chicago, with 100% feedback I had a good feeling about.
I don't need even 250GBs, but this is a WD5002AALX caviar Blk made on March 18 of 2012. 32 cache!!!!!! I never had more than 16.
She, it turned out to be a she, was asking $50 or best offer. There already was an offer. I offered $46....she accepted. Free shipping by the way.
Now, there were almost 350 reviews on Newegg, mostly good, but some really creepy: it was DOA, it died in 11 minutes; it had a gazllion bad sectors; it is so noisy I wanna blow my brains out.
So, it arrived just earlier. I removed the Seagate I was replacing, popped it in (with the big Optis you just unhook, pull the nylon caddy, remove the old drive, insert new drive, slide the caddy into the bay and hook the drive up).
I immediately did online SMART diagnostics and it came up excellent. I may not even run WD diagnostics but I have it.
I then formatted (cause there was a little sumthin left on it tho she said it had been wiped), cloned my other WD to it, configured Easy BCD, booted into it and, OMG it is like lightening!!! I can not believe a platter drive could be this fast!!!!
And, the box is still open and it is quiet like a mouse!!!!
I am soooooooo happy.:biggrin:
See how a very special member here can influence and contribute, even indirectly????:wub:
Thank U, Ketchup 79!!!!
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Just celebrating here....
As I have posted elsewhere, to me, SDD not mature technology yet, and so, I am waiting until I feel it is to move up.
In the meantime, I noticed what my fav, classy pundit here chose for storage, a WD caviar Black, in his case 1TB.
So cause I have uber respect for him, I went to look for a Caviar blk with uber cache on ebay. Found one I felt was The One... Small private vendor in Chicago, with 100% feedback I had a good feeling about.
I don't need even 250GBs, but this is a WD5002AALX caviar Blk made on March 18 of 2012. 32 cache!!!!!! I never had more than 16.
She, it turned out to be a she, was asking $50 or best offer. There already was an offer. I offered $46....she accepted. Free shipping by the way.
Now, there were almost 350 reviews on Newegg, mostly good, but some really creepy: it was DOA, it died in 11 minutes; it had a gazllion bad sectors; it is so noisy I wanna blow my brains out.
So, it arrived just earlier. I removed the Seagate I was replacing, popped it in (with the big Optis you just unhook, pull the nylon caddy, remove the old drive, insert new drive, slide the caddy into the bay and hook the drive up).
I immediately did online SMART diagnostics and it came up excellent. I may not even run WD diagnostics but I have it.
I then formatted (cause there was a little sumthin left on it tho she said it had been wiped), cloned my other WD to it, configured Easy BCD, booted into it and, OMG it is like lightening!!! I can not believe a platter drive could be this fast!!!!
And, the box is still open and it is quiet like a mouse!!!!
I am soooooooo happy.:biggrin:
See how a very special member here can influence and contribute, even indirectly????:wub:
Thank U, Ketchup 79!!!!
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