Dunno.
I have a similar WD 320GB SATA drive in my home computer...
...and it works perfectly. I was thinking it might be the same drive, but it's not.
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Dunno.
I have a similar WD 320GB SATA drive in my home computer...
...and it works perfectly. I was thinking it might be the same drive, but it's not.
Maybe if I buy Tiger, I will be able to placate the part of my brain that keeps whispering to me that I could afford a new iBook.
I'm not sure what that means. I've also not used a WD drive in years. I had a series of them fail on me at one point and I jumped over to the Seagate Barracuda line and I've never looked back.
I was thinking it might be the same drive, but it's not.
RE vs. SE? WTF?
I jumped over to the Seagate Barracuda line and I've never looked back.
It's not a Barracuda, but this Seagate is bigger with roughly the same cost per gig as the WD drive.
I have WD (and Maxtor and Seagate) at home and work and they have worked great. Actually, I haven't had a hard drive fail in a really long time. I have 2.5GB drives that still work but I just don't have a use for anymore.
I know there's freeware out there that will let you create a PDF from a Word doc. Is there anything that goes in reverse? Approximately three thousand of the source documents for my new project are PDFs, and my life would be a lot easier if they were editable.
A TLER disk is meant to be used in a RAID system.
Explaination: [link]
WDC's official line: [link]
Basically, the TLER is stupider and less robust about error recovery, since it assumes that the RAID controller will be handling that task.
RE vs. SE? WTF?
I believe SE is a desktop line and RE is a server line and then there is SE16 for a 16 megabyte buffer as opposed to a 8 MB buffer.
Basically, the TLER is stupider and less robust about error recovery, since it assumes that the RAID controller will be handling that task.
Thanks Tom. I want to use the drive for backup, so it seems to be a bad choice. Looks like the 400GB Seagate is a better deal all around.
tommy, I emailed you.