Anyone here have one of the WD SE drives?

PreDatoR · Post by **PreDatoR** » Tue Jul 16, 2002 1:01 am

Just got a WD 120 Gig SE drive with the 8 megs of cache today. Curious what your getting in Sandra and HD Tach my scores are below. This drive is nice... Don't notice any difference between it and the Raid 0 i was using before.

Busby · Post by **Busby** » Tue Jul 16, 2002 10:37 am

HD Tach seems about right for a single drive. The sequential speeds staying at a solid rate, not going up and down is what the 8MB of cache does, if I am correct.

succubiss · Post by **succubiss** » Wed Jul 17, 2002 12:35 pm

Hey i picked up a 120GB JB also... did a fresh install, but not currently using it.

my old setup was 2 30.7GB 5400/ata66 on a Raid0, which was plenty fast, but I'm running out of room. Dont have time to ghost over my partitions though. I'll do that one of these days.

PreDatoR · Post by **PreDatoR** » Wed Jul 17, 2002 7:19 pm

The yare nice drives.. damn fast for a single ATA100 drive... that 8megs cache really helps them out... I wonder why more manufacturer's don't start using a lil more cache on their drives...

Buzz · Post by **Buzz** » Thu Jul 18, 2002 4:27 am

I have the 800JB. Havent done a sandra or hdtach test, but i know its a lot faster. Tasks goes much quicker... like, setting user security on folders with lots of files and copying between drives finishes way quicker than my old 18GB

I'm happy