You need to know what you're doing to take full advantage of the drive. Only 40mb/s write speed in IDE mode.Ĭons: 1. I have Win7 圆4 and achieve Sustained write speed of 80mb/s with AHCI enabled over my Gbit network. I know it's slow but your patience will be rewarded.
#Western digital wd10eads 11m2b3 how to#
You must know how to take advantage of the drive.Ģ. Pros: This drive is fast, and dead silent. Move the start of your first partition to block 64, and it makes all the difference in the world. As a result, your partitions will start on 63-sector boundaries. The thing is, the cylinders are faked, and they're reported as being 63 sectors. The problem is that fdisk starts partitions on "cylinder" boundaries. Make sure that it is an integer multiple of 8. Once the partition is created, type 'x' to get into expert mode, then use the 'b' command to move the starting sector of the partition. To use fdisk, create a primary partition like normal. WD claims that Linux is "unaffected", but this is false, since many critical Linux tools like fdisk do not do the right thing by default. Windows 7 reportedly does the right thing, while Windows XP does not.
Overall Review: You really need to know what you're doing if you're going to use these drives with Linux. They also survived very heavy initial utilization when I was setting them up and copying on large files (Time Machine backups).Ĭons: If you don't know what you're doing, you can get lousy write performance (a factor of 3.3 performance drop across the board, according to an article on OSNews). SMART data reports good health for both drives. I haven't had them a long time, so I can't tell you how reliable they will ultimately be, but here's what I know: They're been running continuously ever since I got them. It's a 5400RPM drive, so that's what you get, but the performance of my RAID1 array is more than acceptable. Pros: Quiet, power-efficient, good price.
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