Product ReviewsWestern Digital RE4 2TB SATA2 7200RPM 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
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 Rating: Review Date: 08/30/13 |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/26/13 |
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Newegg's service was excellent! Ordered the drives on Monday (with free of charge UPS shipping) and they arrived the subsequent day. Each and every OEM drive was individually bubble-wrapped in its own box. Then the two boxes had been packed into a larger box with added padding. When these WD2003FYYS RE4 drives have been installed into a Raid 1 configuration they speedily degraded and became inaccessible. Due to the fact these were supposed to be "ultra-dependable" enterprise class drives, I assumed that I almost certainly ran into a software program-associated situation. So I updated my motherboard bios, and RAID and SATA drivers. That didn't resolve the challenge. In the end, I lastly downloaded the absolutely free Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics Utility (dlgdiagv504f.exe). When I ran the utility I received "read element failure" and "too quite a few errors found" hard drive error messages. Both drives were returned to Newegg for a refund. Newegg's RMA approach was swift and hassle-free. The Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics Utility runs in DOS mode from a floppy drive so it entirely bypasses your operating method. In addition to testing Western Digital challenging drives, it also presents the option of an erase function which writes O's across each and every sector of the hard disk. That tends to make it pretty close to impossible to later restore or study any files. On these huge 2 TB tough drives, the erase function took about 9 hours to securely & absolutely erase every drive just before they had been shipped back to Newegg.It's a shame that these WD2003FYYS drives weren't as trusted as I had hoped for. They were a large improvement over my old 500 gig three. SATA drives with a 16 meg cache. Their typical access speeds on my program, according to HDTune, had been about twice as quickly ƙ.eight vs. 19.eight) as my old drives.. |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/12/13 |
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-Lightning-rapidly reads in a RAID five array-A lot of reliability-emphasizing features -Value-Power Consumption against other 2TB drives-Cost. I purchased three of these drives for a RAID 5 array in a property server box (Gigabyte EX38-DS4 motherboard, ICH9R,) and nearly a month later they're nevertheless rocking. Probably a small overkill, but for a long-term storage resolution I'd gladly spend a premium for a drive with a longer life expectancy. Also reads are stupidly-fast, and writes aren't hampered also substantially by the ICH9R controller--and I'm virtually positive gigabit ethernet is the bottleneck in Server-to-SSD-equipped-Pc transfers now. All three drives arrived functioning, as opposed to these received by others. |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/23/13 |
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Great performance, 5 year warranty from WD 1 of my 2 drives showed up with negative sectors. NewEgg was hassle free of charge with sending a replacement even though. Expense me บ for a UPS shipping label to send back. Not too substantially to ask for. I extremely advise using Western Digital's Information Life Guard diagnostic utility to perform a sector and Intelligent test before employing the drives! A single of my drives had terrible sectors on it. |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/07/13 |
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Purchased two of these to run in Raid for Synology DS209 NAS. They've been running almost 24ǝ for a year now with no troubles. Really incredibly fast drives. Price |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/05/13 |
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Rapid, trusted, effortless, quiet Somewhat pricey Added four of these to every of two household servers, and four much more to a workstation. Had one fail proper away, and Newegg replaced it correct away. Otherwise absolutely reputable, quiet, and really fast. I move a LOT of data on these things, and have been extremely content with how they have performed. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/08/13 |
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Its a enterprise disk. Its WD. Quite substantial storage, supported by majority of RAID card vendors, 5 yr warranty. Crazy rapid off Adaptec 5805 in RAID5. Bought three for RAID5. Hurts the wallet. Making use of Openfiler 2.three with 3 of these on an Adaptec 5805 in RAID5 . Turns into three.6TB usable :-/ Crazy fast. Carved into numerous LUNs. I'll have handful of VMs running on a single LUN, drag and drop from data LUN and nonetheless see 114Mb/s transfers to my desktop. Can't wait for them to come down in cost so migrate it into RAID 50.To the preceding poster "John." I confident hope you have a backup solution for your 4TB RAID0...thats a lot of data to shed when 1 dies on you. Doesn't matter which brand or consumer/enterprise form. These are hard drives people...not a question if it will fail. Its a query of when. Make positive when upgrading your storage your budgeting for a backup as effectively. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/14/13 |
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- - Incredibly unacceptable. I shelled out further money for the reliability of these Enterprise class drives but they had been not up to par. Ordered two drives, 1 week apart. 1st drive began to get errors inside 1 week and so did the 2nd drive. RMAed the 1st drive for replacement and will do the exact same for the 2nd drive when the replacement drive get right here. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/13/13 |
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Quick and so far, trusted Pricey, slow spin-up I have 5 of these setup w/ RAID5.I have not had any heat difficulties. In my case they remain mid 40's with heavy use - that is in a supermicro five bay enclosure with a single 92mm fan at a quiet speed. With no airflow they will promptly get into the mid 50's but 4 platter 7,200 rpm drives constantly require decent airflow. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/18/13 |
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10 drives and counting... No troubles. Rapidly, reliable, and perform well with the RAID controller. Costly compared to the customer versions. Advise these for critical information storage applications. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/02/13 |
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Fantastic drive when it operates. Rapid access instances big cache. Has capacity to set TDLR tables as this is "RE" Raid Edition and supposedly enterprise grade HD. Four brand new HD went terrible inside two weeks after install into server. I replaced them by way of the WD sophisticated RMA. Out of the four replacements one particular was negative and I had to RMA once again. Out of curiosity I looked at the warranty expiration on WD website and to my shock I found out that WD switches the original 5 years warranty to 90 days warranty on the replacement. So I wrote a letter to them. It's under. Personally I believe that it's now right to place out defective product and then scam you out of the warranty. What I wrote to WD:Please explain to me how RMA'd HD with just about intact five year warranty becomes a single with 90 days warranty? Mind you this was brand new HD that went undesirable within two weeks of obtain that was RMAd with yet another defective "reconditioned" HD which was DOA and now I am acquiring out that I only have 90 days warranty on the replacement of the replacement. The icing on this cake is the little detail that this is supposedly the "enterprise" "industrial" Raid Edition that is advertised as "heavy duty" that costs three times additional that "consumer" grade HD but which is only diverse in the capability to set TDLR tables in firmware in order for you to make additional income. Inside the last six months I had to RMA six "enterprise" (FYYS) HD's that I paid 趿 a pop, two Caviar Black (FASS) HD's that I paid 赔 a pop, and a single "green" (EADS) HD. All of the HD's went undesirable either instantly or inside couple of weeks of buy except for the "green" What is going on with your firm |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/05/13 |
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Major, fast, no issues. Safely packaged. Expensive. Also big for a bios boot drive. Uefi Should work though. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/07/13 |
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Fast difficult drive.Quite steady.Tons of space. none If you can afford it this is a great really hard drive. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/21/13 |
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-- -- I had a WD 1TB Black Caviar RE3 that died on me out of the blue. Now I shelled out extra funds for the Enterprise and it begins providing me raw read errors, write errors, and low spin up time (using Disk Checkup V3.) in significantly less than 2 weeks. I'm RMAing for a replacement and also buying the yet another 1. I want lots of HDD space at all time and this is frustrating... |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/06/13 |
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This is a correction to my post beneath.Right after having another reconditioned replacement sent by WD go negative I termed WD and got the following facts that may well assist.The RMA replacements are "reconditioned" and in my expertise most most likely not very thoroughly checked by WD. In my experience all the replacement drives did spin up and worked, nevertheless I was acquiring errors on the RAID array. Following checking with HD Tune all had fairly few terrible sectors.Now with that stated, WD will replace the faulty RMAs and will spend for shipping. You have to get in touch with to get the no cost shipping label.Secondary, and a lot more importantly, you can get back the 5 year warranty if you send WD copy of your invoice. So it is appropriate that you will have 90 days warranty on the replacement, but if you send assistance e-mail with the invoice they will enter the original warranty in their records. Terrible high quality handle on HDs that ought to be the best priority for WD being Raid Edition and Enterprise grade. |
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Rating: Review Date: 11/20/12 |
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2TB Enterprise Bad Sectors on initial powerup |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/14/12 |
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Amazingly quickly, trustworthy, tough (built like a tank). Huge capacity. none? (a little high-priced) I'm a club DJ, so I wanted a drive that was constructed like a tank & could stand up to the rigors & rough nature of my job. This drive has lived up to all my expectations (and then some).NOTE: I'm making use of this drive in an external enclosure, so I wanted the reliability of an enterprise-class drive, eSATA speeds, and a fan to hold it cool. I've utilised it to DJ since May, and have never had a single problem with the drive (and think me, with me getting a DJ, it gets "rode tricky and place away wet." It's stood up to all the "abuse" & expectancies of this club DJ. I have put this drive in a Thermaltake Max4 Active Cooling enclosure, and it functions good! NOTE: |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/19/12 |
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Extremely quick information tranfer in RAID config; only, RAID makes it crash :( Exactly where to begin; this drive would most probably operate fine as a single drive and is probably no much less trusted than any other low end SATA drive from Seagate or Hitachi. To complain about possessing a DOA or two premature failures in low finish SATA drive is just ignorant, if its reliability you seek get SCSI or SAS. Even so, if you program on employing this drive in a RAID atmosphere you will hate your life. All important RAID/SAN subsystem manufactures already have identified this RE4 2TB as non-team player and will inform you not to use this drive in their systems. Our engineers spent two months in the lab attempting to figure out why our SAN arrays had been crashing, timing out and getting a number of drives drop out corrupting the complete volumes and destroying data. Well it turns out that these drives have critical complications with RAID; as of yet WD has not resolved the issue. I give this drive a single star since we have been led to believe this drive is intended for RAID and that’s exactly exactly where it fails to provide The systems we personally proved the drive was malfunctioning in had been an Areca 8060-SAS and an Enhance RS16-SS though i know there are several other individuals. Notably, each of these devices function flawlessly with Seagate ES or AS and Hitachi Ultrastar. Both of these devices use entirely diverse controllers and codebase so it’s incredibly clear that WD is to blame right here. IMHO Seagate and Hitachi are far from ideal but we get what we’re paying for (which is not significantly) but with WD we get worthless chunks of metal in the case of the RE4 2TB. This has genuinely damaged their credibility in my opinion because this is way worse than a DOA or early failure which all SATA drives have complications with. This is just pure negligence on the behalf of WD and they will need to have their small hand slapped; you do that by how you spend your difficult earned dollars. Don't obtain this worthless drive if your going to use RAID and you take your data seriously. |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/11/12 |
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Have a number of of these running on a nas and have been fairly trusted so far, about 6 months. 1 of two drives ordered came DOA. A little high on value. Crazy in that I've ordered two diverse drives from NE in two orders and both orders had 1 DOA drive. What are the chances of that?? May well try it once again to see if I can get a third order with a bad drive. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/28/12 |
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Incredibly high performance drives. Operates really effectively when there is no intervention with the drive. When hot swapping any 1 drive from the array on the identical channel, all drives on the channel will cycle in a way that appears as if all drives had been just inserted. This causes ALL DRIVES ON THE CHANNEL TO FAIL. This will most likely guarantee a failed raid array. This was verified following thorough testing, and lastly to see that any random drive will function perfectly fine, except for these drives. I have also noticed this concern in an additional setup making use of RE3 ƑTB) drives. This leads me to believe that this line of RAID capable drives have some significant RAID support concerns. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/21/12 |
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Fantastic when operating Ordered 7 drives, 4 of which failed promptly. I don't know if this is Newegg's shipping/handling or WD quality, but it is unacceptable. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/08/12 |
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Been operating this drive 24ǝ for the final 6 weeks, non-raid, with no complications. For the last five years I've been utilizing Seagate NS drives, their enterprise class models, without having issue. But when it came time to add a lot more space, not only did they not have any 2tb enterprise drives but all of their other models were acquiring consistently undesirable reviews here with high failure rates. (They ought to never ever have purchased Maxtor.) So following reading a lot of fantastic things right here about WD, I decided to attempt a single out; and so far I'm quite pleased. This drive is quiet and more quickly by far than all my Seagates, I'll be choosing up one more today. Copies four.5gb in about 2-3min. None so far, despite the fact that the cost point is a lot as well high IMO compared to workstation class drives. Their MTBF superior be accurate for that value! I'm sorry to hear about the other user's issues with their RAID setups, I've read that firmware updates generally repair difficulties like that and none stated they tried. Took about 8 hours to format NTFS w/ 64k clusters. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/08/12 |
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None as far as I can tell 4 drives bought, 2 DOA, 1 broke the power pin guide off in the server Will in no way order from newegg again! 跌 drive used in a Dell R710 with a drive tray and they claim the harm on the power pin guide was simply because of installation error. Inserted the drive, built the raid, and removed 1 to test. Had to get rid of the SATA board out of the server to get the guide out, but it's my fault. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/15/12 |
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Stable in Raid1, relatively quiet and rapidly. None so far I've had two of these in a software program Raid1 for about a year now and they have been flawless in opperation. I Have none of the temperature concerns other individuals have reported here but I have hard drive coolers on them, lots of space among them and the case they are in moves additional air than a ceiling fan. Drives opperate around 34F at complete tilt. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/08/12 |
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Huge capacity, quiet operation Cost I bought two of these to replace my two 750 GB RE2 drives. They are a bit quieter, and appear snappier. As extended as they last a couple of years error cost-free I'll be pleased. I've heard men and women complaing about NewEgg packing, but these came protected rather effectively. |
Incredibly quiet Bought 4 drives for use in a Windows Storage Server 2008 box. LOTS of space, fans and air flow in the huge case. Inside 36 hours 1 drive had a Smart failure saying the drive overheated. I virtually had to wear heat resistant gloves to remove the drive from the server. The Intelligent monitor showed the drive was running at 61 degrees celcius which is 142 degrees F!!! That is very hot for a drive that describes itself as "cool drive operation".RMA currently in the works with WD. Hope the replacement runs cool. The other 3 drives are showing as being 51C which is 124F. I still believe that is HOT.The WD internet site says the operating variety of this drive is up to 55C. It will probably not be long ahead of the other 3 drives overheat and fail.