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Congrats man! That's a great free upgrade! Too bad RMAing a 74GB won't get you a 150GB, eh? The new "AA" drives are better indeed. They also run a little cooler.
I replaced all my WD5000KS drives with WD5000AAKS pieces and the sustained write rate is 60-70MB/s!
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Oct 22nd, 2007 10:25 AM #1Deal Addict
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RMA'd my 36gb raptor, getting a 74gb! Woohoo!
RMA'd my WD 36gb raptor. The status went to Delayed for around a week and a half which I was pretty bummed about since it was my main system drive.
Friday night, I get an automated email saying it's shipped.. check the model number.. WOOHOO! Getting a 74gb raptor.
So if any of you have failing raptors, it's worth it to RMA!
Also RMA'd my WD5000YS - 500gb raid edition - and got the newer WD5000AAYS which has 3 platters instead of 4. Seeing about 10mb/sec more read speeds!!
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Oct 22nd, 2007 10:51 AM #2Deal Fanatic
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Oct 22nd, 2007 11:21 AM #3Deal Addict
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that's nothing compared to the solid state drives. 800Mb/sec for reading and 600Mb/sec for writing
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Oct 22nd, 2007 12:55 PM #4Deal Addict
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Nice! Yeah - gotta love newer revisions with fewer platters! I'd imagine they'll be running cooler too!
Just did some reading on the raptor, too bad I got the WD740GD.. the WD740ADFD has double the cache (16mb) and native sata instead of a PATA->SATA bridge. Oh well, can't complain! Reply With Quote
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show me the money! nuff said!
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Oct 22nd, 2007 02:08 PM #6Deal Fanatic
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Yeah I wanna see too. If SSD drives are so great, then why isn't the retail flooded with at least a single model? Originally Posted by tdotcbc84
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.. because SSD is super expensive right now.. will be many years before it can compete to magnetic media for price/capacity
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wicked deal on the RMA.
I once RMA'd a 200GB hdd and got a 250GB back. But that doesn't compare to yours :P Reply With Quote
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Oct 22nd, 2007 03:40 PM #9Deal Addict
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Congrats! Why did you RMA?
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Lucky!
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Oct 22nd, 2007 04:48 PM #11Deal Fanatic
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This happens all the time, With electronics they say it if it dies within the warrenty range tey will replce with the same product or one with similar value. I guess they don't make the 36gb anymore and the 74gb is worth the same price.
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Oct 22nd, 2007 05:46 PM #12Deal Addict
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I RMA'd it because I thought it was failing, but later turned out it was the other drive in my PC! So I RMA'd that one as well. Originally Posted by onecoolloser
RMA'd my raid drive because thought it was failing lol - but I think it was a SATA cable in the end!
oh well.
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Oct 22nd, 2007 05:55 PM #13Deal Fanatic
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LOL and just how did you determine that the drive "was in the process of failing"?
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my 320gb a while ago died on me... they ship it in a month later with a 500GB Raid edition...
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The RAID drive? Because the port it was on in linux started spewing out a bunch of errors and the array was constantly getting rebuilt. Originally Posted by Oversized Rooster
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