opentoe Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Anyone use these drives? They are only about $110 compared to the WD Black which is around $175. I would love to continue to keep getting the WD Black series, but seeing there is more companies coming out with the same specs I don't think WD should keep their prices so high anymore. Quote Link to comment
BobPhoenix Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 I don't have that exact model mine is this and currently is my parity drive. Quote Link to comment
Chuck Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 This appears to be a new model, 7200 rpm, NOT advanced format disk. At the current $99 price I am going to order one to use for parity drive. Quote Link to comment
aiden Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 7K3000 is a newer model of their 2TB drive. Different model means it doesn't have the established track record of the 7K2000 models, so don't assume it does. The big difference I see is the 64MB cache and SATA 6. Quote Link to comment
BRiT Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 The platter density may differ as well since they have a 7K3000 3TB drive listed as well. Typically all the drives in the family have the same platter density and only differ in the number of platters. Quote Link to comment
opentoe Posted February 4, 2011 Author Share Posted February 4, 2011 Next pay check I'm going to get one of these and try it out. I already ordered a WD Black drive 2TB to be my new parity drive. I'm slowly upgrading/adding 2TB drives to replace my 1TB sizes. Quote Link to comment
opentoe Posted February 19, 2011 Author Share Posted February 19, 2011 I never bought one of these...had to spend money on something else. I'm still interested as they are only $119 from Amazon. Not bad compared to WD $179. The Hitachi only have 32MB cache, so that will decrease performance a little for me. Here is my problem. I have 7 WD Black drives. All have 64MB cache. If I were to buy/install an Hitachi 7200 32MB cache drive would that decrease my performance over the entire array just because of that one drive? Quote Link to comment
BRiT Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Depends if you use it for Parity or not. Quote Link to comment
opentoe Posted February 21, 2011 Author Share Posted February 21, 2011 Right now my parity drive is a brand new 2TB WD Black drive. Wasted space right now since my array is all 1TB drives, but I do plan on throwing some 2TB drives in there. I did find out the 7K3000 drives do have 64MB cache onboard. Hopefully these will keep up with what I'm use to. Quote Link to comment
Vibe Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 I have been using WD Black drives and would like to make the jump to 2TB - but OUCH! For the price of a WD 2TB Black one could purchase a 7K3000 (Currently on sale at Newegg for $109.00 + Free shipping) and a WD Ears or Hitachi 5K3000 (also on sale). Has anyone had experience with how the 7K3000 performs as a parity drive? Quote Link to comment
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.