Hi!

 

I've just bought some WD RE4 Enterprise SATA 2TB MAESTRO WD2003FYYS. I've read that these HDDs are put "through extended burn-in testing with thermal cycling to ensure reliable operation". So, do you think that these HDDS need Preclear?

 

Thanks in advance.

Personally, I would preclear any new disk.  No matter how perfect it may be when it leaves the factory, who knows what happened to it between that time and the time it reached your door.  Preclear now and save yourself the hassle of dealing with a defective drive later.

Personally, I would preclear any new disk.  No matter how perfect it may be when it leaves the factory, who knows what happened to it between that time and the time it reached your door.  Preclear now and save yourself the hassle of dealing with a defective drive later.

 

Thanks, I'll preclear one cicle each one.

Hi!

 

I've just bought some WD RE4 Enterprise SATA 2TB MAESTRO WD2003FYYS. I've read that these HDDs are put "through extended burn-in testing with thermal cycling to ensure reliable operation". So, do you think that these HDDS need Preclear?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

If I'm just installing one drive, I install it without pre-clearing. Some of those enterprise drives come with output reports on the drives status, but they are expensive.

 

 

Hi!

 

I've just bought some WD RE4 Enterprise SATA 2TB MAESTRO WD2003FYYS. I've read that these HDDs are put "through extended burn-in testing with thermal cycling to ensure reliable operation". So, do you think that these HDDS need Preclear?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

If I'm just installing one drive, I install it without pre-clearing. Some of those enterprise drives come with output reports on the drives status, but they are expensive.

 

 

 

 

Thanks, but I'm building a 21x2TB server for my BD's (I've already 12 full), so I'll pre-clear all the HDDs. They are expensive, but here in Spain I'm buying them for the same price of the WD20EARS or HD204UI 

 

the only drive I wold not preclear is an SSD.. but that's me.

I must be more paranoid than you.

I pre-cleared my flash cache drive.

Just because it is solid state does not mean it cannot fail.

Just because they tested it does not mean it actually works perfectly.

 

FWIW I used to sit in on flash technology reviews of microcontrollers with embedded flash.

I have also seen some flash failures where the exact addressing flow meant the difference between correct data and incorrect data.

 

Just because you are paranoid doesnt mean they are not out to get you.