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WD RE4 2 TB Enterprise Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, SATA II, 64 MB Cache (WD2003FYYS) (Old Model)
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Digital Storage Capacity | 2000 GB |
Hard Disk Interface | Serial ATA-600 |
Connectivity Technology | SATA |
Brand | Western Digital |
Special Feature | Portable |
Hard Disk Form Factor | 3.5 Inches |
Hard Disk Description | Raid |
Compatible Devices | Desktop |
Installation Type | Internal Hard Drive |
Color | Black |
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Storage Capacity | 4.6 | 3.6 | 4.5 | — | 4.5 | 4.4 |
Easy to install | 4.5 | — | 4.6 | — | 4.6 | 4.5 |
Value for money | 4.1 | 3.2 | — | — | 4.2 | 4.0 |
Noise level | 4.1 | 3.3 | 4.4 | — | 4.1 | — |
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storage capacity | 2000 GB | 2000 GB | 2000 GB | 2000 GB | 4 TB | 2 TB |
hardware interface | sata 3 0 gb | sata 3 0 gb, sata 6 0 gb | sata 6 0 gb | sata 3 0 gb | sata 6 0 gb | sata 6 0 gb |
compatible devices | Desktop | Desktop | Desktop, PC, Xbox | Desktop | Desktop | Desktop |
form factor | 3.5-inch | 3.5-inch | 3.5-inch | 3.5-inch | 3.5-inch | 3.5-inch |
Product information
Product Dimensions | 4 x 5.79 x 1.03 inches |
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Item Weight | 1.65 pounds |
Manufacturer | Western Digital |
Language | English |
ASIN | B002XW44QY |
Item model number | WD2003FYYS |
National Stock Number | 7025-01-604-0674 |
Customer Reviews |
4.4 out of 5 stars |
Best Sellers Rank | #795 in Internal Hard Drives #11,328 in Computer Internal Components |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Date First Available | November 19, 2009 |
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Western Digital RE4 2 TB SATA2 64MB RAID Hard Drive WD2003FYYS
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Customers like the space, performance and installation of the hard drive. For example, they mention that it holds plenty of games, performs flawlessly and that the installation was straight forward with no surprises. Some appreciate the value. That said, opinions are mixed on quality, warranty and noise.
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Customers are satisfied with the performance of the hard drive. They mention that it functions as intended, hasn't slowed down over time, and has the amount of storage specified in the product. The drive has performed flawlessly over the last month or two, and the other results were equally impressive. They say the drive has excellent speed, reliability, and value, and is great with Linux OS's. Overall, customers find the performance to be satisfying.
"...Overall, the Western Digital RE4 500GB, is a very satisfying product that seems a good step above in quality and performs better than any drive I've..." Read more
"...I got it fast, saved a few bucks, got the full 5 yrs and it works great. I would buy another "like new" drive without hesitation." Read more
"...wizard, explaining each step and choice I had to make... The drive is running perfectly!!!..." Read more
"...Their performance is good. In the large array they provide large storage at a decent price with acceptable performance...." Read more
Customers like the value of the hard drive. They mention it's a great value for a low priced HDD storage solution with high reliability. Some say that the drive is a nice size for the money.
"...My experience is, thus, mixed. However the price per spindle is dramatically better than using branded drives from HP, Dell, or the other major..." Read more
"...If you're looking for a low priced HDD storage solution with high reliability and good read/write times, look no further...." Read more
"...These are surprisingly affordable and you will get to enjoy data transfer speeds and reliability that not many other drives can match...." Read more
"...This is an excellent price for an excellent model drive. I would have kept mine if they had passed diagnostic tests...." Read more
Customers like the space provided by the hard drive. They mention that it holds plenty of games and hasn't crashed. They also expect a long lifetime, providing large storage at a decent price. Customers also appreciate the enterprise reliability and peace of mind. They say the relatively large cache (64 MiB) allows the drives to run with amazing speed. Customers say the drive is rated to handle the duty cycles that they need to put on it, and transfers are a blast.
"...Their performance is good. In the large array they provide large storage at a decent price with acceptable performance...." Read more
"...consider buying them anyway...after all, the RE4 is designed for long-term usage and is incredibly reliable...." Read more
"...it effortlessly streams my 1080p media and provides me fast and accessible storage for my extensive photo and music collection...." Read more
"...as intended, hasn't slowed down over time, and has the amount of storage specified in the product's description and title...." Read more
Customers like the installation of the hard drive. They mention that it's straight forward with no surprises, easy to do, and without issues encountered. They appreciate the convenient HD carrier assembly that unclips and swings out. Customers also mention that the drive is quiet and trouble-free.
"...The Precision T5400 has a wonderfully convenient HD carrier assembly that unclips and swings out and the drives are held in caddies that can be..." Read more
"...It's as easy as plug-and-play should be to get this drive going - and the comfort of a five year warranty is a big plus...." Read more
"...Installation was straight forward with no surprises...." Read more
"...business owner with pretty good computer skills I found it easy to set up and implement...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the quality of the computer drive. Some mention that it's an enterprise quality drive, while others say that it went bad within a couple of days.
"...Digital RE4 500GB, is a very satisfying product that seems a good step above in quality and performs better than any drive I've had...." Read more
"...I am still giving four stars because these drives are solid and amazing and I believe these reviews should be about the product, not Amazon's..." Read more
"...Last week, one of the drives failed, but thankfully I had the RAID 5 which falls back to RAID 0 in this situation...." Read more
"...They are designed for usage in commercial applications where a disk is constantly going through read/write cycles, and where both speed and..." Read more
Customers are mixed about the noise of the computer drive. Some mention that it's relatively quiet, while others say that it makes screeching noises as they power on the PC.
"...The RE4 is very quiet- and the T5400 has a heavy case and cover that probably assists this, and it seems to me to have less vibration than any drive..." Read more
"...These are a tad noisier than the previous drives, but not enough to be a concern, hard to hear them over the case fans which are not super quiet on..." Read more
"...That has not been my experience - to date, it has been one of the quietest drives I've used, even when loading large game files...." Read more
"...The 1 thing I'm not too fond of is this drive's noise when under heavy use. It can get pretty loud with a weird grinding noise but so far no issues." Read more
Customers are mixed about the warranty of the computer drive. Some mention that the 5-year warranty is nice, while others say that it expires in less than 30 days.
"...made, sporting excellent speed, reliability & value, with a fantastic 5-year warranty.-----------------------------..." Read more
"...on the WD site, the information showed that this drive is a NO WARRANTY drive...." Read more
"...that you have business-grade or enterprise-class quality and a five year warranty...." Read more
"...to that link, Western Digital emailed me saying that the warranty was invalid: "Thank you for providing us a copy of your Proof of Purchase..." Read more
Customers are mixed about the temperature of the computer drive. Some mention that it runs cool, while others say that it seems to run hot. The temperature is a bit high and may require some cooling.
"...They do run a hot if you start stacking them in a chassis without a good amount of airflow so keep a look out for that...." Read more
"...brilliant- very nicely made and has a extremely quiet fan which keeps it very cool...." Read more
"...Unfortunately, the other one just got hot and did not work at all...." Read more
"...They are very quiet and run cool, albiet at 7200RPM instead of 10000RPM as the SAS drives they replaced ran." Read more
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Having hovered on the fringes of 3D CAD long enough, I recently purchased a used Dell Precision T5400 workstation (Xeon quad core 3.16 Ghz, 4GB RAM, 1TB Hitachi, Quadro FX570 video card) to get the best performance I could using AutoCad Revit 2011 and Inventor Pro 2011- both very demanding 3D CAD programs. I upgraded the T5400 to 12GB RAM, and from Vista Business 64-bit to Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, and today I'm adding an NVidia geforce GTX 285 1GB that will configured to emulate a Quadro 5800 CAD oriented card- (and thereby saving about $3,000 on the card). Because I'm not very disciplined with backup and always worried about HD failure- though I've only had 2 failures in 18 years, I decided to set up- eventually -a RAID 1 that would have a pair of HD's that continually mirror each other.
Having had good luck with Western Digital drives and read many HD reviews, I chose a Western Digital RE4, 500GB. Another contender was the single platter Samsung 500GB which is also very fast. Early on during research, I was planning to buy a pair of WD Caviar Black 1TB, but WD has arranged that only the Enterprise series can be configured for RAID- some sort of error correction is not present in their other series, so an RE4 it was. Instead of having to learn how to set up the RAID, for the time being, I decided to take the 1TB Hitachi out of the T5400, mount it in a USB HD enclosure (Sabrent eSATA to SATA aluminum) and for now this external drive would become the backup drive. The external drive will only run when backing up and I'm hoping that will extend it's life substantially. By the way, the Sabrent aluminum enclosure is brilliant- very nicely made and has a extremely quiet fan which keeps it very cool. The blue lights give it a serious, almost military hardware quality.
The Precision T5400 has a wonderfully convenient HD carrier assembly that unclips and swings out and the drives are held in caddies that can be unclipped and draw vertically from the carrier. It's possible to change drives in less than 5 minutes. Having had a disaster while using Paragon Suite 10- during which the 1-year old WD 750BG disk from my XP machine (Dell Dimension 8400) became a door stop, I set the RE4 in the second drive caddy on SATA 1 and cloned the Hitachi (on SATA 0)to the RE4 using Easus ToDo 2.5 which is a free version, and excellent- you can be cloning in minutes. I recommend that anyone contemplating an HD upgrade spend an equal effort in carefully choosing utilities- the software I bought ruined a HD and created many hours of frustration, while the free product sailed through. When cloning the partitions from the Hitachi to the RE4, the transfer ran initially at 3.87GB/min and at the end, at 3.2GB/sec. In all it copied about 120GB in four partitions in about 29 minutes. I used the Easus to copy a backup of C: to another HD partition in a Dell Optiplex 740 (Athlon 64 dual core 2.4Ghz, Hitachi 500GB) and the transfer rate was about 2.4GB/min- still seeming quite fast. The 64MB cache of the RE4 is something that improves read/write rates, and that may be a lot of the difference- it really works. Checking at the end of the cloning session, the RE4 was running at 89F and the Hitachi in the enclosure at 110F. At the moment, the RE4 is at 82F- only 10 degrees above the room. I was surprised that with the RE4 my Windows Experience index for the T5400 disk remained the same at 5.9, as the startup, application speeds, and transfer times seemed very much improved.
The RE4 is very quiet- and the T5400 has a heavy case and cover that probably assists this, and it seems to me to have less vibration than any drive I've had. Looking at it physically, it seems more substantially made, and I can see that the base of the platter spindle is large diameter. WD touts this extra rotational stability as a reason they can offer a 5- year warranty- and it must be effective. If you are using CAD, a good video card is essential in combination with fast read/write drive speeds. And, if you're on a budget as I am, consider high end gaming cards that use the same GPU as CAD-oriented cards. There are several NVidia geforce cards that can act as extremely expensive Quadros. Wikipedia has a fantastically useful table of quadro cards with notes on which geforce uses the same GPU. You can use a utility to simply rename the card as the CAD version and using the CAD drivers, save, save, save while having very high CAD performance. That's how the GTX285 can emulate a Quadro 5800 costing 10 times as much (note: the 285 is 1GB and the 5800 4GB). If you use Autodesk products, you can download optimized drivers for their recommended cards. Gaming cards concentrate on fast frame rates- abbreviating shading and rendering while CAD cards shade and render every frame fully. In these applications the combination of fast disk and fast video can transform the 3D CAD use. Newer software is increasingly taking advantage of multiple cores as well- if you have AutoCad 2007 or newer, type WHIPTHREAD in the command line, choose one of three configurations, and it will optimize core threading.
A word about HD size: When contemplating my needs for HD space, I determined that all the files I've created since 1993- excluding many GB's of audio files on my recording computer (HP Elite quad core 3Ghz Q6600, 8GB RAM)- is only about 25GB and that includes 9,000 documents, 600 AutoCad drawings, and 11,000 images. When I set up the Hitachi drive- which was a 1TB, I created a 100GB partition for the OS and Programs, 100Gb for active files, 100GB for archive files, and the remaining 700GB for a backup copy of C:. Adding it up- 45GB in C:, 22 in D:, 18 in F: and 45 in G:, at this rate I could theoretically use something like a 160GB drive with room for 10 more years of work. Message- have a look at your real storage needs. Also, consider a reasonably compact partition for the OS/programs- because the tracking arms then have a shorter distance to travel, the access time is noticeably reduced and of course, partitions are virus resistant. With the RE4 "short-shifted" in this way, except for the huge 3D applications, starting applications like WordPerfect X4 and Corel Photopaint is more like "snapping" them on- they just appear instantly. I changed the video card in the Optiplex 740 from onboard shared 1GB ATI Radeon 6150LE to a Quadro FX 570 (256MB) and the Windows Index for gaming graphics went from 3.7 to 4.9 and the important for me graphics index from 3.0 to 4.6- a 60% percent improvement. By the way, over the years, Dell computers seem to have a consistently high synergy with NVidia cards.
Overall, the Western Digital RE4 500GB, is a very satisfying product that seems a good step above in quality and performs better than any drive I've had. 3D CAD is very read/write intensive and the 64MB cache of the RE4 is surely helping- and can properly support the speeds of a high performance video card. The RE4 may be the beautiful swan song of mechanical HD's- and my last mechanical HD purchase. When 320GB SSD's are $100,...
Summary: The extra cost for the RE4 is one of the best uses for $20 I can think of! Consider carefull, disk utility software, using compact OS/application partitions, and a video card that in combination can utilize the capabilities of the RE4. Amazon as usual did very well, and the RE4 was sent in a fitted box with formed plastic end holders.
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The disk arrived in 2 days, as promised, in a plain brown WD box--but much to my surprise it wasn't wrapped in a static guard bag and the drive itself had been marked with a permanent black marker with the number "1". And, the manufacture date on it was 6 months old. Hmmm... this doesn't look good--not exactly "like new". I downloaded and ran the Western Digital Data LifeGuard Diagnostics test and it passed. I then went to wdc.com to register it. After plugging in the serial number it said "Limited Warranty" with 4.5 yrs left (based on the manufacture date). I was afraid of that. But I decided to complete the registration and when I entered the purchase date, it changed the warranty to 5yrs + 1 month (61 months). Sweet! I did a final backup that night of the old RAID OS volume and restored it to the new drive the next morning using Acronis True Image. I did this instead of "cloning" because it can be done within Windows 7--recreating the active/running OS partition--without interacting with it. The restore to the new disk took less than an hour. I adjusted the BIOS settings for the new OS disk and it booted right up. Flawless.
The take-home message #1 is: if it's essential to your livelihood, you need redundancy like a RAID 5 or a mirror setup AND a backup system (mine is Acronis True Image setup to backup every night). Now, I feel a little insecure because I don't have the redundancy anymore which means I could lose whatever work I do since the previous evening should the new drive fail. But, I think the RE4 disk is still a good choice if you're using a single disk. I will probably get 1 more when money isn't quite so tight and at least have a mirror.
The take-home message #2 is: Don't jump to conclusions. Things aren't always as bad as they might appear. You can still get the full 5 yrs from WD buying from Amazon Warehouse Deals and their packaging is just that: packaging. It might not look good, but it's how the product performs that matters. I got it fast, saved a few bucks, got the full 5 yrs and it works great. I would buy another "like new" drive without hesitation.
The product was shipped in a timely fashion and packed very well. I would definitely purchase this item again if needed.