• Western Digital RE4 WD2003FYYS

    Western Digital RE4 WD2003FYYS

    Jayesh Limaye, Feb 23, 2010 1255 hrs IST

    This new 2TB 7,200 RPM hard drive from WD is one of the fastest server hard drives out there

    Very fast, perpendicular recording technology, huge capacity

    Heats up, a bit noisier than WD GreenPower drives, expensive

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Capacity wars have been going on for years in the magnetic storage hard drive arena. First, it was Hitachi with the 1 TB hard drive, then came Seagate with a 1.5 TB drive a couple of years ago. However, the crown for largest capacity was snatched by Western Digital last year with its unprecedented 2.0 TB hard drive. WD recently announced the first two 2.0 TB hard drives with platters spinning at 7,200 RPM (earlier drives ran at lower speeds).

This 2.0 TB juggernaut of data storage - WD RE4 WD2003FYYS - is an enterprise class hard drive. The RE4 moniker means that this is part of the RAID Edition lineup of WD hard drives tuned to deliver the highest reliability and performance to the enterprise segment and is meant to be used in servers. Read on to find out how well this hard drive performed in our tests.

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~HeadShot~
,Bangalore, on Feb 23, 2010 11:20 PM
"If you take a close look at the specifications, the RE4 is similar to the Caviar Black 2.0 TB in all aspects except that the RE4 boasts of double the Load/Unload cycles and ten times *higher* non-recoverable read errors per bits read, indicating a much higher data integrity and reliability." - Page 2 I guess its 'lower' instead of 'higher'.
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