odditory,
We are exactly on the same page. All of the above have been performed. As far as the date of purchase, I think I bought this thing in 09, but I am not 100% positive. I need to go through my email archives and dig-up my NewEgg receipt. The warranty on the card is 3 years, correct...
Folks,
I have had my Areca 1260 for a few years, and it has been completely trouble free. Unfortunately, that trouble-free streak came to an abrupt end a few days ago. The other day my computer would randomly freeze, and become completely unresponsive to all input. After some troubleshooting...
Same here... got a replacement drive from WD with a date code of July 16th. No TLER support... crud
QUOTE=d3vy;1036053075]What a shame. Got 4 new wd20eads drives back from RMA.
Model 00W4B0 production date july 2010. Unable to change/view TLER :(
On my other 24 drives (00S2B0 / 00R6B0 /...
I just picked-up 4 WD20EADS with a manufacture date of January 2010. All the drives are running 01.00A01. Full model number: WDC WD20EADS-00R6B0. None of the drives would take the RE4 firmware. I was able to successfully enable TLER and disable head parking on all of the drives.
Does anyone...
I am about to start building my RAID array and I was debating between the WD20EADS and WD2002FYPS. The RE drives are significantly more expensive, and I would much rather save some money and go with desktop edition drives. After reading this entire thread I have two questions:
1) Regardless...