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New HD

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Just got my shiny new 120GB WD 8MB Cache HD after I RMAed the failing one. One question though, why is it black? My old one was silver, well at least on the top part. Also, should this be any faster than my old one? My old one was manufactured September 2003, and this one is from May 3rd 2005.
 
That's the latest WD design, and it is definitly good for you, as the blacktop drives have FDB berrings that are both cooler and quieter than older designs. From some numbers reciently released on storagereview, WD has done some performance enhancing tweaking compared to drives of the same capacity from a while back, but I can't say whether this applies to the 120gb, as that's not what was tested.
 
Vertigo Acid said:
That's the latest WD design, and it is definitly good for you, as the blacktop drives have FDB berrings that are both cooler and quieter than older designs. From some numbers reciently released on storagereview, WD has done some performance enhancing tweaking compared to drives of the same capacity from a while back, but I can't say whether this applies to the 120gb, as that's not what was tested.
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What was tested? IIRC all the caviar (caviar?) drives are the same except for platter sizes and such and such. So all the new versions of the caviar (caviar?) should have the same features.
 
Yes, and platter sizes/counts have a HUGE impact on performance. WD (and all of the makers) also make huge and small firmware tweaks as time goes on - the only thing that a WD Model # denotes is capacity, buffer size, and interface. An 80GB/platter WD1200JB will be significantly faster than a 60GB/platter WD1200JB, despite their having the same model number. All of the makers have people working night and day working on logic tweaks, caching strategy, read ahead algorithms, etc. Depsite the fact that they are intanglible logic facets of HD performance, often have a bigger impact than physical changes.

Also, the black top, as Vertigo says, means you got a drive with FDB Motors. WD is on FDB across the board now (finally). All in all, the new drive should be an across the board improvement - better performance, acoustics, and reliability. WD would be extremely foolish to stand pat on a design from 2003 - they'd go out of business if they did that.
 
DougLite said:
Yes, and platter sizes/counts have a HUGE impact on performance. WD (and all of the makers) also make huge and small firmware tweaks as time goes on - the only thing that a WD Model # denotes is capacity, buffer size, and interface. An 80GB/platter WD1200JB will be significantly faster than a 60GB/platter WD1200JB, despite their having the same model number. All of the makers have people working night and day working on logic tweaks, caching strategy, read ahead algorithms, etc. Depsite the fact that they are intanglible logic facets of HD performance, often have a bigger impact than physical changes.

Also, the black top, as Vertigo says, means you got a drive with FDB Motors. WD is on FDB across the board now (finally). All in all, the new drive should be an across the board improvement - better performance, acoustics, and reliability. WD would be extremely foolish to stand pat on a design from 2003 - they'd go out of business if they did that.
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Haha, thankyou. Have you seen any reviews of the new one? I couldent find any.
 
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