Western Digital RAID Edition worth the extra price?

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SelRahc

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Can anyone tell me if the WD Caviar RAID Edition 250GB SATA is worth getting over the non-raid edition? The raid edition is 50$+. I do not plan on running raid or hot swap.

Im getting a 74gb raptor for my system drive and a 250gb for everything else. Raid edition or no?
 
Old thread, I know, but I'm curious about this as well... anybody?
 
raid edition?
Raid is 2 or more drives, not some special edition hard drive. And single drive labled "raid edition" is pure gimmick. The only way to have 250GB raid is either 2 125 gig drives in raid 0 or 2 250 gig drives in raid 1. Or some combination of drives totalling up to 250.
 
I see no reason to spend the extra $50 on the RAID edition.

Nice setup, btw, looks familiar ;)
 
It sounds like a marketing ploy....just like selling "Dual Channel" memory.
 
Perhaps, but they aren't really marketing it much now, are they? I hadn't even ever heard of them until I saw them on newegg.

I'm not saying the drives are better than the competition, but it looks like it's at least better than the non-RE caviar, since it's consistently superior in its performance in those benchmarks.
 
djnes said:
It sounds like a marketing ploy....just like selling "Dual Channel" memory.
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Agreed, sounds like marketing more than anything else.
 
Yargh, that be a good point. Perhaps this is not so much a good decision. Thanks for pointing that out.
 
Hate to say this, but Seagate's been offerring 5 year warranties for consumer level drives for a while now. I'm no Seagate pimp, but WD's whopping 2 extra years on an OEM drive is kinda pathetic compared to what Seagate offers for the same price.

just my .02
 
Mr_Evil said:
Hate to say this, but Seagate's been offerring 5 year warranties for consumer level drives for a while now. I'm no Seagate pimp, but WD's whopping 2 extra years on an OEM drive is kinda pathetic compared to what Seagate offers for the same price.

just my .02
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WD = 3 years
Seagate = 5 years

I agree Seagate has an advantage here, but until their 7200.8 drives become available, WD does have an advantage in size, since the 7200.7 drives max out at 200GB.

And in 3 years, that new hard drive will be outdated.

That said, I would love to have a few Seagate 7200.8 400GB drives in RAID5. :D :eek:
 
Western Digital states that because of this feature (TLER) in particular, the RAID Edition drives should not be used in desktop systems, rather only workstations and servers.
 
Well WD Raptors are warrantied for 5 years when bought retail.
 
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