Good value ?

Connrang

Morning,

Just ordered one of these, seems a pretty decent price for a Western Digital system. Could not find a better price


http://store.westerndigital.com/store/wdeu/en_IE/buy/ThemeID.22586100/productID.300324400/categoryID.60680000

Agent Smith

Connrang wrote: »

Morning,

Just ordered one of these, seems a pretty decent price for a Western Digital system. Could not find a better price


http://store.westerndigital.com/store/wdeu/en_IE/buy/ThemeID.22586100/productID.300324400/categoryID.60680000

Recertified?

L1011

Its been returned before and it has the wrong plug. Its not fantastic value...

http://www.elara.ie/productdetail.aspx?productcode=ECE2546754 new and cheaper; not WD though.

Connrang

Re-certified, that would mean it was tested by a human being rather than a computerised system. I'm happy with that. As for the plug, I must have a box of them here from different systems. Even if you take the HDD out it is good value, and before ye state the obvious, yes the guarantee is void but I've been using WD products for years and have had only 1 failure on a brand new HDD.I'm sure somebody out there would be happy with it for 83 Euro

styron

WD recertified products may consist of customer return units and may be repaired. All products are tested and determined to meet WD's stringent quality standards before they are sold as recertified. Sometimes, refurbished products may have minor cosmetic blemishes that do not impact their performance.
All recertified products carry manufacturer’s limited warranty of 6 months

http://store.westerndigital.com/store/wdus/en_US/list/ThemeID.21986300/parentCategoryID.13092700/categoryID.13096400

http://support.wdc.com/warranty/policy.asp#recertifiedproducts

cathyledger

I think its a decent price. As you said if you take the HDD out to use its still a good price.

Stuxnet

Connrang wrote: »

I'm sure somebody out there would be happy with it for 83 Euro

your not including the VAT with that price, its 119.

Would rather RAID 3x1TB drives myself and have three times the read/write speeds for less money

Connrang

Seriously, did you not see the price
SubTotal: 67,72 €
Shipping: 0,00 €
Tax: 15,58 €
Total: 83,30 €
Discount: 45,42 €

davo2001

Stuxnet wrote: »

your not including the VAT with that price, its 119.

Would rather RAID 3x1TB drives myself and have three times the read/write speeds for less money

RAIDing HDDs will not increase the read/write speeds, if anything it slows down the transfer rate as the same data needs to be simultaneously written to 3 separate HDDs.

bazwaldo

That's mirroring aka RAID 1.

Striping aka RAID 0 will increase speeds.

same ol sh1te

davo2001 wrote: »

RAIDing HDDs will not increase the read/write speeds, if anything it slows down the transfer rate as the same data needs to be simultaneously written to 3 separate HDDs.

Not true, Raid 1 increases read speeds as the info is read in stripes the same as raid 0

maki

same ol sh1te wrote: »

Not true, Raid 1 increases read speeds as the info is read in stripes the same as raid 0

No it doesn't. If it did it would need to move the drive head forward while data was being read from the other disk, instead of reading sequential data. The drive head can't move fast enough for that to be worth it.

In the case of random reads it may offer a theoretical speed increase of 2X, but in reality much less, depending on chunk sizes.
It's also kernel dependent, so will not work on Windows.

same ol sh1te

maki wrote: »

No it doesn't. If it did it would need to move the drive head forward while data was being read from the other disk, instead of reading sequential data. The drive head can't move fast enough for that to be worth it.

In the case of random reads it may offer a theoretical speed increase of 2X, but in reality much less, depending on chunk sizes.
It's also kernel dependent, so will not work on Windows.

Who mentioned Windows, I don't use it myself. Software raid on Linux is the way to go, but that's for another thread.

davo2001

same ol sh1te wrote: »

Not true, Raid 1 increases read speeds as the info is read in stripes the same as raid 0

Again, not true.

Stuxnet

Connrang wrote: »

Seriously, did you not see the price
SubTotal: 67,72 €
Shipping: 0,00 €
Tax: 15,58 €
Total: 83,30 €
Discount: 45,42 €

Im seeing a different price ?

maki

Stuxnet wrote: »

Im seeing a different price ?

The Total is the Price incl. VAT minus the discount.
€83.30 is the final price to pay if you proceed to the following order pages.

Stuxnet

Fair enough, thanks

Connrang

Hi,
Just received confirmation of shipping from Amsterdam, and invoice shows €83 total price, cannot see it on the credit card just yet.

L1011

davo2001 wrote: »

Again, not true.

Controller dependent. There are controllers which provide faster than single disk read speeds on RAID1. Writes aren't improved for obvious reasons.

Software RAID provided with a consumer motherboard won't do that, though.

Connrang

Hi again,
System delivered, eventually. Was going great until UPS mis-scanned and delivered Monday instead of Friday. Anyways, not a scratch or mark on it, does come with an Euro plug but no shortages of adapters here. Being USB3 works a dream and as silent as a politician when you want an answer to question on their expenses

Capt'n Midnight

Stuxnet wrote: »

your not including the VAT with that price, its 119.

Would rather RAID 3x1TB drives myself and have three times the read/write speeds for less money

[rant]RAID 3 means you will loose all your data unless you swap out drives when they fail and don't have another drive crash during the rebuild
also you're painted into the corner unless you have a spare controller if it dies

software mirroring and virtualisation [/rant]