Comments on: Review: Western Digital WD20EADS 2TB SATA-II Hard Drive

By: Pattie @ Western Digital Online

Pattie @ Western Digital Online — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 05:49:28 +0000

Hi, just wandered by. I have a Western Digital website. Truly more information than you can imagine on the web. Looking for something else, but cool site. Take care.

By: danevald

danevald — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:44:04 +0000

This is a great disk, but I’ve experienced heavy problems with it, when used in a Synology RS409+ NAS. We had 4 of these in a RAID5 and the RAID crashed 2 times. It reports the system partition as: failed on first one disk and then another shortly after and that crashes the RAID. The most disturbing thing is that a lot of people have experienced this, but the disk is still on the compatibility list for Synology’s NAS-servers. This is just to inform that it’s not the best idea to use on these. We now moved the disks out on normal Windows-setups and they’re running fine here.

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By: Chris Evans

Chris Evans — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:29:27 +0000

You’re right! I shortened the words the wrong way. Thanks for spotting it, I’ll make the change for next time.

Chris

By: Maarten

Maarten — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:34:54 +0000

Nice review, and I’m looking foward to seeing the same data for faster 7200rpm 2TB drives. I’m not terribly impressed with the 125 IOPS this drive achieves.

By: Ratnadeep Joshi

Ratnadeep Joshi — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:00:12 +0000

Hi,

In the article “Review: Western Digital WD20EADS 2TB SATA-II Hard Drive”, you have shown some graphs outlining the performance measured by IOMeter.

In two of the graphs
1) http://thestoragearchitect.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/wd20eadsrnd11.png and
2) http://thestoragearchitect.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/wd20eadsrnd21.png.

These graphs have heading that says ‘Write enabled’ and ‘Write disabled’. Shouldn’t it be ‘Cache enabled’ and ‘Cache disabled’?