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Originally Posted by rowan
Did you remove the jumper at the rear that forces it into SATA150 mode? I don't think SATA150/SATA v1 supports AHCI, NCQ etc. I had a new server set to IDE/compatibility mode and on boot it was reported as SATA150 with read/write speeds not much faster than 20Mbytes/sec; once I changed that to native AHCI it was identified as SATA300 and speeds went to past 50Mbytes/sec.
I still remain cynical about the difference between desktop and so-called enterprise drives, I think a lot of it is in the marketing. The only obvious enterprise drive that WD manufactures is the VelociRaptor, which has a remarkably different form to all of their 3.5" drives. I have one and it's working hard, the seeking sounds like crackling electricity.  |
Neat thanks for the advice, I think I'm gonna *gasp* power off and see if this is the case.
I use an old 36gb raptor as my main OS drive still, can't bring myself to get one of those velociraptors yet.. Plus I doubt they help much on anything but a server or a busy file system.