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Can WD's RE2 drives be used without RAID?

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nunyez   08-15-2009 at 04:43:50 AM

I ask because the WD Green http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822136359 and the WD RE2 are pretty similar minus the cache yet the RE2 has a 5 year warranty instead of the Green's 3. Because of this I am thinking of going with the RE2 instead but I won't be using it in RAID if that matters. Is there anything else I am missing?

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Bronze Home Brew badge jbakerlent   08-15-2009 at 05:07:21 AM
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Don't get a green, I would go with one of these instead.

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Western Digital Caviar Black WD6401AALS 640GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5"
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SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal
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Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5"
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Edit: The RE2 use different firmware from the non raid editions so I wouldn't think they would work alone, but I am not entirely sure.


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the last resort   08-15-2009 at 05:16:24 AM
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the RE2's, im pretty sure, are meant for RAID (Raid Edition). They are the ones that support RAID in their firmware as stated by jbakerlent, and so i think that they would also work alone.

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MicroNateDram   08-15-2009 at 07:44:16 PM
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RE have different time out for fails and recovery than the Green or Black standard editions.

Key here is:
Buy a standard edition for all cases (raid or non raid). You can download a program to convert a non-raid edition drive into a raid-edition drive.

Take a look at this article for more information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time- [...] r_Recovery

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GhislainG   08-15-2009 at 11:58:47 PM
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the last resort wrote :

the RE2's, im pretty sure, are meant for RAID (Raid Edition). They are the ones that support RAID in their firmware as stated by jbakerlent, and so i think that they would also work alone.

You are correct. RAID drives have always worked alone; otherwise a degraded RAID1 would not work.

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