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Western Digital 2 TB RE4-GP SATA 3 Gb/s Intellipower 64 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Enterprise Hard Drive - WD2002FYPS

Brand: Western Digital Model: WD2002FYPS Released on: 2010-09-11 Format: CD-ROM Number of items: 1 Dimensions: 1.00" h x 4.00" w x 5.80" l, 1.08 pounds Hard Disk: 2000GB Offers data-hungry organizations massive capacity with significant power savings and lower cost while delivering performance Designed based on WD's exclusive GreenPower platform, to deliver power savings and equipped with 64 MB cache and dual processors. A fine-tuned balance of spin speed, transfer rate and caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance. RAID-specific, time-limited error recovery (TLER) - Prevents drive fallout caused by the extended hard drive error-recovery processes Ships in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging

Most helpful customer reviews 10 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Unacceptable Failure Rate By Karl Burrows **Update 2/10/2011** Another RMA for all three drives. I just spent 2 weeks rebuilding my RAID, restoring and re-backing up my data after the drives corrupted all my data. This is the 4th set of drives for me. They are upgrading them to the 2003 version that has the set 72000RPM speed to eliminate the issue with drive timing issues. **Update 1/10/2010** Western Digital swapped out my old drives for the newer version which seem to handle the read/writes and spin rates much better. I had to rebuild the RAID for each drive replacement and copy my data over for backup (about 1.5TB including some large video files exceeding 15GB). Transfers were seamless and rebuilds went without a hitch. The new version is WD2002FYPS-02W3B0. Make sure you get this firmware version when you order. They do seem to fix the issues I was having. They have only been running for a few weeks and time will tell if they end up with the same read errors the older version drives had, but I feel better about these. Original review: I purchased 3 of these drives to create a RAID5 array to give me 4TB of storage for my work and personal files. I immediately had issues with the drives due to spin rates and compatibility with RAID controllers. It took work from both the RAID controller manufacturer (Areca) and WD to get firmware updates to allow these drive to sync their spin rates with the controllers read/write requests. During that time, I had the drives fail 5 times. Once we got the firmware issues resolved, I thought all was well. Now about 6 months later, 2 more drives have failed within 3 weeks of each other with the same read/write issues I had previously. I have confirmed that it has been the WD firmware each time. WD refuses to acknowledge issues on their end, so it has been up to me to resolve all of the firmware issues. I think Areca wrote several firmware updates due to my working with them on these drives and their controller to try to work around WD insistence it wasn't their issue. Finally, Areca and WD got together and WD finally came out with the correct firmware to fix the spin rates and timing to work in RAID. I can't afford to pay as much as I did for these drives and have them fail more frequently than any other drives I have owned or sold. They are supposed to be enterprise drives and provide millions of hours of up time. I'm not getting thousands of hours of up time without failures. These drives had manufacturing issues from the start with all the posts I have found with similar issues as mine. This is not what I expect from what are supposed to the the flagship of drives from WD. I am in the process of returning all the drives and looking for other drive options for my RAID configuration. 14 of 17 people found the following review helpful. WD 2 TB Hard Drives - Five By Barry Shuler I purchased five of these 2 TB Western Digital Data Center Rated Hard Drives for a new Synology DS509+ Network Attached Storage Server I bought for my small business. After about two weeks up and running, so far so good. They are extremely quiet, and generate just a small amount of heat. The variable speed capability works great. When there is no read-write activity, the drives are very quiet and consume less energy. When read-write activity is high, they are only marginally noisier. The read-write speed, at least from a subjective viewpoint, when doing backups is outstanding. 5 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Works well with NAS By R. Burns These drives have performed flawlessly in a NetGear ReadyNAS Pro. It is necessary for the NAS's firmware to disable the 'green' function of these drives to prevent repetitive head parking (Load Cycle Count). Alternatively WD provides a patch called WDidle3 to use if your NAS's firmware isn't up to date. I was an early adopter to using this drive in a RAID NAS, and will buy these drives