Western Digital RE RAID Edition 4TB SATA Enterprise Drive - Full Review
HDTune 4.01
HDTune tests a similar level of features that HDTach does, but with a slightly different access pattern and thus can provide us with an additional set of benchmark numbers to compare between storage configurations. Here we can get the minimum, maximum and average transfer rates as well as the burst rates and access times. CPU utilization has proven negligible with modern processing horsepower, and is no longer included.
The RE is yet another step improvement over the Red, and comes close to the VRaptor yet again.
Peak transfer rates came within a percent of WD's stated 181 MB/sec claim.
Random access times were respectable, with only slightly longer latency over the previous generation. This is likely attributed to the heavier head pack assembly and/or more conservative tuning.
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It's RAID edition review without RAID benchmarks, right? Did I miss something or maybe you are not provided enough drives for RAID testing?
All of these drive tend to scale similarly when in a RAID, depending more on the RAID controller than the drive itself. WD had a very limited number of samples for the new RE.
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To answer the first fellow's question. That is simply the name of the drive not what the review entails. RE is short for Raid Edition.
I have always wanted a SSD....Now i want 4 terabyte of hard drive space....
I am curious, do you think the 2TB and 3TB would perform the same as the 4TB version? Will the lower amount of platters and heads cost some performance to the lower capactiy drives?
What I also wonder about is the new line of specific SAS models. Aou can plug a SATA drive in a SAS controller without any problems, so why the specific SAS line?
Thanks!
You can plug a SAS device into a SATA controller but NOT a SATA device into a SAS controller.
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