WD AAKS Vs YS (RE) Drives

[ati]

hellooo all

anyone knows the main differences between those two drives:

Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB 3200AAKS

&

Western Digital Caviar RE 320GB 3200YS

any performance difference?

thanks

[Robbie G]

I *think* the RE stands for RAID edition. The RE is I think a slightly more expensive server hard drive that is meant to be optimised for RAID and also has support for NCQ (pretty useless for most home users).

[Zak33]

RE IS BUSINESS DRIVE.

it has old style molex power plug and is slightly slower than AAKS

i got two of these (one of each) deliberately to find out.

i wanted a data drive and so kept enterprise RE drive and sold aaks.

if i was using it for main boot drive i'd have kept aaks, though i hate the new sata power lead connectors.

re has 5 yr warranty. aaks has 3

[Zak33]

http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=108395

[ati]

hellloo

cheers for all your suggestions, the aaks will be my windows boot drive, is there any significant sifference in technology and the aaks has ncq as well i think.

thanks

[Robbie G]

the aaks has ncq as well i think.

No, it doesn't.

[Dreaming]

I'm using two WD1600YS RE in raid0 for my windows operating system and they're very speedy. In benchmark terms I don't know how they compare but who notices 0.5 of a second anyway?

I notice in your benchmarks Zak you haven't compared them in raid, though my system is different specs so I don't think it would be a fair test, I might do some benchmarks on my array and put the results up. TBF the main advantage of raid0 is when I'm copying a couple hundred gigs of data it cuts the time down a lot.

[Zak33]

I notice in your benchmarks Zak you haven't compared them in raid, though my system is different specs so I don't think it would be a fair test, I might do some benchmarks on my array and put the results up. TBF the main advantage of raid0 is when I'm copying a couple hundred gigs of data it cuts the time down a lot.

I couldn't chap..only had one of each! I paid for them with my own money, it wasn't a HEXUS initiative, so wasn't funded.

However...I'm very glad I did it because I've been able to help a lot of people since doing it AND it's real life experience, not a review from someone I dont know, or hearsay.

My dislike of the new SATA power lead made me keep the slightly slower drive. I'd happily but either drive though now. Having used them I found then quiet enough, and fast.

[ati]

is like i said on ur other thread there is not huge difference tbh in performance from the results, i dont know if there are other chrateristics with the newer aaks i.e vibration and seek noises which could be better maybe.

can you do a pros and cons of them each if you can

thanks