Seagate barracuda vs western digital black 1TB

samnjugu · 01-25-2010, 12:38 AM

Am trying to upgrade my HDD and wanted to make a choice between the two, anybody have any pointers on which is best.

AleLinuxBSD · 01-25-2010, 02:25 AM

Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200.11 Hard Drive

Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB Hard Drive Review

Before the update i think perhaps is useful check if your Bios is capable to manage this space (on old pc perhaps you could have problems).

samnjugu · 01-25-2010, 07:50 AM

Thanks for the links I will go with the WD Black it seems to have performed better on the side by side tests.

_bsd · 01-25-2010, 04:03 PM

BEWARE: The WD 1TB 1001FALS drives presently shipping from newegg cannot have their tler setting altered.
If you intend on using this in a RAID rig, FORGET IT!

_bsd · 01-25-2010, 06:10 PM

I would like to know if I can downgrade the WD 1001FALS 5.00K firmware to a previous version so that the tler util will work.

samnjugu · 01-26-2010, 12:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by _bsd

BEWARE: The WD 1TB 1001FALS drives presently shipping from newegg cannot have their tler setting altered.
If you intend on using this in a RAID rig, FORGET IT!

Thanks for the heads up but I wont have RAID on it as system will be running from another drive, I just wanted to move all my media songs, vid, pics etc to their own separate drive.

samnjugu · 01-26-2010, 12:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by _bsd

I would like to know if I can downgrade the WD 1001FALS 5.00K firmware to a previous version so that the tler util will work.

Do they have utils that work under Linux