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Old 03-27-2007, 11:57 PM   #1
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I always get RAID edition hard drives

I always get RAID edition hard drives and use them. Is it a good or bad thing to do?

What exactly is "Fast Low power RAID-specific, time-limited error recovery (TLER) Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF) SecureConnect FlexPower" all about?



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Old 03-29-2007, 01:28 AM   #2
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What!!??!!

Nobody else gets RAID edition hard drives?



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Old 03-29-2007, 02:03 AM   #3
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What exactly is "Fast Low power RAID-specific, time-limited error recovery (TLER) Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF) SecureConnect FlexPower" all about?
Marketing, it seems. I've read about there being a technical difference, although I'm not sure if it's effect is beneficial in home/non-RAID use.
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IIRC at least Western Digital recommends that regular consumers buy the consumer editions, not the RAID editions. But I don't know why.

As for terminology, there's some info on that here: Western Digital's 500GB Caviar RE2 and SE16 hard drives - The Tech Report - Page 1
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Thanks for the link.



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Old 03-30-2007, 12:41 AM   #6
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WoW !!!

I just went through the article. Nice find kONGO! Right on point!



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