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Western Digital WD2003FYYS
7.9 out of 10

Western Digital WD2003FYYS

WD RE4 enterprise SATA hard drives combine 64 MB cache with dual Read more

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Reviews and Problems with Western Digital WD2003FYYS

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Overall 6
6.0

1 out of 2 dead

JustHavingFun, Newegg
1 January 2013
  • Pros: Do not know, got 2 to create a RAID 1 set, cant do that with ony one drive
  • Cons: 50% dead rate and when registering the good drive at western digital site, it said No Limited Warranty - Product was originally sold to a system manufacturer. Please c...
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Overall 6
6.0

7 of 8 good

TeraMedia, Newegg
22 August 2012
  • Pros: The ones that work are working well. I was able to do a set of drive replacements in a 92%+ full RAID 5 array in ~5 hours, which is somewhere near 106 MB/s average R o...
  • Cons: One drive died within a month, but not identified till outside of 30-day RMA window. At first the problem was obscured by a less-than-useless Rosewill RC-218 causing B...
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Overall 6
6.0

Annoyed

DrT3K, Newegg
23 June 2011
  • Pros: Speeds are great, 120mb+ read avg.
  • Cons: After the computer has been asleep for a while( more that a few minutes ), the drive is missing when it wakes up. Have to restart the system to get the drive back.
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Overall 6
6.0

1 of 2 pretty bad

beltone, Newegg
25 December 2010
  • Pros: Have several of these running on a nas and have been pretty reliable so far, about 6 months.
  • Cons: 1 of 2 drives ordered came DOA. A little high on price. Crazy in that I've ordered 2 different drives from NE in 2 orders and both orders had 1 DOA drive. What are the...
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Overall 6
6.0

Correction on Warranty

haloguy628, Newegg
14 December 2010
  • Pros: This is a correction to my post below.
  • Cons: Bad quality control on HDs that should be the top priority for WD being Raid Edition and Enterprise grade.
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Overall 6
6.0

User Review

Newegg
20 July 2010
  • Pros: 2 TB of space.
  • Cons: Ordered 6 drives. 1 of them had smart failures during the creation of a raid 5 array.
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Overall 6
6.0

Mixed picture

hilwhi, Amazon
7 January 2011
  • Summary: I bought four of the Western Digital RE4 2 Tb drives. Delivered quickly despite it being near Christmas. Three worked, one was dead on arrival.
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Overall 6
6.0

User Review

Tigger, Mindfactory.de
24 February 2012
  • Summary: Eingebau 1h Kopiert nach weiteren 3 Stunden war sie hin. Also quasi ein DOD sowas kann immer mal Passieren. Aber in dem Preisbereich und als Enterprise Storage ?
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