Anyone know if the January/Febuary 2004 WD1200JB drives are identical to the summer 2003 drives?

CZroe

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My fileserver consist of six WD1200JB drives and all but one are three year warranty drives manufactured in summer 2003. The very last one was made in January or Febuary 2004, only has a 1-year warranty and I'm hoping it's the same platter density.

If it's not 100% identical, I'd like to put it up for trade with an additional HDD. Does anyone know how I can tell without opening/using it? Someone told me to use some chart on Storage Review and compare performance differences but I can't find it...
 

Arcanedeath

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I can't remember if the summer of 2003 drivers are 2 or 3 platter drives, but your new drive is definitly a 2 platter drive, so if you can find out or remember if you older drives are 2 or 3 platters that will tell you if they are the same or not. Hope this helps... :)