Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 SATA HD

[deepinya]

I got mine in the same manner. Some bubble wrap wouldnt hurt!

 

[zerodeefex]

Mine came in bubble wrap surrounded by packing peanuts. That's so weird. I got mine from Baldwin Park, CA

 

[chinkgai]

the amount of G's these things could handle when not in operation is tremendous...as long as they didnt ship it bare...you guys should be safe.

although for peace of mind...it wouldnt hurt to add some packaging =P

EDIT: taken from their site:

Environmental Specifications
Shock
Operating Shock (Read) 30G, 2 ms
Non-operating Shock 300G, 2 ms

 

[Bozo Galora]

the heads on this drive are parked OFF the platters, so damage by shock should be very hard to do.

 

[Throckmorton]

Originally posted by: Solema
I just received my two from the CA shipping office, and they also came loosely wrapped in brown paper, but at least they were placed in the middle of the box and surrounded by packing peanuts on all sides. I haven't tested them yet, but now I am weary of putting these two into my rig. I was planning to replace my 80GB Hitachis in RAID-0 with these two. Does anyone know of a utility I can use to fully test the drives AFTER I set them up in RAID-0? I ask because I am all out of SATA ports, so when these go in, my 80gigs come out.

Also, it appears that those who receive the drives from NJ get the better packing job. Perhaps we could all compare what we got in our orders and see if we can come up with a cheap item of some sort that we could order alongside these drives to guarantee they get shipped out of NJ?

Any ideas?

Seriously? Packing paper? In the middle of peanuts, as if peanuts don't let the object hit the sides of the box? What about static? I would send those back immediately, and also the ones surrounded by bubble wrap. Remember, you can have static damage to your hardware with no immediate impact on performance or reliability.

 

[the unknown]

The OEM 640gig drive I received from newegg was not bare;they're still sealed inside an anti-static bag. I thought that was the manufacture's doing, actually.

 

[Solema]

Yeah, mine were in sealed anti-static bags as well, and the packing paper was "molded" and not just flat sheets of paper, sort of like fat cardboard, so they should be fine.

 

[killster1]

mine from newegg had peanuts and paper packing.. the one from chief value had only paper.. im not to worried but wont be deleting important files off my other drives anytime soon.. so no one knows which partition would be fastest i guess i can test them and find out if it even is much of diff.. only reason i ask is i saw a guy use only 40gb per drive and made super fast drive aray

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: the unknown
The OEM 640gig drive I received from newegg was not bare;they're still sealed inside an anti-static bag. I thought that was the manufacture's doing, actually.

that is 'bare'

 

[zod96]

I was thinking about getting the WD 640 to replace my samsung spinpoint T drive. I ran HDtach and here's what I got Ramdon Access 18.8 and average read was 66.3 megs and burst speed was 212 megs. I have no idea if that's good or bad. But would the WD 640 be better than that? And would it be as quiet or quieter than my samsung drive..

 

[gigahertz20]

I'll be getting mine in 2 days from CA even though I live in PA, I'll post my benchmarks and everything else and all of us can compare.

 

[jrichrds]

Originally posted by: zod96
I was thinking about getting the WD 640 to replace my samsung spinpoint T drive. I ran HDtach and here's what I got Ramdon Access 18.8 and average read was 66.3 megs and burst speed was 212 megs. I have no idea if that's good or bad. But would the WD 640 be better than that? And would it be as quiet or quieter than my samsung drive..

On my WD6400AAKS-00A7B0 Firmware 01.03B01 (March '08 mfg date)
HDTach:
Random access: 12.7ms
Burst Speed: 234.8MB/s
Average read: 93.9MB/s
Sequential read speed range is about 120MB/s to 48MB/s

This is on an nForce520LE (equiv. to nForce 405/430) chipset motherboard with nVidia SATA-IDE driver v6.99 in WinXP SP2

 

[bryanW1995]

I got random access at 15.6 ms but avg read 96.1. burst speed 241.8 MB/s. Sequential read high about 126, low about 53, cpu usage 2%. I did notice while running hd tune that I'm in udma mode 5 instead of 6, however. maybe that's my sata cable?

using hdtune 2.55 I got 91.3 MB/sec avg, 15.1ms access time, burst rate 150.6 MB/sec CPU Usage 25.9%.

running on an ip35 pro bios 16, x3350@3.6, xp sp3.