Western Digital Hdds

crazychicken

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Jan 20, 2001
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Which is better? 205BA or WD200?

they are both 20gb 7200rpm.

which one should i keep?

lmk asap

david
 

sharkeeper

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Jan 13, 2001
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The 200BB is a more advanced drive.

The 205BA (I believe) is actually an IBM 22GXP. (If the name says EXPERT not Caviar) These were good drives, albeit much noisier than the newer WD's. They are also slower despite benchmarks showing a good 1.5 ms access time lead.

I'd keep the 200!

Cheers!