Which WD drives are single platter

[OlafSicky]

I would like to know which WD drives are single platter, I can't seem to find any reliable info out there.
It looks like the 500gig ones might be. With the new 6g drives i don't know if they changed the platter count. Anyone?

 

[tweakboy]

NONE, unless they have a old 120GB or 80GB single platter.


You want single platter,, try Samsung F4 320GB ....


For now...

 

[tweakboy]

Older drives.. WD now makes 2TB you know,, technology has come. So if you want a single platter know, the space might not be what you want it to be.

You can try a F3 1TB if u like... let us know..

 

[OlafSicky]

I read that the 500 gig blue might be s p

 

[groberts101]

last I looked 500GB was the largest single platter available from any mfgr. So 1TB would have 2, 2TB would have 4, etc.

I know for fact that the 500GB Blacks are singles and would guess that about any other top line models from various vendors would be too.

 

[Zap]

last I looked 500GB was the largest single platter available from any mfgr.

Time for you to look again.

Samsung F4 drives have 667GB platters. So far the 320GB version is 7200RPM (uses one side of platter) and the others are 5400RPM.

Hitachi has some 667GB platters in 5400RPM drives, and their 3TB 7200RPM drive uses 600GB platters (don't know if short stroked 667GB).

The WD 3TB 5400RPM drive has 750GB platters. :awe:

Now, if only Samsung would make a 1280GB two platter four head 7200RPM drive for really cheap... would be a monster drive to short stroke! :thumbsup:

 

[SickBeast]

I read that the 500 gig blue might be s p

This. There are no absolute guarantees with WD. You need to check the date it was manufactured, and confirm things online.

I recently tried to RMA my hard drive through WD. I was less than two weeks out of warranty coverage, and the best they could do was offer me a new drive at a "discount", which was in reality the street price. :thumbsdown::thumbsdown:

My drive was a single platter 320gb 3200AAKS drive BTW.

 

[Soulkeeper]

This is the single best resource i've found for platter count/density.

http://rml527.blogspot.com/2010/09/hdd-platter-capacity-database.html


Also if you email western digital they will tell you how many platters are in a specific drive.

 

[Dahak]

Using that database, just randomly picking some of the drives, it looks like the 500gb and lower are usually single platter, in both the blue and black drives

Odd that WD no longer lists the heads / platters any more the had used to

 

[groberts101]

Time for you to look again.

Samsung F4 drives have 667GB platters. So far the 320GB version is 7200RPM (uses one side of platter) and the others are 5400RPM.

Hitachi has some 667GB platters in 5400RPM drives, and their 3TB 7200RPM drive uses 600GB platters (don't know if short stroked 667GB).

The WD 3TB 5400RPM drive has 750GB platters. :awe:

Now, if only Samsung would make a 1280GB two platter four head 7200RPM drive for really cheap... would be a monster drive to short stroke! :thumbsup:

Thanks for sharing, Zap. Learned something new today.

And since you appear to be so unbiased and accurate most of the time around here.. I'm not gonna even bother to double check those statements for once. lol

 

[OlafSicky]

the 640 and 500 are the same price so i have no idea what to do. Does anyone know any benchmarks of the new 640 vs 500 black vs 500 blue? I need to buy 4 of these so don't want to make a mistake

 

[alexruiz]

This is the single best resource i've found for platter count/density.

http://rml527.blogspot.com/2010/09/hdd-platter-capacity-database.html


Also if you email western digital they will tell you how many platters are in a specific drive.

Winner!
That site is very helpful.

Back to the question, the latest caviar 500GB were single platter. However, because WD keeps the same model number for a dirve regardless of technology, it is a matter of suffix hunting. The 00V1A0 suffix is single platter for sure