Review 2008

Western Digital a lansat noua serie de hard-disk-uri RE3 SATA destinata segmentului Enterprise, unde fiabilitatea este pe primul loc.


A treia generatie de hard-disk-uri SATA de mare capacitate destinata segmentului enterprise imbunatateste toleranta la socuri si vine cu o noua configuratie electronica care imbunatateste performantele cu 20%, iar mediile cu vibratii puternice performanta poate creste cu pana la 60% fata de generatiile precedente.

Ca o "mostenire" a seriei RE de hard-disk-uri, noile WD RE3 au o durata medie de viata de 1.2 milioane ore, suporta tehnologia native command queuing (NCQ), time limited error recovery (TLER).

WD RE3 Features

Dual processor - Twice the processing power that results in a 20 percent performance improvement over the previous generation.
RAFF technology - Resulting in up to 60 percent performance improvement over previous generation drives, WD's fourth-generation RAFF technology includes sophisticated electronics to monitor the drive and correct both linear and rotational vibration simultaneously, in real time for maximum performance in high vibration environments.
IntelliSeek technology - Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise and vibration in active seek modes without degrading performance.
Multi-axis shock sensor - An additional third sensor has been added to RE3 models to automatically detect the subtlest shock events and compensates to protect the data.
RAID-specific, Time-Limited Error Recovery (TLER) - Prevents drive fallout caused by the extended hard drive error-recovery processes common to desktop drives.
Third-generation dynamic fly height - With this next generation dynamic fly height technology, each read-write head's fly height is adjusted in real time for optimum reliability.
Thermal extended burn-in test - Extended burn-in testing with thermal cycling added to ensure only the most robust drives are produced as RAID Edition.
NoTouch ramp load technology - The recording head never touches the disk media ensuring significantly less wear to the recording head and media as well as better drive protection in transit.

Noile hard-disk-uri WD RE3 sunt disponibile la distribuitori in capacitatile: 500 GB (model WD5002ABYS), 320 GB (model WD3202ABYS) si 250 GB (model WD2502ABYS).

Preturile recomandate de producator sunt: 119$ pentru WD RE3 500 GB , 89$ pentru modelul de 320 GB si 79$ pentru modelul de 250 GB. Drive-urile WD RE3 dispun de o garantie de 5 ani. Mai multe detalii deaspre noile hard-disk-uri pot fi gasite pe pagina producatorului la adresa: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=489.