So I just received my long awaited WD6400AAKS.
It has a manufacture date of May 9th 2008, thus fresh off the boat.
First thing that caught my eye was the firmware, 75A7B vs. 00A7B for every other WD6400AAKS that I've seen.
No big deal I thought, off to the races...
...average transfer rate is slightly lower than expected, but the access time is horrible. Obviously WD got a little crazy with the Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM), but we can fix that
That's slightly better!Sub-12ms
Access time aside, I'm not yet impressed since my (also just received) Seagate 7200.11 500GB appears to be slightly faster.
This was done on a GB 965P-DS3 v3.3, which uses the ICH8.
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