Quote Originally Posted by jonny_ftm View Post
I wanted to give a feedback on Western Digital hard drives
On the ASUS forums, some people reported bad expierience even with the new Caviar SE16 WD6400 AAKS. It is a new drive based on 320Mb high density plates.

Some people reported it was fixed with new motherboards they received from RMA

It looks like the serial numbers after 78xxxxx are ok (7 for 2007, 8 for month 8, that's august). By the way, they are all 2.00G

In my case, I have a 78xxx series, made in China PCB, and I took a risk buying this disk. It runs so great in my setup

So, this WD/Samsung issues should be abscent on new batches and all with serial numbers after 78xxx

Now, you can throw away your noisy and slow barracuda 7200.11 (they're only good for benches and s**ck in real world applications tests) for a Samsung/WD high performance disk.
Just got my RMA # and gonna get rid of this damn problem once and for all. I love this board! Compared to my Maximus Formula (now Rampage), much better board. I can leave all the voltages (including NB) to stock except CPU @ lowest settings @ 444FSB / 4x1GB 1066MEM + transaction booster enabled -3. No way I could do that on the Maximus.

Now hopefully the fix the S3 Wake for the 45nm chips in the new bios