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.
Johnny FTM can you link some urls' with the people who had this resolved with 78xxxx boards. I need to be sure these guys as ASUS send me a working board. I'm the guy who's been posting on the ASUS site about my problems with the drive btw.

I have two 6400AAKS WD drives in RAID0 and I cannot get them to work! I've also tried the 750GB F1 Samsungs

So far I've had the following SN#s
77M0ACKR**** Original Board
77MXACKR**** RMA Board

Someone help!