issue with WD hard drive platter sizes, and suggestion for nehalem server platform?

[yaryaryar]

1st i'd like to say - been a heavy pricespy user for several years, the new site's amazing. the filtering is @#$!)(* impressive imho!

the ability to list hard drives by number of platters is great... there's just a small problem with western digital drives - they use the same model numbers for different sized platters. this is explained pretty well by this guy:
http://yertech.blogspot.com/search/label/H...20Model%20Lists
search for "western digital makes", which appears twice on the page

eg a wd3200aaks could have 2 160gb platters, 1 320gb platter, or a shortstroked 500gb platter (the site ^ linked doesn't list 160gb platter sata drives but ppl wanted to know how to get a single platter 320gb drive when 320gb platters came out and wd3200aaks was discussed quite a bit on tech forums)

wd5000aaks can be 2x250gb, 2x320gb, or 1x500gb

so you should probably remove western digital drives from the platter number search filter in certain cases where platter # is ambiguous, which would be quite a few of their models... wd6400aaks which reliably used dual 320gb platters and 4 heads have appeared in dual 500gb platter 3 head versions according to that ^ website, i guess you'd still call that 2 platter though.

wd7501aals just turned up in a 2 platter filter search, but it can be 3 320gb platter/5 head

another option would be to try and talk the retailers into telling you the full model number,
eg WD3200AAKS-00B3A0 = 320gb platter
WD3200AAKS-00M9A0 = 500gb platter
which would be legendary if even a few retailers would play along for the benefit of the few computer enthusiasts who care =]

respect for even trying it, i've spent hours trying to find out platter sizes for drives at times... i think the site i linked could help, good luck _b






ps: and for lga1156 you need to add the chipset options 3400/3420/3450
3400/3420 chipset page at intel.com
3450 chipset page at intel.com
some boards for example:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList....name=LGA%201156
the 1156 3400/3420/3450 boards are nearly the same but support ECC with 1156 xeons (45nm quad core) and 32nm dual cores

This post has been edited by yaryaryar: Feb 17 2010, 19:30

[yaryaryar]

another small thing - after you click "apply filters" the page scrolls down to the products, which is pretty useful, but if you click a column name (eg Price/GB, or Price) to rearrange the product list the page refreshes and leaves you at the top.

This post has been edited by yaryaryar: Jan 27 2010, 13:54

[johanneshenrysso...]

Hi yaryaryar,

Thanks for your feedback, constructive feedback is always very appreciated.

We are currently debating your suggestions.

[yaryaryar]

thanks, you guys rule

it is also my solemn duty to inform you that you may be cursed.

you have 37 posts, and 37 is the highest prime factor of 666
2x3x3x37=666

also your joined date has "6-12-16" in it
6x6x6=216

of course there's also the slightly satanic avatar, i guess you're ok with it

This post has been edited by yaryaryar: Jan 31 2010, 00:30

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[yaryaryar]

tidied up because i found ecc filters under "more filters"

This post has been edited by yaryaryar: Feb 10 2010, 00:26

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[johanneshenrysso...]

I have notified responsible.

Ps.
Funny thing with the number of posts and views, that's wierd...

[yaryaryar]

ok cool

i tidied up the first post a little, removing comments about ECC & dual-socket 1366, and fixing comments about 3400/3420/3450 chipsets which should be chipset options for lga1156 rather than a new socket option.

i saw you have ECC/registered/unbuffered as filters when you click "more filters" in a ram section... and one socket/two socket is available as an option for lga1366... i'm guessing they were probably there when i first wrote my spiel too

but there seems to be some inconsistency..
using the DDR3 section as an example: a DIMM will either be unbuffered or registered, so selecting the cross option beside registered should be the same as selecting the tick option beside unbuffered.

but selecting "ECC tick" and "Registered cross" and applying filters returns 1 result.
selecting "ECC tick" and "Unbuffered tick" and applying filters returns 4 results.

the three filtering options under compatibility should really be two:

Buffering: Unbuffered, Registered, (Fully Buffered (for DDR2))
ECC: Non-ECC, ECC

or if you wanted to ignore the existence of Non-ECC Registered RAM (forgivable) and make it as simple as possible (which could be worthwhile because it's a confusing area for a lot of people), it could be just:

Compatibility: Unbuffered Non-ECC, Unbuffered ECC, Registered ECC, (Fully Buffered ECC (for DDR2))

This post has been edited by yaryaryar: Feb 17 2010, 19:29