Ordered my MP earlier - std across the board apart from airport.
Was thinking about swapping the 320G out for the 500G from my WD external drive.
Just opened it up and the drive is a WD5000YS RE2 Caviar. Seems to be a bit old but was regarded well at the time - 12-15 months ago.
It has 16M buffer and think i saw some numbers around 70M sustained - no idea if this is good compared with the shipping 320G in the MP.
One thing that seems to be a concern is the TLER setting - apparently this drive is not well suited to desktop use and is best for RAID.
So why have they installed it in an external hdd? It may be that TLER has been disabled in the drive and so it has normal desktop error correction.
Does anyone have any experience in this area?
Anyone know how to check the TLER status (and disable if needed) in Mac OS X?
Was thinking about swapping the 320G out for the 500G from my WD external drive.
Just opened it up and the drive is a WD5000YS RE2 Caviar. Seems to be a bit old but was regarded well at the time - 12-15 months ago.
It has 16M buffer and think i saw some numbers around 70M sustained - no idea if this is good compared with the shipping 320G in the MP.
One thing that seems to be a concern is the TLER setting - apparently this drive is not well suited to desktop use and is best for RAID.
So why have they installed it in an external hdd? It may be that TLER has been disabled in the drive and so it has normal desktop error correction.
Does anyone have any experience in this area?
Anyone know how to check the TLER status (and disable if needed) in Mac OS X?