Wd360gd driver

If it reoccurs, you will want to copy the data from the drive as quickly as possible and replace it. Support Downloads Knowledge Base. German Spanish Italian French. HGST Support. I had access to the WDGD without problem. I then swapped it back to the original computer and the incessant ticking is gone! Robert M.

The only way to be sure is by running a test. Check the link below. The today's aim is to prove or disprove the press-releases, which is possible only through the tests. The problem is not that simple because the drive is the first in its class, i. There are actually three lines in the press-release we can proceed from - ATA, 8Mb buffer and rpm.

So, here are the photos of the new-comer. The first thing that catches the eye is cooler's developed fins. Well, the design depends mostly on the mechanical part rather than on the electronic one.

All the chips but one are located on the internal side of the board. Here you can see that the buffer size is 64Mbit indeed : But the most interesting thing is outside.

You can see a chip - it is the only chip there - which is located next to the SATA bracket. It's marked Marvell 88iTBC. Only with the more up-to-date interface. Now it's clear why it's placed so close to the connector. I wish there were a normal serial interface realized on the drive's controller. But in general, the drive leaves a pleasant impression. Now comes the most interesting part.

Tests Since the drives belong to the different classes of interfaces, the testbed can't be the same. The test software is standard. The SATA controller comes with the Promise's utility which can switch to different modes of operation, i.

Cache off, and two types of caching - Write back and Write Through. The results for the different modes will be shown on the diagrams only if they are different.

In all other cases we set the Write back mode. In the WinMark the Raptor with any caching enabled leaves behind both drives in any file system, but remember that this test is Seagate's weak point see this review. Well, the diagrams demonstrate it perfectly. Intel IOMeter Now the synthetic tests. Although it has higher scores, the curve actually looks the same as of the WDJB. Well, there is no tag queuing, and the drive can't change the order of execution of instructions.

The diagrams for the Random Write model look so because of the Write back caching enabled these access models were not tested in other modes because we couldn't get the idea of the controller in the beginning. Below are the test results in the patterns which were not used before in the tests, for estimating the drives' performance.