WD My Book VelociRaptor Duo Thunderbolt Enclosure replacement drives
Not really sure where to put this as it isn't entirely Mac specific but there is a lot of experienced and helpful people here so.....
I am considering purchasing a WD 2TB My Book VelociRaptor Duo Thunderbolt Desktop Hard Drive (WDBUWZ0020JBK-NESN) which will serve me well for the immediate future. However my question comes with regard to replacing these drives, within the enclosure, at a later date. I understand the Velociraptor drives are actually 2.5" drives in a 3.5" cooling frame/ice pack. If I'm not mistaken, the Velociraptor drives use "regular" SATA interfaces so the question I have is:
Are the 1TB Velociraptor drives (with the ice pack) exactly the same form factor as "regular" 3.5" drives and thus ENTIRELY interchangeable? i.e. Mounting holes, cable connections, height, etc.
Thank you for any guidance.
From Amazon:
User-serviceable - Want to replace a drive? Simply open the case and exchange the existing drive. If you fill up a drive, you can simply remove it and replace it with a fresh drive and begin saving even more of your creative life.
Q It states that the drives can be replaced. Do the replacement drives have to be VelociRaptors or can they be any 3.5" internal hard drive?
A: I believe they can be any drive as they are extremely easy to replace. Just looking at the drives they are standard 3.5 internal drives.
I have seen this mentioned before, being used for scratch.
I have also seen people use 2 x 1TB SSD Samsung 840 EVO (2 x $440) though not in this case (would be interesting though!)
And you might get the same level of performance from 2 x 4TB drives.
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Hi,
I'm planning to buy a thunderbolt display.Since I have not only apple computers with a thunderbolt port I wonder if it's possible to connect my mac book pro via thunderbolt and a DVI switchbox via a "mini displayport to DVI connector" to the thunderbolt display at the same time. Thunderbolt is a bus architecture. Thus there must be an ingoing and an outgoing port on the display. The rearview of the display I've seen so far don't show this:
If this is not possible then I must question the market chances of this product. Seems as if the product marketing guys exaggerated the launch of the thunderbolt technology.
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AHHH??!!!!!! Was that your original question?? I assumed you were trying to output FROM your computer (MacBook Pro w/ Thunderbolt) to the new display and then OUT to be the video source to a DVI switcher.
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So it seems as if it's not possible to use the thunderbolt display with the mini display port adapter to DVI you've mentioned.
I did not understand that you were trying to use other PC's into a switcher and then THAT Video source to connect INTO the TB display. If THAT is what you're trying to do, then NO.... You can NOT use the new TB Display to be used to display "FROM" a DVI switcher (and also can NOT be used to display from other Non-TB-Apple computers).
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I wonder why apple doesn't state this in their technical descriptions...?
-ais-swiss
Actually, the state that information all over the Tech Specs on the Apple Store website.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC914LL/A?mco=MTY3ODQ5OTY
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Seit eineinhalb Jahren benutze ich das WD Book duo
Seriennummer WUZ234702481
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An den Computern und an der Hardware (Fritz-Box etc.) wurden seit langem keine Veränderungen vorgenommen. Auch anspruchsvolle Software-Installationen wurden nicht durchgeführt. Bis vor ca. 3 Wochen funktionierte der Kontakt mit dem WD Book zuverlässig, wenn auch nicht "rasend schnell". Da der Kopierfehler nun auf allen Computern auftritt, denke ich an einen Fehler des WD-'Books.
Darum frage ich Sie höflich um Ideen!
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Ralf KiekhöferNehme doch bitte mal diesbezüglich Kontakt mit dem Technischen-Support von Western Digital auf. Hier die Nummer :
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Hello,
About 3 weeks ago one of our drive from Xraid failed (5 disks with raid 5) and only today i got the replacement drive (we ordered 4 for bad scenarios). My question remains to just replace the drive as the raid appears as degraded from the raid admin. In the apple manual (http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/xserveraid_userguide.pdf) it says that cannot be replaced in degraded mode because I will loose data. I want to do a full backup first, but need to know all process to replace the new drive. This could not be done as hot spare because i need to change the drive's bay.
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I assume what you're referring to is the statement from page 49 of the manual:
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In my opinion, this is an unsual case of incorrect data in the documentation, or at least it's poorly written.
Yes, if the disk is part of an unprotected RAID set (e.g. RAID 0) then removing a disk is a bad idea.
Yes, if you remove an ACTIVE disk from an degraded RAID set (e.g. a WORKING disk in a mirror or RAID 5 array) then you'll lose data.
However, this disk has failed. It's already been removed from the active array, therefore it doesn't meet either of this criteria. It's not part of any array, so it's 100% safe to remove.
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columbus new boy wrote:
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