B. A. Kenney Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Hello, I would like to request that the AIDA64 program provide the necessary information for Western Digital hard drives just like it provides information for Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate, etc hard drives. All of the brand (except WD) displays hard drive name, codename, form factor, access speed, speed, cache, etc (see pic.) It would also be nice if AIDA64 can also offer information on noise level just like the picture attached shown. I hope the next beta or major release will feature WD hard drives and make the info more accessible just like other branded hard drive. Note that I used Hard Disk Sentinel 3.60 PRO to retrieve such information. Thanks, JBin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiery Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 WD has a habit of assigning the same model ID to different products. And that makes it impossible to build an accurate WD hard disk drive database. We currently have no plans to extend our hard disk drive database with further fields. Regards, Fiery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squall Leonhart Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 Thats not the case, WD always changes the last 5 digits of the full product number when the sku changes the real problem is retailers and etailers tend to omit those numbers on product listings to keep the consumer in the dark. tbh, WD's sku numbering is less complicated than seagates. op, this site is tracking hdd platters, cache and capacity via sku numbering http://rml527.blogspot.com/2010/10/hdd-platter-database-western-digital-35.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiery Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 Maybe these days WD have come to their senses and use unique model names for each drive, but it wasn't the case for many years. When we've started to build our hard disk drive database, it was terrible, so we gave up. We may get back to WD drives if they survive the ongoing "who buys who" game in the HDD industry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squall Leonhart Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 i have a 80GB WD drive around here that was made in 2004/2005, even back then the 5 digit sku number was provided. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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