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Battle of the 4 TB NAS Drives: WD Red and Seagate NAS HDD Face-Offby Ganesh T S on 9/4/2013 6:00 AM EST
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Rick83 - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkI think the Re at least is only relevant when you are space or controller constrained, as otherwise getting a second cheaper disk is probably going to give better speed and reliability on average.
Generally, I'd have preferred a comparison with the cheaper drives, as I don't see the point of spending more on something that will probably have the same observed failure rates in real usage, and will saturate Gbit LAN when streaming
Of course, if you commit to only a 2-bay NAS, then it might pay off to go with disks with slightly tighter tolerances and more thorough QA, but once you hit 4+ bays, there's rarely a reason to not just throw redundancy at the problem. Reply
colleenames - Thursday, September 05, 2013 - linkhy Reply
VMguy - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkExcellent review. Very helpful for allowing us to select drives to target specific workloads in smaller (or budget constrained) environments.
Are you planning to continue this style of review with other ESATA/SAS drives such as the Constellation.2? Those drives seem to enjoy wider OEM support and are in the same price range as the Se/Re.
Thanks! Reply
VMguy - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkEr, sorry. that should have read Constellation ES.3 Reply
edlee - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkI wish you did a temperature torture test, would have loved to see the results. Reply
arthur449 - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkRunning the hard drive(s) at temperatures beyond their stated maximum simply decreases their lifespan; it won't cause a dramatic failure or lead to an escape scenario for the magic smoke within the drive. At least, not for the duration that Ganesh T S devoted to this comparison. Reply
tuxRoller - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkI thought Goggle's data showed this (higher temperature implies lower lifecycle) to be false? Reply
bobbozzo - Thursday, September 05, 2013 - linkGoogle said that temperature variations WITHIN A NORMAL DATACENTER ENVIRONMENT did not noticably affect drive failure rates.
e.g. none were overheating. Reply
dingetje - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkwould like to see the plattercount of the 4tb red confirmed Reply
ganeshts - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkConfirmed to be four 1 TB platters. Reply
dingetje - Thursday, September 05, 2013 - linkthanks Ganesh Reply
Arbie - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkIgnorant here, but I want to raise the issue. In casual research on a home NAS w/RAID I ran across a comment that regular drives are not suitable for that service because of their threshhold for flagging errors. IIRC the point was that they would wait longer to do so, and in a RAID situation that could make eventual error recovery very difficult. Drives designed for RAID use would flag errors earlier. I came away mostly with the idea that you should only build a NAS / RAID setup with drives (eg the WD Red series) designed for that.
Is this so? Reply
fackamato - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkArbie, good point. You're talking about SCTERC. Some consumer drives allow you to alter that timeout, some don't. Reply
brshoemak - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkA VERY broad and simplistic explanation is that "RAID enabled" drives will limit the amount of time they spend attempting to correct an error. The RAID controller needs to stay in constant contact with the drives to make sure the arrays integrity is intact.
A normal consumer drive will spend much more time trying to correct an internal error. During this time, the RAID controller cannot talk to the drive because it is otherwise occupied . Because the drive is no longer responding to requests from the RAID controller (as it's now doing it's own thing), the controller drops the drive out of the array - which can be a very bad thing.
Different ERC (error recovery control) methods like TLER and CCTL limit the time a drive spends trying to correct the error so it will be able to respond to requests from the RAID controller and ensure the drive isn't dropped from the array.
Basically a RAID controller is like "yo dawg, you still there?" - With TLER/CCTL the drive's all like "yeah I'm here" so everything is cool. Without TLER the drive might just be busy fixing the toilet and takes too long to answer so the RAID controller just assumes no one is home and ditches its friend. Reply
tjoynt - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkbrshoemak, that was the clearest and most concise (not to mention funniest) explanation of TLER/CCTL that I've come across. For some reason, most people tend to confuse things and make it more complicated than it is. Reply
ShieTar - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkI can't really follow that reasoning, maybe I am missing something. First off, error checking should in general be done by the RAID system, not by the drive electronic. Second off, you can always successfully recover the RAID after replacing one single drive. So the only way to run into a problem is not noticing a damage to one drive before a second drive is also damaged. I've been using cheap drives in RAID-1 configurations for over a decade now, and while several drives have died in that period, I've never had a RAID complain about not being able to restore.
Maybe it is only relevant on very large RAID seeing very heavy use? I agree, I'd love to hear somebody from AT comment on this risk. Reply
DanNeely - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - link"you can always successfully recover the RAID after replacing one single drive."
This isn't true. If you get any errors during the rebuilt and only had a single redundancy drive for the data being recovered the raid controller will mark the array as unrecoverable. Current drive capacities are high enough that raid5 has basically been dead in the enterprise for several years due to the risk of losing it all after a single drive failure being too high. Reply
Rick83 - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkIf you have a home usage scenario though, you can schedule surface scans to run every other day, in that case this becomes essentially a non-issue, At worst you'll lose a handful of KB or so.
And of course you have backups to cover anything going wrong on a separate array.
Of course, going RAID 5 beyond 6 disks is being slightly reckless, but that's still 20TB.
By the time you manage that kind of data, ZFS is there for you. Reply
Dribble - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkMy experience for home usage is raid 1, or no raid at all and regular backups is best. Raid 5 is too complex for it's own good and never seems to be as reliable or repair like it's meant too. Because data is spread over several disks if it gets upset and goes wrong it's very hard to repair and you can loose everything. Also because you think you are safe you don't back up as often as you should so you suffer the most.
Raid 1 or no raid means a single disk has a full copy of the data so is most likely to work if you run a disk repair program over it. No raid also focuses the mind on backups so if it goes chances are you'll have a very recent backup and loose hardly any data. Reply
tjoynt - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - link++ this too. If you *really* need volume sizes larger than 4TB (the size of a single drive or RAID-1), you should bite the bullet and get a pro-class raid-6 or raid-10 system or use a software solution like ZFS or Windows Server 2012 Storage Space (don't know how reliable that is though). Don't mess with consumer-level striped-parity RAID: it will fail when you most need it. Even pro-class hardware fails, but it does so more gracefully, so you can usually recover your data in the end. Reply
Gigaplex - Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - linkAvoid Storage Spaces from Windows. It's an unproven and slow "re-imagination" of RAID as Microsoft likes to call it. The main selling point is flexibility of adding more drives, but that feature doesn't work as advertised because it doesn't rebalance. If you avoid adding more drives over time it has no benefits over conventional RAID, is far slower, and has had far less real world testing on it. Reply
Bob Todd - Monday, September 09, 2013 - linkFor home use I've gone from RAID 5 to pooling + snapshot parity (DriveBender and SnapRAID respectively). It's still one big ass pool so it's easy to manage, I can survive two disks failing simultaneously with no data loss, and even in the event of a disaster where 3+ fail simultaneously I'll only lose whatever data was on the individual disks that croaked. Storage Spaces was nice in theory, but the write speed for the parity spaces is _horrendous_, and it's still striped so I'd risk losing everything (not to mention expansion in multiples of your column size is a bitch for home use). Reply
coolviper777 - Tuesday, October 01, 2013 - linkIf you have a good hardware raid card, with BBU and memory, and decent drives, then I think Raid 5 works just fine for home use.
I currently have a Raid 5 array using a 3Ware 9560SE Raid card, consisting of 4 x 1.5TB WD Black drives. This card has battery backup and onboard memory. My RAID 5 array works beautifully for my home use. I ran into an issue with a drive going bad. I was able to get a replacement, and the rebuild worked well. There's an automatic volume scan once a week, and I've seen it fix a few error quite a while ago. But nothing very recent.
I get tremendous speed out of my Raid5, and even boot my Windows7 OS from a partition on the Raid 5. Probably, eventually move that to a SSD, but they're still expensive for the size I need for the C: drive.
My biggest problem with Raid1 is that it's hugely wasteful in terms of disk space, and it can be slower than just a single drive. I can understand for mission critical stuff, Raid5 might give issues. However, for home use, if you combine true hardware Raid5 with backup of important files, I think it's a great solution in terms of reliability and performance. Reply
tjoynt - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - link++ this. At work we *always* use raid-6: nowadays single drive redundancy is a disaster just waiting to happen. Reply
brshoemak - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - link"First off, error checking should in general be done by the RAID system, not by the drive electronic."
The "should in general" port is where the crux of the issue lies. A RAID controller SHOULD takeover the error-correcting functions if the drive itself is having a problem - but it doesn't do it exclusively, it lets the drives have a first go at it. A non-ERC/TLER/CCTL drive will keep working on the problem for too long and not pass the reigns to the RAID controller as it should.
Also, RAID1 is the most basic RAID level in terms of complexity and I wouldn't have any qualms about running consumer drives in a consumer setting - as long as I had backups. But deal with any RAID level beyond RAID1 (RAID10/6), especially those that require parity data, and you could be in for a world of hurt if you use consumer drives. Reply
Egg - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkNo. Hard drives have, for a very very long time, included their own error checking and correcting codes, to deal with small errors. Ever heard of bad blocks?
RAID 1 exists to deal more with catastrophic failures of entire drives. Reply
tjoynt - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkRAID systems can't do error checking at that level because they don't have access to it: only the drive electronics do.
The problems with recovering RAID arrays don't usually show up with RAID-1 arrays, but with RAID-5 arrays, because you have a LOT more drives to read.
I swore off consumer level raid-5 when my personal raid-5 (on an Intel Matrix RAID-5 :P) dropped two drives and refused to rebuild with them even though they were still perfectly functional. Reply
Rick83 - Thursday, September 05, 2013 - linkJust fix it by hand - it's not that difficult. Of course, with pseudo hardware RAID, you're buggered, as getting the required access to the disk, and forcing partial rebuilds isn't easily possible.
I've had a second disk drop out on me once, and I don't recall how exactly I ended up fixing it, but it was definitely possible. I probably just let the drive "repair" the unreadable sectors by writing 512 rubbish bytes to the relevant locations, and tanked the loss of those few bytes, then rebuilt to the redundancy disk.
So yeah, there probably was some data loss, but bad sectors aren't the end of the world.
And by using surface scans you can make the RAID drop drives with bad sectors at the first sign of an issue, then resync and be done with it. 3-6 drive RAID 5 is perfectly okay, if you only have intermediate availability requirements. For high availability RAID 6/RAID 10 arrays with 6-12 disks are a better choice. Reply
mooninite - Thursday, September 05, 2013 - linkIntel chipsets do not offer hardware RAID. The RAID you see is purely software. The Intel BIOS just formats your hard drive with Intel's IMSM (Intel Matrix Storage Manager) format. The operating system has to interpret the format and do all the RAID parity/stripe calculations. Consider it like a file system.
Calling Intel's RAID "hardware" or "pseudo-hardware" is a misconception I'd like to see die. :) Reply
mcfaul - Tuesday, September 10, 2013 - link"First off, error checking should in general be done by the RAID system, not by the drive electronic. "
You need to keep in mind how drives work. they are split into 512b/4k sectors... and each sector has a significant chunk of ECC at the end of the sector, so all drives are continually doing both error checking and error recovery on every single read they do.
plus, if it is possible to quickly recover an error, then obviously it is advantageous for the drive to do this, as there may not be a second copy of the data available (i.e. when rebuilding a RAID 1 or RAID 5 array) Reply
joelypolly - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkWith a difference of 1 to 2 watts for the Seagate I fail to see how that would be too much of a cause for concern for cooling systems? Even with a 5 disk array it should still be under 10 watts difference in the most demanding circumstances and about 5 watts on average. Reply
owan - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkI was thinking about that. 1W difference has got to be negligible for any desktop based system. Even 3-4W differences, while large on the relative scale, are small in the absolute sense. I don't see how you could make the statement "if you want more performance, Seagate, if you need cool and quiet, WD" Is there no other reason to pick one drive over the other besides a 1W performance consumption difference? Reply
glugglug - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkIt is hard to see the relative differences quickly switching between the performance graphs for the different drives because some of them are on different scales for each drive. Is there any way the graph scales can be made uniform? Reply
ganeshts - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkCan you let me know the specific graphs you are seeing the problem in? The numbers are also reported by HD Tune Pro on the side.. Reply
glugglug - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkThe random read and random write graphs.
I can see the scale on the side, but for example the random read graph has the max Y scale value at 50ms for the WD SE drive, 100ms for the Red drive and WD RE and 200 ms for the Seagate. At first glance, it looks like the Seagate is owning because of the scale -- it requires extra thought to figure out what the graph would look like on the same scale for comparison. Reply
ganeshts - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkGot it. From what I remember, HD Tune Pro doesn't give user control over graph scales. But, I will see what can be done for future articles. Reply
ZRohlfs - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkIf you look closely at those graphs you can see some outliers that are very high on the graph. They are away from the statistical clump but they cause the graph to have the scales that they do. Reply
carlwu - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkCan anyone comment on Seagate reliability as of late? Their 1TB drive fiasco left a bad taste my mouth. Reply
dawza - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkThe Seagate NAS HDDs seem quite good in terms of reliability thus far. I have a 3 TB and 4 TB in my WHS (JBOD) and they've made it past the crucial 1 month mark without issues. But as mentioned in the review, these haven't been on the market very long.
These are the first Seagates I've purchased in years due to past issues you alluded to. Reply
RealBeast - Thursday, September 05, 2013 - linkCarlwu, I had that thought also but set up one NAS with 8 x 3TB Seagate 7200rpm (the ST3000DM001) in RAID 6 and have had no issues for the six months they have run 24/7. Fingers crossed. Reply
zlandar - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkWould really like a comparison in a RAID-5 setup with 4 drives since that's what I use for media storage.
Tell Seagate to send you 3 more drives! Reply
otherwise - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkDoes anyone know how read patrolling factors into usage numbers? There is no way I would come even close to 150 TB/yr in a home NAS with my own data, but with ZFS read patrolling going on in the background I don't exactly know what the true load is. Reply
bobbozzo - Thursday, September 05, 2013 - linkI don't really understand these read or read/write ratings... iirc, Google's data said reads and writes do not affect failure rate on hard drives. (SSD's are obviously a different story, for writes). Reply
htspecialist - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkI have had good experience with Hitachi drives in NAS use. HGST has both consumer class and enterprise class 7200 rpm 4tb drives capable of NAS use. Any plans to include the HGST in the review evaluation of 4tb NAS capable drives? Reply
wintermute000 - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkyah I've had several WD and Seagate failures over the last 6-7 years of running 4 drives in a RAID5 but no Hitachi failures, running all hitachi now Reply
iwod - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkTo me, Speed doesn't matter any more. Not for NAS Market. Since even the slowest HDD will saturate 1Gbits Ethernet in Sequential Read Write, and Random Read Write are slow as well as mostly limited by the NAS CPU as well.
I want Price and Disk Size. Reliability is also a concern as well but since most HDD will just fail in one way or another over time It is best to have something like Synology where you over a number of disk you could have up to 2 HDD failure. Reply
tuxRoller - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkAre the idle power numbers in the chart correct?
It looks like the decimal point was pushed to right... Reply
KAlmquist - Thursday, September 05, 2013 - linkThe power numbers are wall power, so it includes power supply losses and the power consumed by the LenovoEMC PX2-300D, in addition to the power consumed by the hard drive. So the absolute values aren't useful (unless you own a PX2-300D), but the numbers do show which drives consume less power. Reply
mcfaul - Tuesday, September 10, 2013 - linkseconded, i have 32 x 3tb drives.. the heat adds up.... Reply
mcfaul - Tuesday, September 10, 2013 - link"We have also been very impressed with WD's response to various user complaints about the first generation Red drives."
Can you expand on what the complaints were, and what WD have done about them? I've only heard good things about the Red drives Reply
Wwhat - Tuesday, September 10, 2013 - linkDoing a 'torture test' means you use them a lot constantly though, not that you put them on a burner to see what happens.
And frankly a drive should adhere to its stated lifetime/performance somewhat regardless how heavy you use it.
And don't forget that all drives unless powered down spin constantly anyway.
And quite a few NAS boxes for the home have so-so cooling, so it would be valid to test how hot HD's get during intensive (but normal) use. Reply
chubbypanda - Thursday, September 26, 2013 - linkGanesh, rated reliability for WD Se is also 1 per 10E15 (see http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/SpecSheet/EN... ), same as Re. Reply
Oller - Friday, October 11, 2013 - linkI am planning to buy a Drobo 5N as a Plex video server and also for TimeMachine backup. That would seem to require limited data transfer.
From the review it would seem that the Red is just as good as the RE and at nearly half the price would be the better choice.
Do you agree that the Red is a better choice than the RE for my needs? Reply
chrcoluk - Thursday, November 17, 2016 - linkSome bait and switching going on.
I own 4 WD red's all 3TB versions.
First 2 purchased 2 years ago, they report NCQ supported, 4k sectors, security mode, and have no drive parking.
Brought 2 more yesterday. Dont support NCQ (wtf?), drive parking same as green drives, one is bigger than the other has a few extra LBA blocks and reports an extra gig size and 512byte sectors instead of 4k.
Totally bizzare. Reply


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ltcommanderdata - Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - linkI'm guessing this means that the Haswell MacBook Pro refresh won't be coming until the fall then instead of launching alongside Haswell mid-year. Reply
A5 - Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - linkThat's normal. Apple doesn't really have to launch on Intel's schedule. Reply
Silenus - Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - link"As high DPI displays become more commonplace.........."
Please....please let this happen. Sooner rather than later. I am dying for high DPI to come to other laptops, and especially to desktop monitors. Reply
nerd1 - Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - link1080p 13.3" IPS displays are already mainstream among high-end laptops, and even 1080p 11.6" IPS displays are quite common (samsung, asus, acer....)
Enough is enough. I'm perfectly fine using 15" 1080p laptop - Yes many of my friends have so-called 'Retina' MBP, and I DID compare them side-by-side. Reply
nathanddrews - Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - linkYes, we should really stop chasing pixel density since you are fine with it. I'm glad we got that out of the way! The industry may now cease in this effort.
In all seriousness, I really do hope that the industry continues to push pixel density. It will force display makers to innovate ways to shrink pixels, force software makers to build better scaling interfaces, and force GPU makers to get more aggressive with their designs. We'll all benefit from it in more ways than simply having prettier screens. Reply
nerd1 - Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - linkToo high PPI is just a waste of resource and no more than a marketing gimmick. Your eyesight is determined by how much your eye can resolve. If you have 2.0/2.0 eyesight, you can resolve roughly up to 300ppi at 10inch viewing distance.
And you don't view laptop screen that close. Recent study says the mean viewing distance acquired from 206 University employees is 68cm, or 26 inches. This means even if you have 2.0 eyesight, you cannot resolve more than 115PPI in standard viewing distance. Half that number if you have only 1.0/1.0 eyesight.
That roughly equals 15.6" 1600*900 display, or 13.3" 1366*768 display. Reply
tdktank59 - Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - linkWhile I understand that, the higher the density to higher the resolution can be meaning more screen real estate. As a developer programming on a 720p screen sucks since I have gotten used to 1080p and higher.
Ive gotten used to seeing SOOO much screen that going smaller is not an option. I feel 2560x1600 (or 1440) is about right for anything 17"-~30" and then below 17 should at least be 1080. Reply
Death666Angel - Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - linkHigher DPI will also help things look decent at non-native resolution. Reply
nerd1 - Thursday, February 14, 2013 - linkYou shouldn't use non-native resolution at all. The UI should scale to correct size instead. Reply
Death666Angel - Thursday, February 14, 2013 - linkHuh? I mean, I'm all for 1080p gaming and 1440p gaming on extreme settings with every game on every device I own @ 60fps. But I don't see it happening. So I want the ability to play an older game with full resolution (1080p on a tablet) and newer, more performance hungry games with 720p.
That's got nothing to go with UI scaling, but with hardware power not being high enough in all instances. :) Reply
phillyry - Sunday, February 24, 2013 - linkI've refuted it as being a marketing gimmick later on in the forums but your argument that it's a waste of resources could be valid.
It definitely takes more hardware to drive higher res displays, which in turn uses more resources (in terms of electricity).
The constant increasing of technology and whether it is done at the expense of the environment as an entire other debate. Reply
EnzoFX - Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - linkNo, enough is never enough. That's the whole basis of technology. Furthermore, there are other aspects to Apple's retina displays that make it better than most of what's out there, like how the screen is closer to the glass, or how it's wide-gamut or calibrated. If you can't tell the difference between them and other offerings, good for you. It means you don't need it, it however does not mean other people don't, or worse yet, that it shouldn't be a limit to be pushed. Reply
nerd1 - Thursday, February 14, 2013 - linkHigh resolution display is good, but you will have diminishing returns after some point. Your eye is the limiting factor here, and you must either have a extraordinary eyesight (like some native tribes) or put your eye VERY close to the screen. Yes, you can see the resolution difference if you really try to (I did) but that's more like the top speed of cars - It won't matter weather your car has 180mph or 250mph top speed, if you cannot speed more than 60mph anyway.
Also everyone EXCEPT APPLE has been making laptops with quality display. Sony have been using wide gamut (~100% adobe color space), high resolution (13.3" FHD) LCD for their Z series laptop for years.
Dell has been using RGB LED lcd (>100% gamut) on their laptops for years too. Samsung put PLS lcd on their series 9 laptops for quite a while. Lenovo has made laptops with IPS display for a very long time. Reply
darwinosx - Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - linkThen you seriously need to get your eyes checked. Reply
piiman - Saturday, February 16, 2013 - linkAnd you need to look into why you buy marketing hype so easily. Reply
phillyry - Sunday, February 24, 2013 - linkIt's not just marketing.
When I go back to using my iPhone 3GS after having gotten used to an iPhone 5 and iPad 3 it pains me to look at the thing - I notice pixels every single time.
I even notice them on my MacBook Air now, at 1440 x 900. Not everybody keeps their laptop and 26 inches away from. By the way that is the median, not the range. Reply
KPOM - Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - linkIt also looks like the dual-core 3.0GHz i7 upgrade option for the 13" is a new chip:
http://ark.intel.com/products/71255/Intel-Core-i7-... Reply
00DC2TW - Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - linkIs the 2.6 new? Reply
KPOM - Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - linkI don't think so. Intel has offered a 2.6GHz i5 from the beginning. They also offer a 2.8GHz version that's in the Windows PC I use at the office. I'm guessing Apple just decided to do a spec bump to make it more attractive. I'm a bit surprised they didn't just do that with the $1499 model, too. Reply
00DC2TW - Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - linkI think it is new... I think its this one https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rl... Reply
00DC2TW - Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - linkedit wrong link: this one http://ark.intel.com/products/72164/Intel-Core-i5-... Reply
Null Pointer - Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - linkI assume the upgraded 15" now comes with a i7-3740QM, not a i7-3820QM. The 2.8 GHz upgrade is probably for a i7-3840QM. Reply
00DC2TW - Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - linklooks like I will be going to the apple store to return my 13" retina and get $300 back and a free upgrade! Reply
KitsuneKnight - Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - linkIf it's within 14 days of purchase, you can just call and have the difference refunded. No return-rebuy cycle needed. Reply
00DC2TW - Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - linkwhy would I just get a refund? the processor spec was bumped also. Reply
KitsuneKnight - Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - linkAh, assumed it was the base model. The 'free upgrade' bit makes a lot more sense in this context :P Reply
solarisking - Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - linkNow that I have a rMBP I'm wondering when aftermarket SSD upgrades are going to be available. 256GB is a little confining. I need that 512GB upgrade! Problem is it's a proprietary part, as I'm sure all of you reading this know. Reply
00DC2TW - Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - linkThere are already upgrades and have been upgrades for a while
checkout macsale.com Reply
00DC2TW - Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - linkmacsales.com Reply
solarisking - Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - link$580 for a 480GB ssd. Ouch. Never mind... Reply
00DC2TW - Friday, February 15, 2013 - linkYeah, prices are still pretty high, because they have no competition at the moment Reply
zorxd - Friday, February 15, 2013 - linkHigh resolution displays aren't that expensive to make.
They are just not that common because most people are fine with their 1366x768 15" laptop. Reply
trajan2448 - Saturday, February 16, 2013 - linkI hope they release another 17" with all the bells and whistles for power users. Many of my friends in the music business use these. Here's hoping. Reply
Tuffrabbit - Monday, February 18, 2013 - linkThanks trajan, I second that... My 17" MBP is still working great, but would like another, 1,920 x 1,200 works great for me (16:10 Aspect Ratio)... But would certainly try a Retina at 17"... Reply
jed22281 - Friday, February 22, 2013 - linkSigh, wish I'd waited a bit longer, I ordered mine approx. Dec 16th, didnt get till 28/29th IIRC... :( Reply
Jim Maney - Friday, March 08, 2013 - linkMy eyesight is terrible compared to what many of you are talking about. I currently use Windows on a 1366 * 768 - 18.5 inch desktop. I could use fonts that are even larger. Had to stop using a Mac, as the fonts were too small. For me, please, make all the pixels you want, so when I cut it down to half, it won't be fuzzy. We all win! Reply


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the best time for me is when it is ready to be carved. i throw very dry, no splash pan, so i cover the freshly made pot with a colored slip while it is still on the wheel. yes, there might be some trimming but i usually throw and trim at the same time so i can run the slip almost to the bottom without worring about trimming it off later. i leave the pot on the bat, not cutting it off, until it pops off on its own. just then it is ready to trim a foot and carve something through the cover of slip.
if any of you are familiar with charles counts' book "pottery workshop" from the 70s, you see what i mean.
What is your favorite time of the process?
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Posted 21 November 2012 - 06:05 PM
"putting you down does not raise me up."
Posted 23 November 2012 - 06:57 PM
I like unloading the kiln or pit or saggar.
Derek VonDrehle
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Posted 24 November 2012 - 06:21 PM
Having just sold my first piece - perhaps the sale is now my favourite time. LOL.
Definitely the kiln opening after glazing.
Definitely the kiln opening after glazing.
Posted 25 November 2012 - 09:27 AM
I loved it after i clean my studio and am ready to start a new project. P.S. i also hate glazing. Too bad i can't hire a glazing boy.
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Posted 23 April 2013 - 07:37 AM
I should add I just retired, so this is something I will be doing as a hobby, I've taken studio classes many times over the past 40 yrs. and enjoyed it.
Posted 23 April 2013 - 08:16 AM
Posted 23 April 2013 - 08:34 AM
Posted 23 April 2013 - 08:46 AM
Gil raises a very good point. If you have to buy a replacement wheel after a few years, you really haven't saved money. You've bought a headache... two potentially.
My initial thought is that if you are truly in need of a full horsepower motor on your wheel, you should not be seeking a bargain. My understanding of higher horsepower on different wheels is primarily there for centering weight capacity. If you are putting your wheel under the strain of centering 100+ pounds, I would encourage you to invest in a higher end product.
If cost is the most important factor: I can't speak to the Speedball wheels, but I can point you in the direction of a Pacifica GT400. It is about $150 more and a half horse less than the Speedball version you're currently considering. We have 12 of these at my studio. Under HEAVY daily use by hundreds of students and professional potters alike, these tend to hold up for about 8 years. If you're buying strictly for personal use, it should live a lot longer than that.
The GT400 is certainly not as nice of a wheel as the Brent CXC or the VL Whisper we also have at the studio, or my Soldner S Series that I have at home, but for the price it could be a good fit for you.
Good Luck!
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Posted 23 April 2013 - 09:08 AM
Sorry new to this site, I should have given more info. about my needs.
I just retired, so this is something I will be doing as a hobby, I've taken studio classes many times on and off over the past 40 yrs. and loved it, I'm not good but hope that practice will help. Moved to NC and cannot find a studio nearby.
I don't plan on making anything very large or heavy. I thought this might be a good starting wheel and see if I'm spending my time doing this and than move up to a Thomas Stuart which is my first choice.
Posted 23 April 2013 - 03:34 PM
I would spend some time looking for a used wheel thats better quaility for less money
Used wheels are usually just fine and about 2/3 less cost.
Posted 23 April 2013 - 03:53 PM
"But it does move," said Galileo under his breath.
Posted 23 April 2013 - 03:57 PM
Neil Estrick
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Owner, Neil Estrick Gallery, LLC
Posted 23 April 2013 - 10:15 PM
Around here (Chicago area) used wheels are hard to find. And most that do show up are really old, need quite a bit of maintenance, and are overpriced. In my experience, most good used wheels go to someone without ever being advertised. Get a good new wheel. It will be the only wheel you'll ever need to buy. No sense throwing your money at something just to replace it later. Save another $300 and get the TS you want.
My wife and I also live in the Chicago area. We were faced with the same dilemma. We ended up buying a new Skutt wheel (their cheapest model) and have been very happy with it.
Posted 24 April 2013 - 06:21 AM
You can of course, make beautiful round pots without a wheel.
You use coils and hand-build them.
It is still done in e.g. many parts of Africa, where people make absolutely stunning pots, big and small.
Hand-built pots often look better than a lot of pots that I have seen that are made on a wheel.
(and if I step on some toes here, so be it).
I have made some hand-built pots myself and I found it a very rewarding experience.
Image below is kindly used from the site of: Missionnaires d'Afrique, http://www.mafrome.org/batwa_elias.htm
Posted 24 April 2013 - 06:44 AM
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