Wow. Nostalgia... They were insanely reliable/performant drives and after reading enough reviews I couldn't resist back in the day. Regarding benchmarks, they

Wow. Nostalgia... They were insanely reliable/performant drives and after reading enough reviews I couldn't resist back in the day. Regarding benchmarks, they definitely had a bit more pep by the numbers. My two 10k WD RPM's ended up in a redundant RAID in my Sun W2100z. They ran over a decade with 24/7 use as a Debian/Ubuntu OS LVM.