[LAU] External USB 2 HD for real-time recording

[Jonathan Gazeley]

On 09/03/13 17:44, Robin Gareus wrote:
>> >If it's designed to spin down it's probably also designed to be able to
>> >handle that.
> Don't count on it. Joern recently told me about his experience with
> similar "Green" WD drives where the drive died for him after a few month
> of continued use. He mentioned something about a special windows driver
> that controls the spin up/down cycles for WD drives, but I did not
> bother to inquire the details.

My experience with WD Green drives has also been bad. I bought them for 
home server use as they are quieter and use less power, but both drives 
in my RAID array failed within 18 months. I've now replaced them with 
conventional 7200rpm drives.

Jonathan