9 Mar
2013
9 Mar
'13
7:18 p.m.
On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 18:44 +0100, Robin Gareus wrote:
On 03/09/2013 05:39 PM, Peder Hedlund wrote:
Hi Robin,
I like that you set "Green" in quotes.
When I searched for external drives the WD seems to be the most pleasant
drives. I didn't ask the community, but read some reports ;).
It's exactly what I fear, if I'll use the drive very often, it will die
exactly in 2 years and 1 day, when there's no warranty anymore. If it
would die during period of warranty, it would be much more worse. My
dealer would send me a new drive, that's not the issue, but to copy > 1
TiB of data from a click-click drive each half year isn't fun, even if
most data should be available by the internal drives.
IMO it's bad hardware design. Would anybody use a 3.5" drive that needs
an external power supply, as portable accessory for a battery powered
computer? We even wouldn't save the planet, since the less power
consumption does pollute our world less, than replacing every few month
the drive by a new drive.
Until now all my internal drives died after around 2 years, the Samsung
I'm using now are already 4 and 5 years old :) *knocking on wood*. I
only hot glued the first generation SATA connectors, because they lose
contact from time to time, before I did this, but those drives don't
cause issues since the connectors are hot glued.
Regards,
Ralf
Quoting Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net>et>:
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. "All WD external hard drives will spin down
(enter into power saver
mode) after 10 minutes of drive inactivity. Once the drive is accessed
again, the drive will exit from the power saver mode and spin back up.
If it's designed to spin down it's probably also designed to be able to
handle that.