9 Mar
2013
9 Mar
'13
6:44 p.m.
On 03/09/2013 05:39 PM, Peder Hedlund wrote:
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.