11 Mar
2013
11 Mar
'13
10:42 a.m.
On 09/03/13 17:44, Robin Gareus wrote:
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
>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.