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On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 18:44 +0100, Robin Gareus wrote:

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> On 03/09/2013 05:39 PM, Peder Hedlund wrote:

> > Quoting Ralf Mardorf :

> >

> >

> >> "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.

>

> 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.

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
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