Western Digital external drives

[Anthony Hall]

Ok 1. Buy Seagate drives in future. Good guarantees and built properly. By
comparison WD drives are made from sheep sh** and mud!

You can test your drive by setting it as a slave drive (secondary) drive in
your machine. It's easy enough to set it as such in the bios. Then, open
'Gparted' and run a benchmark test. It comes packaged with studio. If it's
not working, do everything, format it, erase partitions, change the
filesystem to ext4....  You name it! If it's bust what have you got to
lose? Might as well learn how to use Gparted.

I've never rescued a bust drive yet. I tend to find they are mechanically
sound or they are not.

Have fun but avoid hammers... they are very bad for hard drives ;) p
On Mar 14, 2013 3:29 PM, "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:

> Hallo,
>
> in the German WD forms I got a reply, with the claim, that once a WD
> Elements is spin down, it will park, _not_ spin up again, if there's no
> access.
>
> For my updated Quantal, 64-bit with current kernel lowlatency from the
> repos and a self-build kernel-rt 3.6, running current Xfce 4 the drive
> does spin down and up again and again even when _no_ partition is
> mounted, I'm running a Xfce 4 session without an application launched,
> while I don't use the computer.
> So with completely no access by me,
>
> - Quantal _does_ access the drive, even if no partition is mounted
> - or I got a brand new drive that's broken and should make use of the
>   warranty
>
> How can I find out, if there's something fishy with my Quantal or if
> the drive is broken?
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
>
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