Western Digital external drives

[Mike Holstein]

On Friday, March 15, 2013, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-03-15 at 06:55 -0400, Andrew Huys wrote:
>> "Ok 1. Buy Seagate drives in future. Good guarantees and built
>> properly. By comparison WD drives are made from sheep sh** and mud!"
>>
>> Agreed.  I've got a WD 1TB drive in the 2nd HDD bay on my Lenovo T 61p
>> laptop, and a 120GB Seagate in the primary bay.  The Seagate is
>> silent, spins up and down reliably, "soft parks" and is just generally
>> a joy to use.  The WD on the other hand is loud, spins erratically,
>> and spinning down?  DON'T LET IT!  If it does, try to access > wait
>> about 30 seconds > WHIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR > "Filesystem Remounted"...
>> If I unmount the drive, sometimes, it will continue to run at full
>> speed for a few hours, for no apparent reason.
>
> It might be that the WD drive I own will be a bad drive, it's just 2
> weeks old, so I don't have experiences, but I can't confirm that it's
> noisy. It's the first drive I own that is quasi _inaudible_ when awake
> and I've got a very good hearing. It's 30 cm away from my right ear on a
> wooden table, a very good resonator.
>
>> Lesson learned?
>> -I'll stick to Seagate.
>> -Or Hitachi
>
> Don't! Stay to exactly the models and revisions of Seagate and Hitachi
> drives that you know as being good. I experienced Seagate/Maxtor and
> several other drives, perhaps Hitachi too, I don't remember, as bad,
> just my Samsung are very good. Even if you should order the same model,
> you can't ensure to get the same revision. However, I don't clami that
> Samsung in general is good, the drives I own are very good.
>
>> As far as working on drives goes, GPtd can do just about everything
>> you need.
>> I would also reccamend gsmartcontrol (sudo apt-get install
>> gsmartcontrol), a graphical SMART data reader.  Just helpful to check
>> and see what's going on with the drive.  Also fun to check "new" HDD
>> with.  My 1TB WD out of the box came with 3 G-Sense errors...
>
> I'm aware of all the tools, but that doesn't solve the issues caused by
> a service that touches the drive and makes it spin up.
>
> And don't confuse internal drives with external USB 2 drives.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
>
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All drives fail. I have actually had the best luck with wd brand.. though
I'm sure chance could be just as much a factor as anything else.



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MH

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