Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 05:18:06 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best kind of hard drive for heavy use? Message-ID: <20160914051806.297c0c3f@archlinux.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <0d1b8dba-3292-9991-ea7d-f160c25090c8@netfence.it> References: <42.56.05022.D3A48D75@dnvrco-oedge02> <20160913213649.3a3f26b2@archlinux.localdomain> <0d1b8dba-3292-9991-ea7d-f160c25090c8@netfence.it>
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 22:38:55 +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote: >(Speaking of WD Green, not WD in general) it is true, unless you run >their utility (DOS only!) which disables this "feature". >However the drives will tend to fail in a short time all the same. That perhaps was true for some older drives, that spin down after a few seconds, but it anyway required something to wake up the drives again. Howvere, it's untrue for those drives that are just a few years old. My spins down after 30 minutes, and stays a sleep , if no evil software touches it. I never had to use a tool, which anyway wouldn't have worked, because it's an USB device. >> IOW the green WD drives do exactly what is required by the EU >> Regulation > >??? By an EU Regulation all external drives must go to sleep after a while. >> just some software is bad programmed. Don't use this >> software. nOt the drives, the software is bad. > >Don't use the drives: no point in spinning up and down; besides, as I >said, I had 4 of them and even if I disabled this brain damage, they >all died within one year. I already explained why this happened. The spins for your drive might not have happened within seconds after using this utility, but as for my drive, when using bad software, what I usually don't do, every 30 minutes or something around this. I bought my WD green drive 2013-02-27 and never had an issue, IOW it's nearly 4 years old. As already pointed out, I don't use gvfs, smartd and similar software that touches the drives and enforce a spin up, directly after the drives goes asleep. You spread FUD about WD drives. Regards, Ralf
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