On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 18:44 +0100, Robin Gareus wrote: > On 03/09/2013 05:39 PM, Peder Hedlund wrote: > > Quoting Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > > > >> "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 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
