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Only came to their attention because WD finally admitted to it. Been an ongoing discussion about it over here,
SPCR • View topic - Is there a problem with head parks on WD Green HDDs?
for close to 2 1/2 years.
Read more at: SoftpediaIt has been recently discovered that Western Digital's line of Caviar Green hard disk drives, one of the company's most popular HDD ranges, is suffering from a critical design flaw which can cause the drives to behave abnormally, and could even lead to performance losses and a shorter HDD lifespan.
Only came to their attention because WD finally admitted to it. Been an ongoing discussion about it over here,
SPCR • View topic - Is there a problem with head parks on WD Green HDDs?
for close to 2 1/2 years.
Great...everybody keeps saying what good drives that WDC has, but I keep getting lemons. My WDC Green is in an external case, connected via a SI eSATA card. It wasn't clear to me how to run this fix, because the drive doesn't directly connect to the MB, thus the SATA/IDE isn't controlled by the BIOS.
I still say they're good drives (Caviar Blacks) just stay away from the greens
I've never had a single issue with the Greens and indeed they don't seem to have very inflated Load counts for me, but I set it to 300 seconds anyways. Also, for those who say the Blacks don't have this feature: wdidle3 detected and changed the park timer on my 2TB Caviar Black from 12 seconds (the apparent default).