[mythtv-users] WD Green drives (was "complete system meltdown")

[Karl Newman]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 10:37 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi
>
>
> On Tuesday, February 11, 2014, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ok, so the drive that died today (installed Dec. 31st) was a 2TB WD
>> Green. Used the parking util seconds after installing it.
>>
>> My other storage drive (a 1.5TB WD Green) has, knock on wood, been
>> running flawlessly since April 2011. So, for those of you with WD greens,
>> is it generally a good drive and there are some bad apples?
>>
>> Just wondering because, of course, I'm RMA'ing it and will just be
>> getting another Green back
>>
>
> Assuming you ran the wdidle3 utility to increase the timeout value or
> disable it altogether; IMHO they make excellent drives.
>
> In fact; if all drives I've used they are the only one which so far have
> given me no particular issue.
>
> They are fast enough, use little power and run much cooler. What's not to
> like?
>

Yep, as long as you disable the short cycle head parking (or extend the
timeout) I'd concur they seem to be good drives. I have 3 of the WD30EZRX
drives. One is maybe 1.5-2 years old and the other two are probably about 4
months old. All look pretty healthy in the periodic SMART checks I do.

Karl
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