Quote:Dartz wrote:*Shrug* I've never had any problems with WD. Every time I've bought a new one, it's because I was upgrading space, not a drive failure. Would have to check to see what my oldest installed drive is, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was 5+ years old. Newest is 2.
Watch out for Western Digital drives. Aggressive power management can cause them to go through cycles of parking and unparking the drive head every second or two. The idle timer on my laptop's hardisk was set to something like 3 seconds out of the factory, which caused it to do something like 50,000 cycles inside a few days of use... I ended up disabling the feature outright.
And that's the replacement disk. The predecessor died after 6 months. Presumeably for reasons that are now obvious.
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