/"Ok 1. Buy Seagate drives in future. Good guarantees and built
properly. By comparison WD drives are made from sheep sh** and mud!"/
Agreed. I've got a WD 1TB drive in the 2nd HDD bay on my Lenovo T 61p
laptop, and a 120GB Seagate in the primary bay. The Seagate is silent,
spins up and down reliably, "soft parks" and is just generally a joy to
use. The WD on the other hand is loud, spins erratically, and spinning
down? DON'T LET IT! If it does, try to access > wait about 30 seconds
> WHIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR > "Filesystem Remounted"... If I unmount
the drive, sometimes, it will continue to run at full speed for a few
hours, for no apparent reason.
Lesson learned?
-I'll stick to Seagate.
-Or Hitachi (if you can find them). In my previous laptop, an
IBM/Lenovo T43p, I had a Hitachi Travelstar with the APS enabled (there
is/was a pacckage in the repositories) and that was a wonderful setup.
It would park the drive if the computer accelerometer detected that the
computer was moving. Saved my files a couple of times when I was doing
mobile recording and people tripped on cables...
As far as working on drives goes, GPtd can do just about everything you
need.
I would also reccamend gsmartcontrol (sudo apt-get install
gsmartcontrol), a graphical SMART data reader. Just helpful to check
and see what's going on with the drive. Also fun to check "new" HDD
with. My 1TB WD /out of the box/ came with 3 G-Sense errors...
~And
On 03/14/2013 11:20 PM, Anthony Hall wrote:
Ok 1. Buy Seagate drives in future. Good guarantees and built
properly. By comparison WD drives are made from sheep sh** and mud!
You can test your drive by setting it as a slave drive (secondary)
drive in your machine. It's easy enough to set it as such in the bios.
Then, open 'Gparted' and run a benchmark test. It comes packaged with
studio. If it's not working, do everything, format it, erase
partitions, change the filesystem to ext4.... You name it! If it's
bust what have you got to lose? Might as well learn how to use Gparted.
I've never rescued a bust drive yet. I tend to find they are
mechanically sound or they are not.
Have fun but avoid hammers... they are very bad for hard drives ;) p
On Mar 14, 2013 3:29 PM, "Ralf Mardorf" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hallo,
in the German WD forms I got a reply, with the claim, that once a WD
Elements is spin down, it will park, _not_ spin up again, if
there's no
access.
For my updated Quantal, 64-bit with current kernel lowlatency from the
repos and a self-build kernel-rt 3.6, running current Xfce 4 the drive
does spin down and up again and again even when _no_ partition is
mounted, I'm running a Xfce 4 session without an application launched,
while I don't use the computer.
So with completely no access by me,
- Quantal _does_ access the drive, even if no partition is mounted
- or I got a brand new drive that's broken and should make use of the
warranty
How can I find out, if there's something fishy with my Quantal or if
the drive is broken?
Any ideas?
Regards,
Ralf
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