Recent content by Bulk3y

I backed up all the data and ran the wdidle 1.05 through the Ultimate Boot CD. The head parking was set at 8 sec by default. I disabled it. Users of various versions of the WD green drive have mentioned disabling reduces performance or messes up their drive. After 6-7 hours, I haven't had any...

Good call on that jolancer, should have thought of that. For some reason MHDD only detected my SSD, not the 2tb hdd. Could be because of legacy size support. Victoria still couldn't initiate/detect anything to scan. Fortunately I was able to scan with HDAT that ended with no errors also. Maybe...

I have had the hdd for a few years and I use the pc all the time. Yeah, I guess mine doesn't have as many hours racked up so far, but that may be because of aggressive head parking for idling out. One of my questions was whether this could cause the mechanics to mess up faster? Rarely I hear a...

I have had an internal Western Digital Green WD20-EARX hard drive for a few years now. I am concerned about its condition and durability. I had a sudden and unexpected issue with another external drive for which I hope to seek assistance in the future. I have come to realize that a 'good'...

No lakedude, you are on point. Some have made other general points that are good and valid but may not apply to my situation as much. Regardless I appreciate everybody's input and contribution.

Lakedude, thanks for taking time to look into that. It's alright, I appreciate the sentiment (about sorry). I am impressed with the measurements. I agree with the points you have made. I can probably draw about that or maybe less when I turn off features like wifi, lcd, etc and enable that SHE...

Lakedude, thanks for looking into that. When you do test, if you didn't mind, could you please try to disable what you can at power saver setting? Your cpu may also end up a bit higher clocked at idle. Regardless, it will be nice to have a general idea about idle consumption. I have run my...

Hello everyone. I have been meaning to build an efficient setup that runs throughout the night. I think it would generally sit idle since it would only run downloads, so idle state is of importance to me. I have been looking at cheap embedded ULV mobos and I found one with a Celeron 1037u...