2TB WD green questions

[jacktesterson]

I have one in my HTPC for storing my media.

It works excellent. Its going on 2 yrs old. Its faster than a 500GB 7200RPM Seagate drive in another PC I have according to Crystal Diskmark. Before I got my Vertex 4 I actually used it for Steam too and never any issues.

 

[Mfusick]

I'm planning to pick up one of these drives for storage in the next few days and have a couple of quick questions.

-does disabling the head parking make the drive function like any other drive without this eco feature? the head will still park when the computer shuts down or windows puts the drive to sleep correct?

-any negatives to disabling head parking other than power savings?

-is it recommend to run a program to thoroughly check drive health before copying over my files and if so which? I plan to keep a backup of vital files on my existing drives but i rather not find out the drive was bad after spending time copying stuff over.

thanks in advance

Why not get a cheaper faster Seagate 2TB for $69 ??


Or a RED drive for the same price. You know the RED drive uses less power than the GREEN drive right?

And- It does not have intellipark head parking so it's more reliable and comes with longer warranty.

 

[Muse]

Why not get a cheaper faster Seagate 2TB for $69 ??


Or a RED drive for the same price. You know the RED drive uses less power than the GREEN drive right?

And- It does not have intellipark head parking so it's more reliable and comes with longer warranty.

Where do you get these. I did some searching for large (external) HDs over the TG weekend, saw nothing like that price. Where? I could use another large USB external HD. I have 3 EARS right now in external enclosures, one is quite suspect and I want to copy data off it before using it again if at all.

 

[Soulkeeper]

Where do you get these. I did some searching for large (external) HDs over the TG weekend, saw nothing like that price. Where? I could use another large USB external HD. I have 3 EARS right now in external enclosures, one is quite suspect and I want to copy data off it before using it again if at all.

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if you're patient you can get good prices.

 

[Mfusick]

Are you sure? I have a WD20EARS under Windows and the head parking value was already at a very high number after a few days of use.

Also, you don't really disable the parking, you set it to happen after a longer time than the default 8 seconds. Search for WDIdle if you want to do this.

Right.

 

[Mfusick]

Where do you get these. I did some searching for large (external) HDs over the TG weekend, saw nothing like that price. Where? I could use another large USB external HD. I have 3 EARS right now in external enclosures, one is quite suspect and I want to copy data off it before using it again if at all.

It's been on newegg two weeks now...