Slow HDD, why?

[LTC8K6]

Greens are slow because they are slow.

Why they sell cheaper, you get what you pay for.

Have had the RE3s in here for they first came out, RE4s are the new ones but not what you're probably looking for. If serious for spending on a WD I'd use a Black, have a couple smaller ones on other systems with a small SSD for the OS.

Green drives are not that slow, though.

 

[MongGrel]

You are correct. By powering down I meant the head parking feature. But it is related to what he said, quoting "the WD green 1.5TB is really slow when I open it and try to access any files or folders inside".

Personally I use a WD Green (SATA 2) and a WD RE4 (SATA 3), both 1TB connected to SATA 2 ports. Apart from a little lag at first time when accessing the Green disk, both run in similar numbers and I even "feel" that the Green drive is faster.

I just had to comment as I saw this in here.

You're green might even be dragging your RE4 down, I could be wrong.

I think the RE's are made to be run in a hardware RAID to begin with.

Someone will correct me if otherwise I imagine.

 

[ArisVer]

I just had to comment as I saw this in here.

You're green might even be dragging your RE4 down, I could be wrong.

I think the RE's are made to be run in a hardware RAID to begin with.

Someone will correct me if otherwise I imagine.

I wasn't aware of that but it works fine as a storage disk.

Actually I copied 10GB of video files from the SSD to the Green and the RE4, not at the same time, and the Green was showing better numbers about 20MBps more (at the same partition areas of the disks, and they are partitioned the same way). This was from the Windows file manager.
Edit. I decided to see this again while I was writing this, so I copied 17GB on both disks. This time the numbers look reversed in favour of the RE4. /Edit.

HD Tune 2.55 shows far better numbers for the RE4.


For typical home use you cannot really see a difference.

 

[TomFoster]

I've had some drives like this before, seems like they need to 'power up' again if they haven't been used for a while (as in they aren't a boot drive). I don't know if this is a hardware issue or a Windows/OS issue. As people have said though, a 5400rpm drive isn't going to be the fastest drive around!

 

[ALECUBA]

I downloaded WD Data LiteGuard diagnostics tool and SMART Satus passed as well as a quick test. I am now writing Zeroes to the disk, I saved my data prior to this. Now, how long is this process expected to take? It has been 8 hrs and it's only showing 1 bar. If it's better I can use another process from @ Active KillDisk

 

[tweakboy]

Guys a typical hard drive takes 3 watts ...... If you had a BLACK wd then you would have been set... thx gl