[ale] OT: WD "Advanced Format" and "Green Drives"

[Richard Faulkner]

Why go USB when you can go eSATA?  I've had a "higher" failure rate of
WD drives at work and overall in the past few years but am running WD on
my home machine w/o issue.  The work drives were likely damaged in
shipping (installed in HP machines poorly packed/loaded -- load shifted
in transit and boxes came crashing down like dominoes).  We've had
around a dozen bad drives from a batch of 400+ boxes so far.  Failures
are usually bad blocks or dead-drives (short lived).

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com>
Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
Subject: [ale] OT: WD "Advanced Format" and "Green Drives"
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:19:21 -0400


Hi,

I'm thinking about getting a large, slow hard drive [0] for backups and
media storage. I'll be putting it in a USB enclosure. Does anyone have
experience, good or ill, with the latest Western Digital drives that use
4KiB blocks and "intellipark".

[0] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136513



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