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Western Digital or Seagate
limefc:
They both contain the same kind of WD green drive, though.
What do you think I mean when I say break? A hard drive, or anything else for that matter, breaking means it doesn't work anymore. Doesn't matter how it breaks, head crash, you throw it in a swimming pool, same result. You lose data on it.
Dhruv:
I wonder why do the people say Green is a bad drive... Bad for playing games that is. And they say no such things about Elements or My Book Essentials.
What I meant by breaking is falling down and breaking into pieces. I usually do not move a drive from place to place so chances of atleast that is reduced.
limefc:
It's most likely because people don't have externals connected to their computer 24/7. Like for instance, all but one of my external drives only works maybe 1 hour a month.
Dhruv:
--- Quote from: limefc on August 28, 2012, 12:30:30 PM ---It's most likely because people don't have externals connected to their computer 24/7. Like for instance, all but one of my external drives only works maybe 1 hour a month.
--- End quote ---
My external is connected 24x7 from my computer for seeding purposes. Is that bad?
Or wait... Was it you who told me to use it 24x7?
limefc:
We had a discussion on WD Greens and their power management already.
And yes it was me. WD Greens defeat any benefit you get from that due to internal power management features.
WD Green long term reliability issues stem from the spindle speed manipulation and start/stop cycling it does automatically while being powered on - if you use it once a month it wears the thing down a lot less.
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