On Fri, 2013-03-15 at 06:55 -0400, Andrew Huys wrote: > "Ok 1. Buy Seagate drives in future. Good guarantees and built > properly. By comparison WD drives are made from sheep sh** and mud!" > > Agreed. I've got a WD 1TB drive in the 2nd HDD bay on my Lenovo T 61p > laptop, and a 120GB Seagate in the primary bay. The Seagate is > silent, spins up and down reliably, "soft parks" and is just generally > a joy to use. The WD on the other hand is loud, spins erratically, > and spinning down? DON'T LET IT! If it does, try to access > wait > about 30 seconds > WHIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR > "Filesystem Remounted"... > If I unmount the drive, sometimes, it will continue to run at full > speed for a few hours, for no apparent reason.
It might be that the WD drive I own will be a bad drive, it's just 2 weeks old, so I don't have experiences, but I can't confirm that it's noisy. It's the first drive I own that is quasi _inaudible_ when awake and I've got a very good hearing. It's 30 cm away from my right ear on a wooden table, a very good resonator. > Lesson learned? > -I'll stick to Seagate. > -Or Hitachi Don't! Stay to exactly the models and revisions of Seagate and Hitachi drives that you know as being good. I experienced Seagate/Maxtor and several other drives, perhaps Hitachi too, I don't remember, as bad, just my Samsung are very good. Even if you should order the same model, you can't ensure to get the same revision. However, I don't clami that Samsung in general is good, the drives I own are very good. > As far as working on drives goes, GPtd can do just about everything > you need. > I would also reccamend gsmartcontrol (sudo apt-get install > gsmartcontrol), a graphical SMART data reader. Just helpful to check > and see what's going on with the drive. Also fun to check "new" HDD > with. My 1TB WD out of the box came with 3 G-Sense errors... I'm aware of all the tools, but that doesn't solve the issues caused by a service that touches the drive and makes it spin up. And don't confuse internal drives with external USB 2 drives. Regards, Ralf -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
