On Friday, March 15, 2013, Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
All drives fail. I have actually had the best luck with wd brand.. though I'm sure chance could be just as much a factor as anything else. -- MH mikeholstein.info <http://www.mikeholstein.info/>
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