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Posted 21 November 2011
WESTERN DIGITAL Elements External Desktop Hard Drive 1.5TB £59.99 @ PC World
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Yea if your in need of storage then this is a good deal
It's USB 2.0 but you can rip out the drive
Amazon is also selling it for the same price.
amazon.co.uk/gp/…SAO
- wingz
for a fix to a problem with this drive.
hotukdeals.com/dea…e=4
- wingz
Currys link:
currys.co.uk/gbu…tml?intcmpid=display~RR~Computing%20accessories~10945113
Dixons link:
dixons.co.uk/gbu…tml?intcmpid=display~RR~~10945113
Dixons is 99p cheaper!
- spacemaniac
It's USB 2.0 but you can rip out the drive
Amazon is also selling it for the same price.
amazon.co.uk/gp/…SAO
- wingz
for a fix to a problem with this drive.
hotukdeals.com/dea…e=4
- wingz
Currys link:
currys.co.uk/gbu…tml?intcmpid=display~RR~Computing%20accessories~10945113
Dixons link:
dixons.co.uk/gbu…tml?intcmpid=display~RR~~10945113
Dixons is 99p cheaper!
- spacemaniac
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There seems to be a flaw with the Green Drives, basically it has a feature called Intellipark where basically after a period of 8 seconds of inactivity, the drive heads “park” themselves, or go into standby position to save power. But most OS like Windows are incompatible with this feature so what happens is that as soon as the heads are parked, they are activated again. This leads to wild oscillation between the two states which might eventually wear out the drive much quicker.
The simple solution is to download and burn a utility called wdidle3 (http://www.mikerosoft.org/Utilities/FreeDOS%20WDIDLE3.iso) onto cd and use it boot up you computer then disable the Inteillipark feature with the command wdidle3 /d to see if its disabled to type wdidle3 /r or if you want to keep the feature or have any problems then simply set the timer to 5 minutes rather than the default 8 seconds by typing the command wdidle3 /S300
You will need to take the drive out the enclosure and connect it to you PC via the sata cable then make sure that in the Bios you set the Sata to IDE and not Raid or ACHI and only have the WD Green disk connected when you do this as it may change the setting on your other disks as well.
My load cycle count is 202 after 12 hours (manufacture rated at 300,000) so in 2 years it will reach the limit oO
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People, don't be put off by folks saying these are not reliable or has problems, of the millions of Hard drives sold there are always going to be one or two that turn out to be faulty irrespective of the manufacturer.
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The bottom of the box says "Product of Thailand" (_;)
I bought 2 of the 2tb ones from Dixons too when they were going for under £55 a while back.
I did however find that they both stopped working quite quickly (within 3 or 4 days).
Annoyingly when each had got to 1.4tb full.
Dixons were really good & arranged for me to swap them out @ PC World.
The 2 replacements have been as good as gold.
Whatever they do to them in transit just doesn't do them much good.
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You do know that buffalo use western digital drives in their products
doesn't matter how good your drive is, it could die anytime
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Yes, if only we could do time travel!
not being funny but they shoudn't be even using a computer if they don't know!
You mean speed difference between USB 2.0 from the enclosure vs Sata inside the pc?
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The enclosures are bad? I have one of these...
you serious!? O_O
That's what I'm going to do, planning to use it in my PC.
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same product but buy with amazon and you will receive a £2 MP3 voucher. WOW!!
Hot
I've never owned an external hard drive. I just wanted to back up my photos, movies etc. and this seems like a good deal.
Is there anything I need to be wary of or would this be ok for my simple needs?
What is USB 2.0 and would I need to "rip out the drive"?
Thanks to anyone that can help.
6% TODAY (only I think) on TopCashBack [always worth checking both of them!]
MKD
same product but buy with amazon and you will receive a £2 MP3 voucher. WOW!!
But very hot indeed!
Don't think that is true as mine got the click open the mybook and put in another western drive and it worked .. the removed drive still clicked even out of the mybook and in pc
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This will meet your needs, assuming your PC has a USB socket. You won't need to 'rip out the drive', that's only for folks removing the HDD from these for use inside PCs.
WOWOWOWOWOW!!!!111
The click of death ... basically the hard drive head gets stuck and wont reset back ... and the HD is well dead/game over/end credits .... my mybook did this after about 2yrs video of click of death
It's a common term to use when a drive becomes faulty, they often make a continuous clicking noise sometimes called "the click of death" It happens when the read and write arm inside the disc fluctuates backwards and forwards quickly and hit's the centre bush of the disc.
I have had many dozens of drives in use and only ever had one that has gone faulty and yes it did click! (FWIW It's wasn't a WD drive)