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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).<BR>
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<B>From</B>: Brian Pitts <<A HREF="mailto:Brian%20Pitts%20%3cbrian@polibyte.com%3e">brian@polibyte.com</A>><BR>
<B>Reply-to</B>: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale@ale.org><BR>
<B>To</B>: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <<A HREF="mailto:Atlanta%20Linux%20Enthusiasts%20-%20Yes!%20We%20run%20Linux!%20%3cale@ale.org%3e">ale@ale.org</A>><BR>
<B>Subject</B>: [ale] OT: WD "Advanced Format" and "Green Drives"<BR>
<B>Date</B>: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:19:21 -0400<BR>
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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] <A HREF="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136513">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136513</A>
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