From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Sep 13 20:38:58 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B14FCBD9E16 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 20:38:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from smtp205.alice.it (smtp205.alice.it [82.57.200.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BC4D1070 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 20:38:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from soth.ventu (62.211.162.64) by smtp205.alice.it (8.6.060.28) (authenticated as acanedi@alice.it) id 57D7C4E800214ACD for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 22:38:56 +0200 Received: from alamar.ventu (alamar.local.netfence.it [10.1.2.18]) by soth.ventu (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id u8DKctTZ054109 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 22:38:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) X-Authentication-Warning: soth.ventu: Host alamar.local.netfence.it [10.1.2.18] claimed to be alamar.ventu Subject: Re: Best kind of hard drive for heavy use? To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" References: <42.56.05022.D3A48D75@dnvrco-oedge02> <20160913213649.3a3f26b2@archlinux.localdomain> From: Andrea Venturoli Message-ID: <0d1b8dba-3292-9991-ea7d-f160c25090c8@netfence.it> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 22:38:55 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160913213649.3a3f26b2@archlinux.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 20:38:58 -0000 On 09/13/16 21:36, Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions wrote: > The WD green drives are ok, as long as you don't use KDE, GNOME or a Stay away from these in any case. > The coders of the big desktop environments claim that WD drives are bad > and spin down and up again and again, but this is not true. (Speaking of WD Green, not WD in general) it is true, unless you run their utility (DOS only!) which disables this "feature". However the drives will tend to fail in a short time all the same. > IOW the green WD drives do exactly what is required by the EU > Regulation ??? > just some software is bad programmed. Don't use this > software. nOt the drives, the software is bad. Don't use the drives: no point in spinning up and down; besides, as I said, I had 4 of them and even if I disabled this brain damage, they all died within one year. bye av.