Critical Design Flaw Found in WD Caviar Green HDDs

[STEvil]

my blacks arent noisy?

[Frodin]

It seems like they got better, but over 20 dB for a harddrive is too much for my liking:

ACOUSTICS

WD Caviar Black 2TB

The first generation 1TB Caviar Black was one of the loudest hard drive we've ever tested, measuring >21/25 dBA@1m (idle/seeking) in our anechoic chamber. While nowhere close to current quiet HDD leaders, the new 2TB version is a huge improvement, generating 5 dBA less when idle, and about 3 dBA less when seeking.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1079-page5.html

I wish someone made something like 3300rpm harddrives for pure storage purposes (way overkill for USB 2.0 or most NASes anyway), focused on silence and reliability. All of the drives I have seen that are supposed to focus on reliability are 7200rpm drives, and I bet they are not quiet enough for my liking.

[NKrader]

my blacks arent noisy?

mine are def way louder than my greens. and in a bad case they are way louder.. got a pair of 750gb blacks for my parents rig.. put em in the gateway case... sooo loud..

You can disable the idle timer...not sure about the other problems. One of the 2 week old 3TB WD30EZRX drives I got already needs an RMA. It had a Current Pending Sector Count. After running DLGDiagv519 to analyze/fix the issue, it now has an Offline Uncorrectable Sector. I don't trust the drive now....got some Ultrastar drives coming. Maybe they'll fair better.

guarentee you will have problems with all drives.. its not like huge companies like wd just drop the ball for years.. everyone has bad HD's.. so you can hop around as much as you want. but drives will still go bad and bread no matter the name on the box.

thats my 2cents

[cx-ray]

guarentee you will have problems with all drives.. its not like huge companies like wd just drop the ball for years.. everyone has bad HD's.. so you can hop around as much as you want. but drives will still go bad and bread no matter the name on the box.

thats my 2cents

I have nothing against WD in general. Actually, I prefer them. However, I need some 3TB drives for a RAID setup in a NAS. I tried the WD Green drives against the recommendation of the manufacturer. One drive failed and I'm rethinking the issue. Maybe it's smarter not to take the risk of using them for a purposes that the manufacturer doesn't recommend.

WD doesn't currently have 3TB enterprise drives for sale. So, I had to look for an alternative.