Review on WESTERN DIGITAL WD3200BPVT Scorpio Blue 320GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 2.5 Internal Notebook Hard Drive - Reliable Storage for Laptops by Soo Chang ᠌

This infection zadolbala its parking. After 4 seconds of idle time, the drive stops the spindle and parks the heads. He saves our batteries. Although I have doubts that the energy is directly radically saved, because endless spin-stops require more power than smooth rotation. In principle, there are no complaints about reliability, however, I didn’t use it so much, but permanent brakes are really very annoying. I entered the command - wait 1-1.5 seconds until it spins up. And so every time, if you do not have time to do something else in those 4 seconds that it remains hyped. As a result, in order for the system to remain responsive, and not think about any action, the disk must be constantly kicked with some requests. What is most offensive, apparently, there are different firmware for this disk - some still allow you to stop this disgrace with constant head parking, and some do not care about your attempts to change their configuration with any programs (like wdidle3). I came across an obstinate one - the only thing that can be done with him is to turn off all these stupid energy savings for him.