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Review on πŸ’Ύ 16TB WD Elements Desktop Hard Drive - USB 3.0, PC & Mac Compatible - WDBWLG0160HBK-NESN by Momchil Gavrilov ᠌

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Reliable product for all occasions, quality on par.

It was originally a router kit that I modified into a torrent rocker. You made a wonderful choice in watching S. M. A. R. T. It turned out to be a WDC WD15EARX-00PASB0, the standard "green" drive. You already know that the "green" from WD has one major flaw: when running Linux, the disk heads will be permanently parked. Therefore, their very own mechanisms. A total of 333 parkings occurred in the first 26 hours of operation, or about 13 per hour, or once every 5 minutes. Given that I have successfully fixed a problem with "greenery" using the DOS boot loader and the WDIDLE3 software with the /S300 argument, I am certain that this will work. However, it was discovered that a USB connection would render this ineffective. I opened the package with care after spitting on the warranty. To do this, I utilized five plastic cards, which I slid between the base and the walls. After that, I reconnected the controller board to the motherboard, booted into DOS, and ran the WDIDLE3 / S300 command. The entire process took 20 minutes, 15 of which were spent just opening the package.

Pros
  • Quiet. The only way to get it to start up is to plug it into a computer's USB port, even if the power cord is plugged in.
Cons
  • Problems with parking in one's head. The timeout has been established at 8 seconds.

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