2 of my WD GREEN 1TB starting to have bad sectors
both of them are the First batch of 1TB 64mb cache + Advanced Format Drive. for some reason one of the drive's transfer rate is uber slow(133kbps!) if move a folder contain large amount of files, but moving them one by one seems normal

my other older WD drive(320/500GB) are still strong and healthy

just bought WD BLACK 2TB 2002EAFX... for backup only, f****** expensive

"Reallocated sectors count" in smart status? time to buy new HDD.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.#Kn...R.T._attributes

The SMART status may report wrongly, like my WD green 1TB, the HDD died but the HDtune still report it as in good condition.
If your HDD is acting weird like Copy/write/transfter Rate slow like slowpoke, eg speed down to unbelievable 100kbps, chance are your HDD have bad sector or going to die soon, cause windows keep trying to retrieve the data from bad sector.

I think its depend on luck bah, buy newer batch or buy 1 pair and run on RAID1 if i afraid of data loss.
i never trust any hdd brand except WD

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Added on February 14, 2011, 1:10 amIT shouldnt be lag unless you connect to USB1.1, USB2.0 sustain transfer rate is more than enough to play compressed 1080p video, or if the video you are playing is uncompressed Bluray rip
If you dont trust the SMART status, the windows log will show alot of NTFS or Disk error if your hdd really have problems.


This post has been edited by 1024kbps: Feb 14 2011, 01:10 AM

Bang for buck still the samsung one
WD black is noisy HDD isnt it? i can hear the spinning noise very clearly even i have 2 SFLEX G + noctua p14 running at full blast
As usual, use HD tune to check the HDD smart status, windows event viewer can tell you if your HDD have problem too.(and chkdsk utility will nag you to check the HDD before enter the windows).
http://www.ehow.com/facts_4868917_hard-dri...h-symptoms.html

In win7 you dont have to do anything if you are using advanced format drive, only Windows XP need to do alignemnt when fresh install
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=120#tab10

HDD all use FDB iirc, Fluid Dynamic Bearing, it wont ware out easily no matter how you place the HDD.
The FD bearing will last very long compare to Ball bearing (noisy and average MTBF), sleeve bearing (worst but cheaper to produce, noisy when going to wear out, MTBF very short)

The price prolly going back to normal shortly, or just get SSd if you cant wait lol
http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?p...94#post10705194

This post has been edited by 1024kbps: Nov 9 2011, 12:05 PM