ur wd is green or blue?

What's your D drive hard disk? Is it the same hard disk but different volume/partition?
If you're using Green (Eco, 5,400rpm) then you should expect something like this, if your system has not access the hard disk for more than 10 minutes, the hard disk will spin down to slower speed or totally stop (just like sleep mode) to save power, you can however use hard disk management tool from each manufacturer, seagate and western digital has them for their own hard disk, you can set not to spin down when idle, this will speed up your access time but the hard disk will spin more, consume more power and "probably" lesser life span.

My WDC Green 1TB has 1 permanent bad sector (Reallocated Sector Count) and 5 read error sectors (Pending Sector Count), I would backup the whole drive and do some low level format before sending to RMA as the web state that most of the time those RMA return the very same thing back to you, and those hard disk still within acceptable bad sectors margin will NOT be accepted as well.
Hard disk can live pretty long if you give them much care and of course, that's all pretty darn depends on luck as well (it's made by human after all).

blue

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Added on March 9, 2012, 10:07 amsamsung one still alright.....,but western digital one, already occur some problem which error reading and suffer terrible copy /transfer speed

so what is acceptable bad sector margin?

This post has been edited by eremitic: Mar 9 2012, 10:07 AM

Try check your SMART and look for "Reallocated Sector Count", if the amount is huge, somewhere 10+ then you should send for RMA.
Also use the WDC tools to verify the condition of the hard disk, they usually only accept the report from their program, not sure if they will care about how much bad sectors on the hard disk.
If "Pending Sectors Count" is huge, you should experiencing file corruption, then you should low-level format it, normally it should fix it but sometimes later it might come back again (in my case it came back with fewer counts, improvement??)
If every SMART is good then you can run speed test using HD Tune (free or pro can too) to perform speed test to verify if there is speed drop, then try to test few more times before send to shop for RMA. Print screen, print it out and convince them it's the hard disk fault.

end user....WD anytimes bro

tried with windows built in one hdd error-checking, it solved some problem bad sector from 4.7x% drop to 3.x%

both my hdd only pending sectors count got value,reallocated sector count 0

thank

Just avoid WD Green, then you'll be okay.

all my drive are Blue

i use WD green over 2 years. when i said 2 years, i means 2 year of spinning time. and no bad luck at all.

people says it all about your hand
if your hand cursed, anything you touch will break

is it right time to get hdd? when price will drop?

few day ago, i surveyed...still high.

i heard price will going up again..coz machine spoil due to overload..true?

Then you're good.

All my other WD device running okay, but Green 2 weeks kaput already.

it is best to avoid WD 1tb green, 2 of my friend kena so far with that model 1 year ago.
their hdd got issue after about half year of usage, like very slow reading time and sometimes cannot start up at all when the hdd is attached to mobo.
The hdd price is still higher than last year before flood, maybe need to wait more than a half year to stabilize the supply and the price.



This post has been edited by sI Taufu: Mar 12 2012, 02:50 PM

WD Green is safe for external storage use.

I also had problem with the drive before. It caused system hangs, slow transfer etc.... and after some Googling I found out that it had something to do with the head parking. But if we use it for external storage (with HDD enclosure), there wont be any such problem. I'm now using it with Vantec HDD enclosure without any issue for more than a year already. So, before anybody thinking of throwing the drive away you guys might reconsider my method

This post has been edited by soulfly: Mar 12 2012, 04:17 PM

guys..i got westerd digital hd 1TB.use on media plater now seems got problem.detect in bios but windows can login with hd attach.how can we resurrect that HD?

how for 2tb wd green? any problem? thinking of getting wd essential usb3

Which model is it and how much is it?

Anybody can share their experience with Toshiba 3.5" internal HDD?
or should I get Seagate?
Any of Samsung HD103SJ tech appearing on Seagate?

I'm using Vantec NexStar CX. Price is around RM70-ish.... USB 2.0 (that time USB 3.0 hasn't come out yet).