hard drive w/ potential failure

dagnasty

dagnasty

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hey all.

I have 2 of the seagate 1.5 TB models which I bought before I was informed of the failure rate and I figured that it would be wise to ask here if i should be alarmed because if i dont check now i never will. Basically my problem is that the drive tends to "stall" after a period of idle time. It is usually only an issue in Windows but it happens too often now. For instance, I go to my computer in the morning and click on the folder on the drive (which is the secondary non OS drive for storage) and it will stall and about 3 seconds later there is a small click sound as is if it were trying to find its place. It is very annoying so I really want to resolve it. The thing is other seagate drives that I have had have done the same thing to me without failure for years, and instead just leaves me annoyed. I for one am pretty mad about the epidemic with these drives but if anyone has suggestions I am open to them.


thanks
 
Ha, i had no idea about this. It seems that the spin down is the cause of this and not a faulty drive. However, is it better to still have a spindown point or does it not matter? I set it to an hour.


thanks
 
I have mine set to never spin down. You'll save maybe 3 or 4 watts if you let them spin down, I don't think it affects drive life much either way.
 
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