Info only re windows fast start

In article , Paul
wrote:

I always try to buy the WD 'black' drives with a 5yr guarantee.


They keep juggling the drive level behind those colors.
You should take the designation as such, with a grain of salt.

no they don't.

On 2019-08-29 9:26 p.m., Paul wrote:
Eric Stevens wrote:
On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 09:52:30 -0400, Rabid Robot wrote:

On 2019-08-29 12:13 a.m., nospam wrote:
In article , VanguardLH
wrote:

And remember, if you are using an SSD, that those writes to the
hiberfil.sys are on your SSD which has a limited number of writes.
hard drives don't last forever either and they're far more likely to
fail than an ssd, which will normally outlast the device it's in.
I wouldn't trust a hard disk at all nowadays. The last one internal one
I purchased, a WD Blue 2.5" one, last about 8 months. I knew that I
could send it in for warranty but I was looking to get rid of the laptop
it was in anyway and couldn't be bothered. Total crap to say the least.

I always try to buy the WD 'black' drives with a 5yr guarantee.


They keep juggling the drive level behind those colors.
You should take the designation as such, with a grain of salt.

It really is a treacherous world we live in.

http://forums.storagereview.com/inde...ck-wd4005fzbx/

And a lubricant excuse ? WTF??? Why do you need to drop
the flying height, to make a 4TB drive ? 4TB drives were
"perfected" years ago. You don't need to ruin them.

This is why you *cannot* keep buying the same color.
Because they keep ruining them.

Sometimes, the drive size matters. The 6TB may be a superior
product to the 4TB or 2TB models. Even though you may not want
6TB of capacity, maybe you get a better design that way.

Just about every time I've read the customer reviews, I've discovered
reasons to not buy certain stuff. The above thread is an example,
a warning of sorts. Now, I couldn't buy one of those 4TB ones.
Some other WDC products, that normally spin 24/7, the newer
models use "fast sleep" and it's like having a laptop drive
in your desktop. (You're all the time "waking it up".)
That's not why we pay a premium for those things. We
expect them to remain spinning and ready to go, and
not be messing around.

I have a 500GB drive with 47000 hours on it, that never
stops spinning or parking the heads. It still has spotless
SMART statistics too. It is possible for a drive to last
for a long time... When you find a unit that works that
well, it's like winning the lottery.

Â*Â* Paul

Would that be the ST3500418AS model, If so I have 2 of them spinning
happily going on 10 years now and still show good smart specs.

Rene

Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 2019-08-29 9:26 p.m., Paul wrote:
Eric Stevens wrote:
On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 09:52:30 -0400, Rabid Robot wrote:

On 2019-08-29 12:13 a.m., nospam wrote:
In article , VanguardLH
wrote:

And remember, if you are using an SSD, that those writes to the
hiberfil.sys are on your SSD which has a limited number of writes.
hard drives don't last forever either and they're far more likely to
fail than an ssd, which will normally outlast the device it's in.
I wouldn't trust a hard disk at all nowadays. The last one internal one
I purchased, a WD Blue 2.5" one, last about 8 months. I knew that I
could send it in for warranty but I was looking to get rid of the
laptop
it was in anyway and couldn't be bothered. Total crap to say the least.

I always try to buy the WD 'black' drives with a 5yr guarantee.


They keep juggling the drive level behind those colors.
You should take the designation as such, with a grain of salt.

It really is a treacherous world we live in.

http://forums.storagereview.com/inde...ck-wd4005fzbx/


And a lubricant excuse ? WTF??? Why do you need to drop
the flying height, to make a 4TB drive ? 4TB drives were
"perfected" years ago. You don't need to ruin them.

This is why you *cannot* keep buying the same color.
Because they keep ruining them.

Sometimes, the drive size matters. The 6TB may be a superior
product to the 4TB or 2TB models. Even though you may not want
6TB of capacity, maybe you get a better design that way.

Just about every time I've read the customer reviews, I've discovered
reasons to not buy certain stuff. The above thread is an example,
a warning of sorts. Now, I couldn't buy one of those 4TB ones.
Some other WDC products, that normally spin 24/7, the newer
models use "fast sleep" and it's like having a laptop drive
in your desktop. (You're all the time "waking it up".)
That's not why we pay a premium for those things. We
expect them to remain spinning and ready to go, and
not be messing around.

I have a 500GB drive with 47000 hours on it, that never
stops spinning or parking the heads. It still has spotless
SMART statistics too. It is possible for a drive to last
for a long time... When you find a unit that works that
well, it's like winning the lottery.

Paul

Would that be the ST3500418AS model, If so I have 2 of them spinning
happily going on 10 years now and still show good smart specs.

Rene


Yes, that's the one. Mine still has Win2K on it.

https://i.postimg.cc/mkSJg09N/ST3500418-AS.gif

I could probably remove the tiny spikes on that, with
some extra effort. But it's still pretty enough the
way it is.

Paul