I bought a WD Green Caviar for my new computer. I choose the green line because of its low noise level. But I am no longer sure that it was a good choice. Yes, the drive is really silent and it is fast enough for me. But I had two strange system crashes during the last 3 weeks ( with my old comput…

Virustotal convinced me that my wdidle3 copy is clean. So I created a FreeDOS boot CD and run wdidle3. I reported a timer value of 8.0 seconds. The command line option for disabling the timer at all is “/D”. However, the timer is not entirely disabled but set to 62 minutes idle time - a limit that…

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Green Caviar: High Load Cycle Cout after short operation time

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WD15EARS March 24, 2010, 4:04pm 3

8 seconds? that’s crazy! can’t you change that?