[mythtv-users] 3tb drive question

[Karl Newman]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:

> This 3tb internal's on sale and I may grab it and have room to breathe...
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> http://www.futureshop.ca/en-ca/product/wd-wd-3tb-3-5-sata-internal-desktop-hard-drive-wdbh2d0030hnc-nrsn-wdbh2d0030hnc-nrsn/10256791.aspx?path=c0dc8fe4186a5489e7155cde795613dben02
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> Is this a green drive? Couldn't really see that and wondered if I'd have
> to run that utility on it.
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>From what I read (on Newegg), it's sort of a middle ground between the WD
green and blue drives, but a commenter said that it does shut down and
requires about 2 seconds to access again, so you will probably want to run
the wdidle3 utility (or idle3-tools in linux) to disable it or at least
increase the timeout (my green drive is set to 5 minutes).

Karl
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