<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Ian Evans <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dheianevans@gmail.com" target="_blank">dheianevans@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>This 3tb internal's on sale and I may grab it and have room to breathe...<br><br><a href="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" target="_blank">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</a><br>
<br></div>Is this a green drive? Couldn't really see that and wondered if I'd have to run that utility on it.<br></div><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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).<br>
<br></div><div>Karl<br></div></div></div></div>