[mythtv-users] Going to add HD-- anyone with the WD "green"sata drive?

[Bob Long]

Shawn Rutledge wrote:
> My first 1TB "green" drive was very slow, but the EADS model is
> better.  I'm wondering sometimes if the sheer size of the filesystem
> makes it slow (takes more seeks to find a given file, for example).
>
> http://ecloud.org/index.php?title=Performance_of_the_Western_Digital_WD1000FYPS_terabyte_drive
>
> I still have the old one sitting around, can't decide whether to RMA
> it or not because I can't be sure it's really defective.

Visit www.wdc.com and use their diagnostic software. If it fails that, there 
should be no reason they won't accept that it's defective.

-- 
Bob Long