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- Sat Oct 30, 2010 5:27 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: 40mm fans w/auto temperature control
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4869
Re: 40mm fans w/auto temperature control
That's good news if they can sell those fans separately. In the meantime I came across a temperature sensing fan speed control circuit at eBay . Would two of those (one for each fan) do the trick of regulating the fan speeds (and keeping the noise level down)? My only concern is how the hard drive e...
- Thu Oct 28, 2010 2:05 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: 40mm fans w/auto temperature control
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4869
Re: 40mm fans w/auto temperature control
Hmmmm.... :? The hard drive enclosure ( Proavio S4UF 4x removable bay rack ) comes with 2x 40mm cooling fans which are connected to a "temperature monitoring" board. The circuitry on that board disappointingly does not control the fans but detects that they're both connected, and via two temperature...
- Sun Oct 24, 2010 11:53 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: 40mm fans w/auto temperature control
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4869
40mm fans w/auto temperature control
An external hard drive enclosure of mine came with two (relatively noisy in my opinion) 40mm fans which blast at full speed all the time. I find this unnecessary and would like to have their speeds adjust automatically according to the temperature inside the enclosure. I've seen 120mm fans with buil...
- Tue Jun 22, 2010 3:38 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Is there a problem with head parks on WD Green HDDs?
- Replies: 296
- Views: 467953
Thanks for clearing things up. I'll probably be best off asking someone with a PC to run WDIDLE 3 than on the Mac. Will it work equally well when the drive is connected via USB in an external enclosure or connected directly to the PC's controller inside the PC itself? The former would be a lot easie...
- Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:10 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Is there a problem with head parks on WD Green HDDs?
- Replies: 296
- Views: 467953
It took me a few tries to get WDIdle to actually run. .... (snip) I eventually had to (temporarily) switch the SATA mode to IDE in the BIOS instead of AHCI. Sounds like a hassle. Fortunately you only have to do this once, right? What does switching between SATA and IDE modes do? Excuse my ignorance...
- Sat Jun 19, 2010 12:04 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Is there a problem with head parks on WD Green HDDs?
- Replies: 296
- Views: 467953
peternm22: yes, indeed very different to what has been said there. The problem it seems is to get a proper answer from WD themselves. I just looked at their specs/info page for Caviar Green, and there is absolutely no mention of Intelliseek anywhere. Seems to me they added that feature just to save ...
- Fri Jun 18, 2010 3:57 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Choices for a NAS drive (4x1TB drives in RAID5)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3003
A utility called WDTLER should enable TLER on those WD drives, or so several websites say. However, I've read that since late 2009, all WD green drives have had their firmware disable user-changes to both Intellipark (the drive automatically parks its heads every 8 seconds after inactivity causing m...
- Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:12 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Is there a problem with head parks on WD Green HDDs?
- Replies: 296
- Views: 467953
- Fri Jun 18, 2010 9:58 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Is there a problem with head parks on WD Green HDDs?
- Replies: 296
- Views: 467953
Well, it's finally confirmed... It's not possible to disable "intelli-park" on WD Caviar Green drives -read here . For crying out loud! WD doesn't even tell consumers about this little "feature" which causes read/write delays (each time the drive unparks) and I assume a premature death because of un...
- Fri Jun 11, 2010 9:15 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Is there a problem with head parks on WD Green HDDs?
- Replies: 296
- Views: 467953
SMART (daemon) running or not should not be a problem for any drive. You're correct, the Intellipark feature is the problem, and solutions and help exists for Windows, Mac, and Linux. I didn't know there were already working solutions. I know about WDidle 3 which is a DOS utility, but there are dis...
- Fri Jun 11, 2010 5:24 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Is there a problem with head parks on WD Green HDDs?
- Replies: 296
- Views: 467953
Hmmmm... I hadn't thought of the fact that with SMART software running that alone would contribute to a higher load. Then again I assume (because of discussions like this one and elsewhere) that the load count is still very much higher for these particular drives than many other drives. On the Mac p...
- Fri Jun 11, 2010 4:37 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Is there a problem with head parks on WD Green HDDs?
- Replies: 296
- Views: 467953
Are you saying that most of the problems with these WD Caviar green (WDxxEARS) drives are due to Windows/Linux and/or PC motherboard incompatibilities? After reading several discussions on the subject it may seem that part of the problem is due to the fact that energy saver or SMART software may be ...
- Mon Jun 07, 2010 3:00 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Is there a problem with head parks on WD Green HDDs?
- Replies: 296
- Views: 467953
I'm not familiar with Macs but surly you could boot into DOS using a USB-stick, boot CD or similar? You can run Linux on a Mac after all. I found an application called DOSbox which I just tried out. It worked and allowed me to run WDidle, but it didn't recognize any of my drives. Perhaps not so str...
- Sat Jun 05, 2010 11:48 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Is there a problem with head parks on WD Green HDDs?
- Replies: 296
- Views: 467953
Will you be running WDidle 3 to rectify the problem? If you do, please tell us how it went.Pierre wrote:I got a WD 1.5 EARS drive as a replacement to another drive...
Very quiet indeed, but the load/unload is quite high really...
- Fri Jun 04, 2010 12:50 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Is there a problem with head parks on WD Green HDDs?
- Replies: 296
- Views: 467953
Lobuni : since these are different things, do you know if auto-spindown can also be disabled on WD drives (actually on hard drives in general)? Apart from WD wanting to kill their own drives as quickly as possible (just outside the warranty period of course) I can't understand what's useful about t...
- Thu Jun 03, 2010 11:41 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Is there a problem with head parks on WD Green HDDs?
- Replies: 296
- Views: 467953
If you have TLER, the handling of situation is left to RAID controller, thus it can choose different solutions, not just drop the drive from array, it can inform the user etc etc. I see. But that's hardware configurations where a circuit board is specifically built for RAID setup you're referring t...
- Thu Jun 03, 2010 11:01 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Is there a problem with head parks on WD Green HDDs?
- Replies: 296
- Views: 467953
Trying to decide on a couple of quiet drives to mount inside a disk array enclosure and been alerted about the auto-park issues which I don't completely understand (I'm not that deep into the tech-talk) I'm even more confused after having read this thread (and others). 1) Can someone please tell me ...
- Sun Jan 04, 2009 1:28 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Reliable/low-noise ATA (IDE) hard drive
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8201
No, I never have to unplug the drive's Firewire/USB connectors. If I haven't already turned off the drive enclosure's power switch after unmounting it I can either switch it off, then on again to remount it, or I can use software such as Apple's "Disk utility" to remount it without touching the powe...
- Sun Jan 04, 2009 10:12 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Reliable/low-noise ATA (IDE) hard drive
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8201
The only part that usually doesn't work is automatic spinning down of HDD when detached from system. Usually when you eject it from system, system just tells it's safe to remove (or power off) the device. It doesn't shut down by itself with default drivers. I don't quite understand what the problem...
- Sat Jan 03, 2009 7:07 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Reliable/low-noise ATA (IDE) hard drive
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8201
- Sat Jan 03, 2009 3:57 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Reliable/low-noise ATA (IDE) hard drive
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8201
I'll be using the external drive with a Mac using the Firewire 800 port. Here's the enclosure I'll be using (and have an additional one with a Samsung 400GB drive in, connected the same way). In case you're not familiar with Macs, the way an external hard drive works is that to connect it you just p...
- Fri Jan 02, 2009 3:39 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Reliable/low-noise ATA (IDE) hard drive
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8201
I need an IDE drive because I have an external Firewire 800/USB 2 cabinet which only takes IDE (ATA) drives. It'll be used as a backup drive. I've been looking into dampening the Samsung drive (which is placed inside an identical cabinet), but there's little room for that sort of modification, which...
- Fri Jan 02, 2009 10:23 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Reliable/low-noise ATA (IDE) hard drive
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8201
Good advice to let the drive run a while before putting important data on it. So Western Digital isn't a brand to stay away from then? I have heard that some brands are definitely "no-no!" (Maxtor and Hitachi), but I've been under the assumption that Seagate, Western Digital (Quantum? -have they sto...
- Fri Jan 02, 2009 7:41 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Reliable/low-noise ATA (IDE) hard drive
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8201
Reliable/low-noise ATA (IDE) hard drive
What's the most reliable and low-noise level 3.5" ATA (not SATA!) hard drive these days? I was thinking about getting a Western Digital 5000AAKB (500 GB). My understanding is that this is the same drive as the SATA interfaced 5000AAKS and 5000KS which has been awarded as the " big low-noise champ "....
- Sun May 27, 2007 4:20 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: silencing drives in a 19" rack enclosure
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1508
silencing drives in a 19" rack enclosure
I'm considering placing two hard drives in a 19" rack enclosure: http://img-europe.electrocomponents.com/largeimages/R224256-01.jpg I believe a "1U" height type will do (the bottom one in the photo), and apart from the two drives I would also mount a Firewire interface and the power supply. Any good...
- Tue May 15, 2007 12:20 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: 19" rack enclosure for hard drives
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2228
19" rack enclosure for hard drives
Has anyone mounted hard drives in a 19" rack enclosure before? Having a laptop and other 19" rack mounted equipment I've been wondering if that would be a good option (I've got vibration problems with my current external enclosure and a Samsung 400GB IDE drive). I was thinking that I could buy an em...
- Mon May 14, 2007 10:26 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD5000KS vs WD5000AAKS
- Replies: 67
- Views: 107042
- Mon May 07, 2007 8:59 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung disappointment/new drive choice?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6024
While recent reviews are more critical towards AAKS, at least they report lower vibration than KS. And that's a good thing: it may woosh or whine, but it wouldn't vibrate the enclosure. Finding "the right" right drive doesn't seem to be an easy task at all, and very time consuming. I certainly don'...
- Sun May 06, 2007 7:22 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung disappointment/new drive choice?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6024
"But what are you referring to when you write "AAKS" and "KS"?" There's no reviews of AAKB and there most likely will never be. Assume AAKS to be identical except that it has SATA/300 interface instead of IDE/ATA. KS is older variant of the same capacity and has 1 extra platter, thus higher vibrati...
- Thu May 03, 2007 12:52 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung disappointment/new drive choice?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6024
before changing drives, try this - take your enclosure off the stand and put it down horizontally on some foam or a gel-pack. it just might do the trick. I'm not using the stand at all. I borrowed the photo from the manufacturer's website (as with the image below). My drive is placed flat down on t...