Hey guys, just thought I'd post my experience. I did a lot of research before buying a drive in the 1TB range. What I found is that WD is still the most reliable and lowest energy usage by far. I did use the Wdidle3 utility to turn off the parking, I mean why not. In my testing it using about 1 ext...

H My system is silent and stable and im 100% happy. Dont shy away from an excellent drive. I still dont know if the parking issue will cause a failure, but who cares if you can turn it off for no REAL penalty. However, hasn't it been established the Wdidle3 utility only works on certain green drive...

Thank you for the advice, however: I'd suggest you get a WD green and not worry as it has a 3 year warranty or Well data loss is more of a worry to me than the cost of replacing a drive. I know "back up regularly" but it seems a bit ridiculous to have to by TWO hard drives for every one I want to us...

Here's the deal. I want to buy a 1.5TB Western Digital Green drive. I don't care about whether or not the head parking issue actually harms the drives. I just don't want them to park every 8 seconds. I notice WD only offers this software to make adjustments to certain models, and I don't see the 1.5...