<SOLVED--dead>WD10EADS 1TB Green HDD

[gezza]

Hi  to all,
Has anyone had any success using WD green HDDs? Or any green HDDs?

I have had it some time connected to a Belkin Share 300. Which apart from a 300Mb/s interface it also has a usb2 connection for sharing a hard disk drive.
It has never been a successful installation. Some times it would be available at other times it was not.
It has also been plugged into a Windows 7 64 box, it was not seen, and a PCLinuxOS box, 32/64 bit and was not seen.
Some times, on either systems, it has functioned. I removed it from the usb enclosure and places it in a ICute caddie.
and a Next Star external Sata caddie and the drive does sound like the system is working, but is not seen by the OS.
It is seen by the bios! and its smart data says it is working well!!!!!!
Any thoughts gratefully received.
Gezza

[Old-Polack]

Hi  to all,
Has anyone had any success using WD green HDDs? Or any green HDDs?

Not a WD, but a Seagate 2 TB green drive. I love it, and am running this OS from it. I bought it strictly for storage, thinking it would naturally be slower than my 7200 rpm drives, but that proved to not be the case.

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,102662.0.html

[dixonpete]

I have 2 2 TB Western Digital drives in the system I'm typing on right now, one of them configured as the boot/root drive. Been 1.5yrs+ I think, no issues. Quite fast enough for my purposes.

[rubentje1991]

Downstairs using a 2TB WD Green/Eco drive; upstairs a 750GB WD Green/Eco drive
=> 2TB: OS, and all documents
=> 750: just documents (also SSD in that pc)


No problems at all (and I hope it stays like that  )

[gezza]

Thank you all for coming back,
Although the Bios sees the drive and the smart system says the drive fine an working well, it must be dead!!
Neither Win7-64 or PCLos32/64 can see it.
What say you all?
Gezza

[Old-Polack]

Thank you all for coming back,
Although the Bios sees the drive and the smart system says the drive fine an working well, it must be dead!!
Neither Win7-64 or PCLos32/64 can see it.
What say you all?
Gezza

Have you tried hooking it up as a normal internal hard drive?

[horusfalcon]

I'm with the OP on this one:  hook it up to an available SATA port as an internal drive.  That way you should be able to isolate whether it's the drive or all the interfaces that have the issue.  If you had only used the Belkin, I'd be immediately suspicious of it (not a big fan of Belkin's gear here), but you also tried some others and they didn't seem to work.  I'm wondering if maybe it's a BIOS issue?  (Seems kinda high and outside if your motherboard is at all recent, though.)

This link:  http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/search/1/a_id/1679#  may help you find out more about your drive.  It covers the entire family of Caviar Green drives from 1 to 3.5 TB, so sift the data wisely...    At the minimum, it will cover jumper settings and so forth to get it working as an internal.

This drive is rated by WD to work with Linux.  You should not have too many problem seeing it unless your motherboard BIOS won't support it. Even then, via a USB interface it should still be visible and usable if that interface complies with standards.

How do you have your drive formatted?  The Belkin site for the N300 says it only supports NTFS and FAT32...  For compatibility with any Windows systems on your router, that might be a good idea anyway.  (Of course, the other interfaces you used might support other filesystems, so this might be another red herring.)

The important thing is to determine whether or not the drive is functional in its designed environment - before your warranty or return options run out!

Good Hunting,
D

[gezza]

Hi to you all,
I have removed the drive from a dead usb device and installed it  2 machines.
1...with win7-64
2...with PCLos 32
3   with PCLos 64
One machine with win7 and 32 bit pclos the other machine with 64 bit pclos
Sometimes I  can see the drive but not format it. Most time it is not there.
I am still trying.
My contact with WD was less than useful. They would only help if I ran Windows. which i do not, but it is on 1 drive.
Which means a lot of changing about.
Many thanks for returning, I will have to continue testing.
Gezza

[horusfalcon]

And today's obscure American movie reference is:

{Intelligence operative at WD with really bad Russian accent briefs you...}

It is written in Windows.  You cannot think in Linux and transpose - you must think in Windows.  Can you do that?

{Gezza}

Sure.  Sure, I can do that.

Good luck getting the support you need from WD.  It kinda bites that they have the gall to rate a drive to work with Linux and yet won't support you unless you're running Windows?  Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot, Over?

Later On,
D