I bought at least 3 of those and all have failed. I'm currently trying to bring one back to life. They haven't been run continuously, IOW I put the machines to which they were connected to sleep most of the time. I'm so disappointed in those drives, I'd never buy another WD external HD again. I have 3 Seagate 3TB external HDs that haven't failed me yet, had maybe 1.5 years and they came with 3 year warranties. The WD drives were only warranted for one year (doh!). I have a couple of 3TB WD RED HDs in my NAS, so far so good, over a year, but those are highly rated by users, a different story, they are internal HDs, not in WD case solutions.WD Green 2TB, one at 25 000 hours, one at 20 000. They're quite a few years old, but haven't been in 24/7 service for more than maybe one or two.
OT: Checking them out in CrystalDiskInfo right now, the 20 000h one has a "Current Pending Sector Count" reading of 1. Everything else is at 200, the baseline. I guess I have to buy a new HDD. Damn.
[root@isengard uploads]# smartctl -a /dev/sdj | grep -i hours
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 087 087 000 Old_age Always - 9628
[root@isengard uploads]# smartctl -a /dev/sdf | grep -i hours
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 070 070 000 Old_age Always - 22467
[root@isengard uploads]# smartctl -a /dev/sdh | grep -i hours
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 070 070 000 Old_age Always - 22488
[root@isengard uploads]# smartctl -a /dev/sdl | grep -i hours
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 080 080 000 Old_age Always - 14987
[root@isengard uploads]# smartctl -a /dev/sdo | grep -i hours
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 082 082 000 Old_age Always - 13809
[root@isengard uploads]# smartctl -a /dev/sds | grep -i hours
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 097 097 000 Old_age Always - 25400
[root@isengard uploads]# smartctl -a /dev/sdu | grep -i hours
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 097 097 000 Old_age Always - 25496External drives? Who's talking about external drives? WD Greens are internal drives. They might be used in MyBooks and stuff like that (logcal, with them being the quiet/low-power series), but they're still internal drives.I bought at least 3 of those and all have failed. I'm currently trying to bring one back to life. They haven't been run continuously, IOW I put the machines to which they were connected to sleep most of the time. I'm so disappointed in those drives, I'd never buy another WD external HD again. I have 3 Seagate 3TB external HDs that haven't failed me yet, had maybe 1.5 years and they came with 3 year warranties. The WD drives were only warranted for one year (doh!). I have a couple of 3TB WD RED HDs in my NAS, so far so good, over a year, but those are highly rated by users, a different story, they are internal HDs, not in WD case solutions.
What I bought at least 3 of is:External drives? Who's talking about external drives? WD Greens are internal drives. They might be used in MyBooks and stuff like that (logcal, with them being the quiet/low-power series), but they're still internal drives.
External drives? Who's talking about external drives? WD Greens are internal drives. They might be used in MyBooks and stuff like that (logcal, with them being the quiet/low-power series), but they're still internal drives.
Of course you can. That's not what I was talking about. I was talking about Muse calling WD Greens (a range of 3,5" internal SATA HDDs, specifically) "external drives", simply stating that while they might be used inside of external drives, labeling them so is simply wrong.They are simply drives. They can be used internally or externally. Don't limit your thinking to ready made externals. I have 5 Vantec cases running 3.5-in "internals" externally. Been doing that for years.
That's what I was talking about. You bought external drives that simply happened to contain WD Greens. From my experience with the WD Elements line, they probably failed from shitty construction, lack of ventilation, lack of spin-down on idle, bad PSUs, and other cost-cutting features. Elements is/was a value line, after all. The drives themselves should be okay. Not great, just okay.What I bought at least 3 of is:
Western Digital WD Elements 2 TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive. I think some or all of them had WD Green HDs in them. All failed. Well, the one that went RAW the other day is now under a prolonged chkdsk /r. Maybe it can be saved. Right now, Windows can't access the drive.