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anyone else use this seagate? i only tested it in a 'dumb' enclosure over esata so far, the same enclosure that normally has a ST2000DL003 (green) that doesnt seem to park, or if it does, it takes minutes for it to happen
i've used an WD40EZRX (green) with its head parking, & i successfully used wdidle to disable the parking of a WD10EZEX (blue) used as an OS drive
so then why would a full speed DESKTOP marketed hard drive have such extremely aggressive head parking!?
even for externals or greens, how is 8 seconds (for WD at least) a good idea!? when users are organizing files, they would spend time traversing folders, or for example i have winamp set to cache mp3 files into ram, so if i were to have a playlist of files, the drive would unpark+park over & over every few minutes
anyway this seagate desktop drive is going to be in a p5q-e motherboard, so it will be sata2 & used as an OS drive.... i sure hope i dont need some anti idle tool to always be running
i've used an WD40EZRX (green) with its head parking, & i successfully used wdidle to disable the parking of a WD10EZEX (blue) used as an OS drive
so then why would a full speed DESKTOP marketed hard drive have such extremely aggressive head parking!?
even for externals or greens, how is 8 seconds (for WD at least) a good idea!? when users are organizing files, they would spend time traversing folders, or for example i have winamp set to cache mp3 files into ram, so if i were to have a playlist of files, the drive would unpark+park over & over every few minutes
anyway this seagate desktop drive is going to be in a p5q-e motherboard, so it will be sata2 & used as an OS drive.... i sure hope i dont need some anti idle tool to always be running