First post, by DracoNihil
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First and foremost I'm the unhappy owner of a Western Digital Caviar Green Drive; WDC WD10EADS-22M2B0
It takes a grand total of 7 minutes and 20 seconds for everything on my computer to boot up.
I've done everything from defragmentation to clearing out everything to a bare system startup... It still takes a ungodly long time just to finish booting.
And starting any program can take anywhere from 30 seconds to a minute and a half to load while I watch the hard drive light freeze on or strobe constantly.
In resource monitor I get disk queue lengths well above 2.xx sometimes all the way up to 15.57 when I try to open something new or whenever the system is booting up cold. Google searches (please tell me if I'm wrong) indicate to me there's a serious problem because the length should never reach 2 let alone above 2.
I've checked the S.M.A.R.T. and it returns "Healthy" which to me sounds like a bold face lie given all the crap I'm putting up with this approaching worthlessness drive.
Defragging, and installing stuff over the years has actually caused the drive to slow down WORSE everytime I do it.
Looking up even more searches I'm reading that my partition may be out of alignment and I have to realign the whole damn thing, at the cost of if a power outage occurs I LOOSE EVERYTHING.
I've NEVER had a harddrive in my life act this retarded, the one in my old Windows XP x64 edition computer works like a charm, the one my old Quantex (that had a Pentium 2...) worked like a charm as well...
Did I just get a bad drive or does Western Digital make horrible drives in general? I seriously doubt this can be attributed to "power saving" that the Green series touts around.
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