WD 1.5TB Green drives - Useful as door stops

[JGene]

How do the GP drives taken from the NAS box work when installed inside a computer?  What happens if you try testing them with WD's diagnostics?

[Boosterx]

I also bought a WD15EADS-00P8B0, and I can confirm that it is a total **bleep**ty HD.

I have used WD15EADS-00P8B0 with my Symology DS207, i thought that Synology was to blame, because it was so slow, but NO NO NO it is WD that cant design HD.

I was so frustrated, that I bought at QNAP TS-119 Turbo NAS, but the disk was still to slow. Then I tried it with MY PC, as a backup disk, and it worked, but it is still slow as hell, it is constant shifting in speed from 0,5mb/s op to 70mb/s.

But maybe next Christmas I will also use it as Christmas decorations.

It really amasses me, that a large firm like WD, don’t  put out a firmware update or pull back the product. This type of negative product support is something the hardcore PC community will remember.

I am not a pleased user, and I think I have bought my last WD product.

If you want a good stable product buy Samsung HD, i did because WD couldn’t deliver.

[Lethn]

I have a WD10EADS Green drive myself, I can't find any drivers or anything that might look like a solution to this but quite honestly I think this 'Green' hard drive bull is a scam to get us to buy run down components that use up less power than the other brands.

I'm not entirely sure what I can do, can I assume these drives are full of it and get another one that will suddenly work wonderfully? Or is there some simple trick to it like switching off an option that I'm not aware of because there have been some annoying moments like that for me. I'm glad I'm not the only one suffering from the problem of not being able to use this drive for even movies and basic storage but I do feel bloody ripped off.

[dr_who]

HI

same problem here.

i got 2 WD20EADS-00R6B0 works fint in my nas..... got 2 more WD20EADS-00S2B0 Not working fint... is there a firmware to WD20EADS-00S2B0 and where (link plz)..

I can read that others have the same problem..

link: http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=25733&start=255

I hope. there is a firmware to fix this.

Dr_who

[cruso]

I've got exactly same problem with two my 15eads-00P8B0 and i opened a ticket in wdc support 100102-000616, but still no answer  

while googling around i found a lot of people with the same problem but no successfull fix/workaround for it.

russian hardware related site http://forum.ixbt.com/topic.cgi?id=11:39956-63, there is some stats with problem hdd's (just ctrl-f and higlight 15eads, begging from 63 page)

or even whole category on synology forum http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewforum.php?f=151

[GuBen2]

Hi,

I have the same problem here. Synology finds the WD15EADS as compatible with their NAS products, so I bought one. Unfortunately I get the WD15EADS-00P8B0, which obviously has a changed specification to previous series of the model. Now the WD15EADS-00P8B0 is explicitly marked as slow in the Synology list - too late for me. Next time I will do without WesternDigital products because you couldn't be sure that it works like other tested items of the same model. It is a very serious experience for me.

Best regards

Guido

[Jason]

Hi,

Just for the record I would advise that I am also having similar issues with 2 WD15EADS-00P8B0 drives. 

The  only thing I can say is that it is definately a problem with the drives as they behave similarly across three complete different hardware/software platforms.  At least one of these has no RAID function (software or hardware) either so  that is not the cause.

Small files seem to transfer ok but larger ones get stuck.  The WD lifeguard tools report no issues either.

It would be interesting to see if anyone else is having issues.  Try to copy a 2Gb file directly to the disk directly attached under windows and check your event log for errors.

Currently have a support case and RMA in with WD regarding this issue.

Jason

[Jeffrey_CCW]

Same issues here.

- Hardware spec
Asus P5K-E ( P35 chipset)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6420
4GB DDR 800
Western Digital Green EADS 1TB * 2, EADS - 00P8B0
HIS ATI 4850 512mb
Corsair vx 450

I have my windows 7 ultimate 32 - bit installed when it is released.
Everything is fine except 3 weeks ago
The situation is, the mouse icon indicate loading, then windows hang ( like right click of recycle bin / mounting the CD image etc. ) and  I get explorer.exe not responding messages ; or opening a new tab for firefox, the firefox freezes for about 20 seconds without responding
Strange enough, the problem is more frequent when I surf internet via Firefox or Google Chrome.

When I check the Windows Resource Monitor, the highest active time is 100% and it lasts for 30 seconds.
I tried to find out which process occupy the load, but no luck
There are some applications loading with few kb/s and I don't think they cause troubles.

[jayoungf9]

Hi,

I'm running with an Apple Mac Pro running 10.6.2

Model:    WDC WD15EARS-00Z5B1                     
  Revision:    80.00A80
  Serial Number:         WD-WMAVU1309053
  Native Command Queuing:    Yes
  Queue Depth:    32
  Removable Media:    No
  Detachable Drive:    No
  BSD Name:    disk1
  Bay Name:    Bay 1
  Partition Map Type:    GPT (GUID Partition Table)
  S.M.A.R.T. status:    Verified
  Volumes:
WD Green:
  Capacity:    1.5 TB (1,499,957,936,128 bytes)
  Available:    727.19 GB (727,190,011,904 bytes)
  Writable:    Yes
  File System:    Journaled HFS+
  BSD Name:    disk1s2

It does indeed appear to be something weird with these drives.

Yep, browsing problem,I'm getting broken AVI/MPG files and occasional slowdowns with noises that sound like the drive is resetting. I've tried the drive with just the WDC in and also it's baby brother a

Capacity:    320.07 GB (320,072,933,376 bytes)
  Model:    WDC WD3200AAJS-00B4A0                   
  Revision:    01.03A01
  Serial Number:         WD-WMAT15044210
  Native Command Queuing:    Yes
  Queue Depth:    32
  Removable Media:    No
  Detachable Drive:    No
  BSD Name:    disk0
  Bay Name:    Bay 2
  Partition Map Type:    GPT (GUID Partition Table)
  S.M.A.R.T. status:    Verified
  Volumes:
UNTITLED:
  Capacity:    319.73 GB (319,727,931,392 bytes)
  Available:    17.71 GB (17,708,269,568 bytes)
  Writable:    Yes
  File System:    Journaled HFS+
  BSD Name:    disk0s2
  Mount Point:    /Volumes/UNTITLED

Can you advise if a firmware update will be made available for this or if you can authorise and RMA as this? 

Regards,

James

[AndyM]

I bought a WD Elements 1.5TB (MADE BY WD. SO THE BLAME LANDS SQUARELY AT THEIR FEET.)

I bought the drive in December 17th, and only use it occassionally for 20 days. And now it's DEAD (it show up on explorer briefly only as drive icon with question mark on it, and if u click it's unavaliable, and then it disappears then it repeats few seconds later, recognize as drive, questionmark, then disappear again). I took it out of the external drive enclosure, and plug it in straight to check if it's just the problem with interface. It seems to work at first (HDD now showing up) with everything in it. But when I start copying file to it, it will stall my system (every 10 seconds, it will have 1 SECOND LAG/STALL/SKIP) resulting in files that are copied with corruptions. If I transfer files from this drive to my internal drive, it will take FOREVER - 1.3 GB takes 10 MINUTES! (it only took 40 seconds in my WD internal drives (2 physically different WD drives).

SO, what am I suppose to do?

VERY, VERY [text deleted]  ANGRY AT THE MOMENT.