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    Really Weird WD 640 Scorpio Blue.

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Mario_jr, Oct 28, 2010.

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    Mario_jr Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well I think my experience with WD6400BEVT is getting worst every day.
    Yes Im still thinking this drive is loud, but now things are getting really bad.
    Today I decided to backup some images and other files( that are bigger than 4GB) to my usb external HD and in the middle of the copy my MBP just became unresponsible ( spinning wheel of death)
    Well.. I decided to run a couple of test to isolate the problem, and to my surprise my data cable, case and HD were fine, then I decided to use one of my time machine HD in my MBP as main HD and execute the same copy , now using WD as external drive, and everything was ok... no problems at all.

    Is my HD dying, or it is just an incompatibility ?
    BTW. My Load/Unload cycles is about 6/min
    Here is a S.M.A.R.T status:
     

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    Tinderbox (UK) BAKED BEAN KING

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    Hi!
    Right now, I only have acess to mac. Going to test it later on a windows bootcamp and a pc machine.
    Thanks
     
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    Im so sorry, this txt is a mess ! :D

    A picture is worth a thousand words :rolleyes:
    Here is my smart pic, the values are the same in windows (hdtune) and osx (smart utility).
    Look at Command Timeout, is that normal? :confused:
     

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