It has come to our attention that Western Digital's Caviar Green HDDs suffer from a critical design flaw caused by an aggressive power-saving feature. Western Digital has developed a new technology called Intellipark (aka Idle 3 mode) and it is designed to reduce power consumption, in part by positioning the HDD's heads in a park position and turning off unnecessary electronics after 8 seconds of inactivity.

Read more: http://www.ngohq.com/news/19805-critical-design-flaw-found-in-wd-caviar-green-hdds.html#ixzz1MRydUuqR

Not sure if this has been posted but will do anyways just in case. I'm sure there are a few users who use WD HDDs.

Interesting. I have two of those drives in my NAS but haven't noticed any problem either.

Good thing I don't have any Green drives in this current system, and none in my new one i'm picking up today.

I disabled the parking on mine in my NAS, was causing issues. You can use a program WD put out called wdidle3 to change the parking time.

that might explain why so many of my portables have died a clicking death,

Just stay away from most of the WD and Seagate 1TB and 2TB models and you'll be fine. They really lost the plot over the last few years - really shits me off that they can get away with selling such unreliable drives for so long. 20% failure rates for most of their drives is just unacceptable.

Samsung, which has been selling some of the most reliable drives in comparison recently got their HDD division bought by Seagate, so you can rely on their drives going downhill soon too. *angry face*

I have a 1 tb and a 2 tb with no issues.

Sigh.

1) This is not a design flaw
2) This is old old old news
3) Go to 1)