Originally Posted By: hybrid8
Knock on wood, so far I have had good luck with the 2TB WD EARS (green) drive in my Windows 7 system
Uhhh... yeah. What he said, except I'm running Vista and not Win-7. WDidle3 timer is set to 30 seconds, but I could have left it at default, since the only time those drives are accessed is to read or write 10 GB or larger chunks of data.

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