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<blockquote data-quote="Cowabunga" data-source="post: 7098790" data-attributes="member: 718"><p>All my external mechanical drives sleep when not accessed.</p><p>WD red are meant for NAS storage, as described in post 14 above, which is for a centralised access data storage solution for a network. There has been some controversy lately because WD changed the type of media used inside their red drives without informing customers, which resulted in much increased access times if my memory serves me. I think they have now resolved the issue, if only by more clearly labelling their drives, but this is from memory and may be subject to inaccuracy because I only read it in passing a couple of months ago.</p><p></p><p>Backups are usually regularly done and really need to be as automated as possible and the media overwritten when full. What is not needed is masses of DVD's around the place, which need manual loading. Besides which optical drives are being discontinued very quickly on new machines. I've not used one in probably six years except for trying to access photo files of my daughter stored on series of disks about 20 years ago. They are inaccessible and have been tried in several computers. They did work at some point years ago. Luckily I still have the video cassettes that they weren originally written to, except that I no longer own a video tape player. Optical drives are similarly on the way out. The beauty of hard drives using USB is that they will still be current in many many year's time, even if it means using a USB C or whatever is then current, adapter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cowabunga, post: 7098790, member: 718"] All my external mechanical drives sleep when not accessed. WD red are meant for NAS storage, as described in post 14 above, which is for a centralised access data storage solution for a network. There has been some controversy lately because WD changed the type of media used inside their red drives without informing customers, which resulted in much increased access times if my memory serves me. I think they have now resolved the issue, if only by more clearly labelling their drives, but this is from memory and may be subject to inaccuracy because I only read it in passing a couple of months ago. Backups are usually regularly done and really need to be as automated as possible and the media overwritten when full. What is not needed is masses of DVD's around the place, which need manual loading. Besides which optical drives are being discontinued very quickly on new machines. I've not used one in probably six years except for trying to access photo files of my daughter stored on series of disks about 20 years ago. They are inaccessible and have been tried in several computers. They did work at some point years ago. Luckily I still have the video cassettes that they weren originally written to, except that I no longer own a video tape player. Optical drives are similarly on the way out. The beauty of hard drives using USB is that they will still be current in many many year's time, even if it means using a USB C or whatever is then current, adapter. [/QUOTE]
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