WD Greens Super Slow

Nate Silvers · 14 Oct 2009 at 01:50

I have two WD Greens unraided. When I open a folder like my games or movies it takes like upto 7 seconds to open and playing music is slow too sometimes. Are they broke?

1337z0r · 14 Oct 2009 at 07:40

They are 5400RPM drives, that might be the reason although I doubt they're that slow :confused:

rpstewart · 14 Oct 2009 at 09:30

At a guess your power options are set to spin disks down after a period of inactivity. It takes a good few seconds for the drive to wake up and get up to speed before it can respond to the first request.

frustin · 14 Oct 2009 at 10:23

1337z0r said:
They are 5400RPM drives, that might be the reason although I doubt they're that slow

thoght they were 5900rpm?

Guest2 · 14 Oct 2009 at 11:13

Strange, i have a 1TB WD Green that i use in an external USB2 caddy. Theres a folder of films thats 300GB in size, it takes around 3 seconds to open. Also 250GB of music that all opens instantly in winamp

The scanning of the drive when connected takes quite a while, but then i always cancel it anyway. (Why does it scan through the drive and how can i cancel this?)

rpstewart · 14 Oct 2009 at 11:45

Scanning as in the auto play box that pops up when it's connected?

Guest2 · 14 Oct 2009 at 13:29

rpstewart said:
Scanning as in the auto play box that pops up when it's connected?

Yep, stupid thing looks like it browses through all the files as soon as its connected. I think it does the same in the background on my wdtv

Nate Silvers · 14 Oct 2009 at 14:54

The thing is, it never did this on Windows XP -_-

1337z0r · 14 Oct 2009 at 15:25

Nate Silvers said:
The thing is, it never did this on Windows XP -_-

XP never tried to be so smart, kept its self to its self

rpstewart · 14 Oct 2009 at 15:26

Guest2 said:
Yep, stupid thing looks like it browses through all the files as soon as its connected. I think it does the same in the background on my wdtv

I think you can set the AutoPlay properties on the drive but I can't remember where. I've left it on for my external because sometimes it isn't detected by the SATA card, if the box doesn't come up I know I need to scan for hardware changes.

Nate Silvers said:
The thing is, it never did this on Windows XP -_-

Different OS, different default power settings.