WD Scorpio Blue still spinning

You might contact Western Digital customer support.

Ciao.

I would be very intrested if this could be solved too, I have the same problem with a 500GB Scorpio Black in my 2009 MackBook Pro, I can feel the vibrations and hear it constantly spinning just to the right of the touch pad and it has quite a negative effect on the battery life.

I was kind of hoping that maybe a firmware update from WD would solve this as I just can't find the answer either.

Fixingclip wrote:

I would be very intrested if this could be solved too, I have the same problem with a 500GB Scorpio Black in my 2009 MackBook Pro, I can feel the vibrations and hear it constantly spinning just to the right of the touch pad and it has quite a negative effect on the battery life.

I was kind of hoping that maybe a firmware update from WD would solve this as I just can't find the answer either.

Try another brand, I have always had mediocre performance and unexpected behavior from WD drives, stopped using them altogether some time back and from reading this (and other posts) I don't regret that choice.

I appreciate the advice, although it turned out to be a highly recommend drive upgrade for this model and other than this nagging problem (which I never noticed straight away) I just can't fault it.

Surely there must be reason or a fix for this?

Fixingclip wrote:

I appreciate the advice, although it turned out to be a highly recommend drive upgrade for this model and other than this nagging problem (which I never noticed straight away) I just can't fault it.

Surely there must be reason or a fix for this?

That is exactly why I never recommend WD, too many people lamenting "Surely there must be reason or a fix for this"

After you have exhausted your time 'fixing' this, try another brand.

My appologies, I never meant to offend by asking a wider audience if there is another possible solution available other than replacing the drive for another brand.

I have taken on board your suggestion, I did not appreciate that the problem I am experiencing with this drive just cannot be fixed.....period.

Maybe in this case others considering this range of WD drives can learn from this and steer clear of them?

Many do, but many are not aware, If it were me I would cut the time lost and replace it with something else, I have had no issues with Hitachi and Seagate (Momentus & MomentusXT) drives.

And whatever brand you choose totally avoid the 'Green' drives.

Thanks Charlie.F,

I totally agree with your comments above and I shall carry on watching this thread and the other links you have listed with great interest.

In the past I have always had satisfactory results using WD drives both for performance and reliability and I find it hard to accept that this particular drive (a drive which many users here have recommend for the Macbook Pro) is not quite delivering the goods as expected, In your situation the Scorpio Blue is concidered to be a "Green Drive" however I was not aware that the Scorpio Black was and even still, why would a power saving drive have to constantly spin to save energy?...it just dosent make sense.

As I replied earlier in response to Csound1's advice, I respect his recomendation and experience not to waste time with this, in the end this may well prove to be the best advice but I am in a situation where a little time is something I am fortunate to have at the moment unfortunately though I am not in a position to throw money at a replacement, the worst case senario is this may help other users with their choice of replcement drives.

Sorry, forgot to mention the obvious, are there any other users with replacement WD drives that have experinced similar simptoms?

I'm no tekkie but could it be anything to do with the way the original dive was cloned? I use Carbon Copy Cloner.....?

Or is it that:

"WD discs are simply not compatible with OS X and this is happening to everyone who has it, although they don't care (or have not noticed) and let te be as it is."

Charlie.F wrote:

Fixingclip wrote:

I'm no tekkie but could it be anything to do with the way the original dive was cloned? I use Carbon Copy Cloner.....?

The problem is I didn't clone the drive, I've installed it regularly...

Well guys, it seems to me there is nothing more we can do about it. I'm removing the disc and sending it to the reseller. I will let you know once I get any reply.

I'm pretty shure my next internal drive (I don't blame them for external drives, they seem to work allright) won't be WD, although they say on their website that Scorpio Blue is "optimized for operation with Mac OS X" and "tested for compatibility". I really don't know how could they say the drive is "ultra quiet"...

I was wondering if you have found an alternative solution, that means an internal drive withou any ShockGuard or AdvancedFormat technology, 500GB in size, that will be really quiet. I know the best way is the SSD but it's still too expensive and the minimum size I need is 400GB. I have been looking all over this forum and found many threads, but none of them seems useful to me.

As I said before I have had good results from Seagates Momentus range, all sizes, all varieties (including the XT hybrids), I also have had no issues using Hitachi drives.