100% guaranteed fix.
Remove drive, get large sledgehammer, whack it repeatedly until the pieces are so small you cant recognize them as being part of a hard drive then sweep them up and deposit remains in nearest scrap metal smelter. On the way back home swing by your local PC shop and grab a Samsung 850 EVO of appropriate size and install in its place.
Hitachi DeathStar drives are a dime a dozen. I'm a bit disappointed that they even bother putting them in. They are pretty much obsolete to the point its hard to find one at common places as they have stopped selling them. Im so spoiled on the speed and complete silence of the SSDs now I could never go back to a spinner. They have their place and its not in any of my machines, maybe a museum.
Remove drive, get large sledgehammer, whack it repeatedly until the pieces are so small you cant recognize them as being part of a hard drive then sweep them up and deposit remains in nearest scrap metal smelter. On the way back home swing by your local PC shop and grab a Samsung 850 EVO of appropriate size and install in its place.
Hitachi DeathStar drives are a dime a dozen. I'm a bit disappointed that they even bother putting them in. They are pretty much obsolete to the point its hard to find one at common places as they have stopped selling them. Im so spoiled on the speed and complete silence of the SSDs now I could never go back to a spinner. They have their place and its not in any of my machines, maybe a museum.
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You can set the APM to 0 and it should reduce the drive-killing parking, but as it's a "green" drive you will never be able to stop it because of how the firmware is coded.
These things have a pretty high failure rate - like all "green" drives. Manufacturers need to cut the bullS*** and start shipping drives that do not force bad features on you that intentionally reduce the life span of components. You might save $3 a year on power or a couple minutes extra battery life but it's just not worth the slowness, added disturbing noise, and drive wear.
Green is market driven ATM. I cant even begin to tell you the hundreds of millions if not billions of $$ I've seen blown in enterprise data centers over the "Green Wave". Well that wave has broken and smashed on the shore never to resurrect. They all bought into this BS not so much as worrying about the carbon footprint but bean counters with money. They all went down this path with the entire data center from servers to the infrastructure that supports them with delusional abandon. Start with the servers all the way to the critical power. When you look at a single drive it doenst make the difference of a pimple on a pi$$ ants butt but when you look at a data center that houses hundreds of thousands of drives the proposed impact is massive. Im watching this go down and just shaking my head. Pallet after pallet of drives replacing arrays and rebuilding them. Once they were done and the load was reduced on the UPS systems they began decomissioning them and instead of leaving them in place they ripped all of decommissioned one out. About the time the back end of the go green project is completed is when the problems started. Drives failing on a massive scale. Several banks had to build new mirror data centers without green servers because the drives in the main data centers were failing at such a tremendous rate they were approaching not being able to keep them coming in the door as fast as the initial drives were going out it. By the time the new mirrors were up and running they wear back replacing replacements! Im an engineer in the critical power industry and we made a butt load of money so thanks to the green effort for turning black. I only wish that I personally got just 1% of the money they wasted. Better than hitting the lottery!
Needless to say, as it customary in the IT business supporting the financial sector, everyone who was even remotely involved in this decision is now seeking employment as a garbage collector as they were all relieved of their duties and blackballed in the business.
Keep that wife happy and puppy tired or the other way, doesn't really matter and they will quiet down. As for the neighbors Ive always found out showing them how annoying it is to have noisy neighbors works best and is also 100% effective. Had some the partied until the sun was coming up relentlessly. Ill turn my back for occasional gatherings but people getting plowed, passing out in the yard, in their cars, in the garage and even in my yard was getting old. So Im out at 5AM with permanent markers offering up some of my art work free of charge and they all wake up with a nasty hangover to "Bringing in the sheaves" at blasting at 120 dB in a constant loop through a crappy old outdoor loudspeaker. They got the hint and I wasnt kept up all hours by them again.
Just doenst make good senese IMO to hold on to old tech when SSDs prices are dropping by the minute and capacities growing by the second. I flipped when I saw 256GB thumb drives and 200 GB micro SD cards! Thats 2-3 TB of storage that can fit in the mass of a US quarter $. When you are old as dirt like me this never ceases to amaze me. I can still remember the very first spinner hard drive I saw. In a glass plant control room there was an enclosure in the corner. I was there to automate their process and just surveying it from beginning to end. Went in the control room just to observe for awhile and take notes and saw this 3Ft square metal enclosure and decided this was a good place to sit for a bit and be out of the way. They about came unglued and yelled before I planted it. Turns out this massive monster was the hard drive that held all the current process and whats even more astsounding is the capacity. Here its this square foot enclosure weighing in at at least 200 lbs that was home to...........are you ready?............wait for it...........................................................................40MB!!
Optical drives are pretty much outdated technology as well. Noisy and slow. There is nothing that comes on a disc that you cant download or stream faster and 100% silently. I bought GTAV on disc, took an entire day almost to install from an optical drive. Download even with their slow server was done in less than an hour. My entire movie collection has been ripped from bluray and re encoded to MKV high setting which Once you cut the useless material and have only the movie the files are about half the size with no noticeable loss if quality. They are all in a box in my basement, All the blueray players found new homes and the content is streamed from my NAS to anyplace on the planet with PLEX.
TravelStar by HGST = Hitachi deathstar. only difference is size. HGST is Hitachi with that division bought out by western digital.
