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On Wed, 09 May 2012 03:47:09 -0500 |
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Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> As some know, I'm planning to buy me a LARGE hard drive to put all my |
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> videos on, eventually. The prices are coming down now. I keep seeing |
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> these "green" drives that are made by just about every company |
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> nowadays. When comparing them to a non "green" drive, do they hold up |
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> as good? Are they as dependable as a plain drive? I guess they are |
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> more efficient and I get that but do they break quicker, more often |
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> or no difference? |
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> I have noticed that they tend to spin slower and are cheaper. That |
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> much I have figured out. Other than that, I can't see any other |
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> difference. Data speeds seem to be about the same. |
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> Please, no brand wars. I may get a WD, Maxtor, Samsung or some other |
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> brand. I haven't picked that part yet. So far, I have had good luck |
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> with drives. I think I have one doorstop so far. I have at least one |
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> of each of the brands above too. Don't jinx me. I'm sure someone |
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> has a horror story about some brand. |
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Green drives are basically just low power drives. It's a branding |
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gimmick. Like you noticed already, they tend to spin slower (uses less |
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power). |
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I stuck 4 of them in my media server for 12TB of cheap storage. And |
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they are silent. I can barely hear them running even when I'm sitting |
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next to the server and the kids are running the telly full tilt :-) |
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I haven't heard any mention from anyone at all that they are less |
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reliable in any way. I'd expect them to be more reliable than |
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super-fast drives because they are lower power, but drive models have |
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so many things affecting reliability it's hard to tell. |
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One thing we have noticed is that Samsung's recent model are not very |
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"green", they spin up slowly, use lots of power and make a racket when |
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spinning. But they do work. |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |