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On 9 May 2012 04:47, 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 nowadays. |
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> When comparing them to a non "green" drive, do they hold up as good? |
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> Are they as dependable as a plain drive? I guess they are more |
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> efficient and I get that but do they break quicker, more often or no |
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> difference? |
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> I have noticed that they tend to spin slower and are cheaper. That much |
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> I have figured out. Other than that, I can't see any other difference. |
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> Data speeds seem to be about the same. |
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They have an ugly tendency to nod off at 6 second intervals. |
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This runs up "193 Load_Cycle_Count" unacceptably: as many |
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as a few hundred thousand in a year & a million cycles is |
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getting close to the lifetime limit on most hard drives. I end |
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up running some iteration of |
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# hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda |
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every boot. |
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