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Hello, |
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On Wed, 09 May 2012, Dale wrote: |
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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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Basically: they run a 5400 min^-1, the "normal" ones at 7200 min^-1 |
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and the green use less power. Years ago, a normal drive took 10-13W |
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running, up to 27W during spinup. Now it's IIRC 4-6W running and some |
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more during spinup (haven't seen any figures lately). |
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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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Yes. |
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>Please, no brand wars. I may get a WD, Maxtor, Samsung or some other |
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>brand. |
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Hm. You've been out of the loop. Of those 3, only one remains. |
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Maxtor was bought by Seagate some years ago and Samsung this year, |
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there's now appearing the first Samsung drives from Seagate (I got one |
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of those, odd labeling, sold as |
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2000GB Seagate Barracuda Green ST2000DL004 (HD204UI) |
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So, now there's only 3.5 to 4 Manufacturers left: WD, Seagate, Hitachi |
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and Toshiba (and Fujitsu?) manufacturing only 2.5" laptop drives. |
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Other sellers like cnMemory etc. used to repackage Samsung drives |
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(IIRC the othere Manufatureres did not allow that), I wonder what |
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those will do now that Samsung is bought up by Seagate. |
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HTH, |
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-dnh |
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I am supposed to be the info provider, so here is my answer: |
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By the way: What is the question? -- Johannes Meixner |
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in https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=190173 |