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Samsung EcoGreen 500GB SATA Hard Drive $49 at ZipZoomFly
ZipZoomFly.com has the Samsung EcoGreen 500GB SATA Hard Drive for $49 with free shipping. Features a 5400RPM rotation speed, 16MB buffer, and a 3.5" form factor. Average seek time of 8.9 ms and a average latency of 5.52 ms. [Compare]
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#1
monkieinabarrel - Posted 12:45 pm PDT 05/11/09 (870 Posts)
this might be good if its a single platter drive. kinda small capacity wise though.
#2
stragus - Posted 12:52 pm PDT 05/11/09 (46 Posts)
Might be good, 1 platter. Warranty is 3 years parts and labor.
#3
pacohaas - Posted 1:09 pm PDT 05/11/09 (287 Posts)
is it still ecogreen if I throw away my 3 current 500GB drives and replace them with 3 of these?
#4
traveler - Posted 1:22 pm PDT 05/11/09 (201 Posts)
not cost friendly though
#5
Bonzo100 - Posted 1:24 pm PDT 05/11/09 (442 Posts)
#3 ... good observation posed as rhetorical question ... he he!
#6
cuntpuncher - Posted 1:33 pm PDT 05/11/09 (135 Posts)
so 5400RPM is green?
Wow, I was saving lots of money pre-2001 and didnt know it.
#7
superd00d3 - Posted 1:48 pm PDT 05/11/09 (2475 Posts)
"5400RPM ought to be enough for anybody" - anon
#8
techsupport - Posted 2:29 pm PDT 05/11/09 (2588 Posts)
This drive is black.
#9
dizzum - Posted 2:35 pm PDT 05/11/09 (797 Posts)
I don't think that race should have anything to do with this.
#10
JimmyJ - Posted 2:43 pm PDT 05/11/09 (27 Posts)
Click on the warranty link at ZipZoomfly for this drive and see what the manufacture says about the warranty. Good luck finding warranty info from Samsung.
#11
techsupport - Posted 3:07 pm PDT 05/11/09 (2588 Posts)
#9, I don't think so either but those godammed affirmative action policies say otherwise.
#12
KSmut - Posted 3:25 pm PDT 05/11/09 (79 Posts)
Is this better than the WD GreenPower or about the same?
#13
Ldog - Posted 3:38 pm PDT 05/11/09 (41 Posts)
You guys are f'ing stupid. Eco Green is the color they paint their drives...
#14
UnL337 - Posted 4:06 pm PDT 05/11/09 (54 Posts)
No, Eco Green is the stuff they make their platters with, so they are biodegradable. All your data are belong to the Earth.
#15
MisterE - Posted 4:18 pm PDT 05/11/09 (493 Posts)
No, Eco Green is people!
#16
derausgewanderte - Posted 4:39 pm PDT 05/11/09 (90 Posts)
that's soylent green 
(1973 with Charlton Heston)
#17
NotBen - Posted 5:52 pm PDT 05/11/09 (797 Posts)
5400 rpm gtfo
#18
techsupport - Posted 6:15 pm PDT 05/11/09 (2588 Posts)
#16, FAIL.
Soylent green was with Steve McQueen "Do you feel lucky, punk. Well, do ya?"
#19
dave_c - Posted 6:28 pm PDT 05/11/09 (7517 Posts)
Just say no to morons who don't get it. The time spent pondering this tiny energy difference wasted more energy that would ever be saved.
The green thing to do is turn off your computer. Goodbye, sorry to see you leave the internet.
The green thing to do is turn off your computer. Goodbye, sorry to see you leave the internet.
#20
rjs - Posted 6:50 pm PDT 05/11/09 (381 Posts)
#18, triple-fail.
Bullet was with Steve McQueen (gotta love it when the bad guys "buckle up for safety"), "do you feel lucky..." was Dirty Harry with Clint Eastwood, and "Soylent Green" -was- made out of "people".
I suppose "Eco-Green" means that no baby seals have ever been clubbed to death by one of these drives...
ALL SATA II drives sport "3.0 GB/sec" because that's the burst communications speed. It's the MEDIA transfer rate that's important. This "slow" 5,400 RPM drive is spec'ed at 166 MB/sec which isn't too bad--it's faster than some older, 7,200 RPM drives.
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