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oh wow, this is a deal. But I don't know if Ben is right saying it's 7200 RPM. That's the only part that's disputed.
Regardless, great drive for EXTRA storage. Fast enough for HD content, great overall, especially at the energy consumption level.
It's a 5400rpm drive, not 7200. Their IntelliPower marketing is mysteriously vague, but they actually published the rotational latency for a while on their website that showed it to be 5400rpm.
Western Digital's product page pretty clearly states this is a 7200 RPM drive.
[edit] OK, well something's funky on that EagleBit website - they give two different drive part numbers in the product description.
One - WD10EACS - in the product name, then another - WD7500AYYS - in the "description" section.
I'll not be buying from them.
ya, they try to screw you with ambiguous descriptions.
Sorry, but this is a bad deal. Samsung drives are WAY more reliable than WD. Hell, even Hitachi drives are better than WD.
#3: I think that WD just claims that the speed is variable, and <7200RPM. Reviews have checked this out, and found that these drives do not spin up to 7200RPM, even when heavy demand is placed on them.
Due to the slower rotational speed and lower data density, the Samsung F1 hard drives are roughly 60% faster than this drive.
The WD GreenPower drives are not variable speed drives, each model in the line has a different, fixed RPM.
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/greenpower/technology.asp?language=en
The last sentance of the 'IntelliPower' sections states this fact:
For each GreenPower drive model, WD may use a different, invariable RPM.
This is not a drive built for speed/performance. Its built for low heat/wattage/noise. Great for HTPC, poor for gaming.
the only way to go for gaming is the new velocirapator by WD
i think you're all missing the point here... a bargain 1TB drive... If you're looking for something with speed, of course it wouldn't be this cheap...
Frequency analysis tests at http://www.silentpcreview.com and rotational latency measurements at http://www.storagereview.com have shown that all tested GreenPower drives run at 5400rpm. WD intentionally obscures this by saying they may use RPMs from 5400-7200.
According to Storage Review, you lose 11-17% in transfer speed to save 50% in power consumption at idle and 30% under full seek. Worth the tradeoff for me.
The samsung F1 1TB hard drive, which is 60% faster than this one with only marginally higher heat and power draw, was on sale for $3 more than this price a couple days ago.