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I'd buy this if it came with an autographed picture of that Global Warming guy who invented the internet.
You mean the legitimate 43rd president of the US?
First time I've seen the WD this low.
I'd buy this if I wanted a good reliable storage drive from a great hard drive manufacturer that uses less power (meaning less heat for slow people), essentially giving me an ideal storage drive at a great price, but maybe that's just me.
...if i needed a drive i would totally get this. i love my WD WD10EADS.
I've got the 500gb version of this drive (two actually in mirrored RAID) and it is fantastic for raw storage, not so much for OS or applications but we all know that by now. This is a fantastic price for the 1.5gb version, I might pick up two and expand my RAID array.
these 5400 -or- 7200 ??
Yes.
I've got the 500gb version of this drive (two actually in mirrored RAID) and it is fantastic for raw storage, not so much for OS or applications but we all know that by now. This is a fantastic price for the 1.5gb version, I might pick up two and expand my RAID array.
#7 It uses Intellipower aka variable rpm but most retailers list it as 7200 rpm
I think I'd rather have 2 of these than the Seagate 2-pack posted earlier. Same price and I don't have to mess with firmware updates on these.
It looks like it has 4 platters (or more?) so it may not be the fastest HDD, but I think this would be a great value for a backup disk.
I see it has 32MB Cache like Caviar Black... but does this have 2 microprocessors like the Caviar Black drives?
closer to 5400.
Intellipower is not variable RPM. If a retailer lists it as 7200RPM, that is incorrect, and it's likely listed that way because they are copying from Western Digital's BS marketing, which is misleading.
I could say that my hard drive spins at a speed that is between 5,000 RPM and 100,000 RPM. It's true, but it's misleading. That's exactly what WD is doing.
If you look up the 1tb Western Digital GreenPower drive on newegg, you'll note that there is no RPM listed. Even if you look at the drive specs on WD's website for their GP 1tb drive, you won't see any RPM listed.
Western Digital has been trying to cover up the lower invariable RPM for some time now. But, if you dig a little deeper into their website, you'll find this:
According to latency calculations done by a review site, the actual rotational speed of their GP 1tb hard drive is right about 5400RPM.
Here are comments on this from a few different reviews:
You do lose quite a bit of performance from this. From the reviews I've looked at, the 1tb GreenPower drives are about 40-60% slower than, say, the Samsung F1 1tb drives.
If, as you claim, the drive were to speed up to 7200RPM when there's a high load, it should get the same sustained read and write speeds as other hard drives with the same platter densities. Yet, it's significantly slower. This is because it's stuck spinning at 5400RPM.
And, how do you think that varying the speed would save power? If you speed up the disk whenever there's a higher demand, you have to expend energy to accelerate the drive. This is a lot more energy than you use to just keep the platter spinning at a constant speed. So, varying the speed would likely result in more power usage, not less. Of course, it's hard to say for sure, since no hard drive manufacturer has done it yet, and it's unlikely to happen anytime soon.
Oh gosh, if I was a chic, I would totally fall for CompWiz17. You're awesome dude - for cereal!
You have the best advice/comments on the popular items. i love it. keep it up and thanks
Also, I would like to hear from you (CompWiz17) about the 2x 1.5TB pack from Dell for the Seagate 7200.11 if you got some free time.
You don't "lose" any performance on this, and it's not "stuck". It's meant for a different purpose. Yes, "green" drives are typically slower, which is what makes them "green". Not the best performing drive, but a great scondary/backup cooler-running drive... and Comp "Wiz", thanks for taking the time to verbosely repeat and convolute the experts that you quoted.... you were doing so well until you said something yourself...
I agree scaht, these size green drives should only be used as storage/backup drives.