From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SSakf-0002Gl-5C for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 May 2012 21:18:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A3C33E0CBF; Thu, 10 May 2012 21:18:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f181.google.com (mail-wi0-f181.google.com [209.85.212.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35770E0A62 for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 21:16:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhn14 with SMTP id hn14so982684wib.10 for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 14:16:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=oC4vqVz18QLF4Rw/mENMR6z6bZHJoK9hXhQXUPmezgA=; b=iTJ0tnNlksy5+uWBEWhVsx+7H51XfAlT0Aa2ScTq4Dh9Pyib+mdEU/vyzuc2b3BGvs PsWx3B1YkTUPbyRVCogDwEQw3tGdZBK8L+18KBH7PZLvfmFOvIL7PAZflEaDuXvXBy+P 0v3GDRfvLBk/q60rjECmnLQ7Syg+he/zAfzs2iAodWbJWOiJWtVcaOWIsznXysJxRIgl CFbR041yAVS41prX6tT/Y/mKlBMAiJrPN4QbH7jGQ0xxcP7Z88k8Sc+HQh8zc7m5382q 5c2GGvIaQNf8RMnXKFT4rjnaTbccB6czrD1OtaG42ObfzuooA6PhtFxL3UnTtEUBPzfN pbnw== Received: by 10.216.198.1 with SMTP id u1mr3399wen.92.1336684587379; Thu, 10 May 2012 14:16:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from khamul.example.com (196-209-227-85.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.209.227.85]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ex2sm9239798wib.8.2012.05.10.14.16.24 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 10 May 2012 14:16:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 23:13:43 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good? Message-ID: <20120510231344.128dd9be@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: <20120510193820.GC21418@grusum.endjinn.de> References: <4FAA2F0D.8080900@gmail.com> <20120509112543.6021e1f8@khamul.example.com> <20120510193820.GC21418@grusum.endjinn.de> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7e7fe300-7122-4a34-acd3-75d2bed80e1e X-Archives-Hash: 4aec126252834a8bc59ec83d3badf86b On Thu, 10 May 2012 21:38:20 +0200 David Haller wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, 09 May 2012, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >One thing we have noticed is that Samsung's recent model are not very > >"green", they spin up slowly, use lots of power and make a racket > >when spinning. But they do work. > > Which ones? I've got one of all Models of the last years, and to none > applies what you're saying. > > -dnh > I wasn't talking from my experience, I was talking from my developer colleagues' experience. I'll find out which drive models they used. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com