From: Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?
Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 07:47:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FAA595A.4040202@libertytrek.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FAA2F0D.8080900@gmail.com>
On 2012-05-09 4:47 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> As some know, I'm planning to buy me a LARGE hard drive to put all my
> videos on, eventually. The prices are coming down now. I keep seeing
> these "green" drives that are made by just about every company nowadays.
> When comparing them to a non "green" drive, do they hold up as good?
As long as you don't use them in any kind of RAID setup you they should
be fine.
The biggest difference between them and 'enterprise' class drives is the
enterprise class drives are designed for multi-drive RAID setups... you
don't want drives to spin down independently when working in a RAID setup...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-09 11:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 119+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-09 8:47 [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good? Dale
2012-05-09 9:25 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-09 9:52 ` Dale
2012-05-09 11:32 ` Daniel Troeder
2012-05-09 11:51 ` Dale
2012-05-10 19:39 ` David Haller
2012-05-09 21:28 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-09 22:24 ` Dale
2012-05-09 22:48 ` Paul Hartman
2012-05-09 23:49 ` Dale
2012-05-10 1:39 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-10 1:52 ` Adam Carter
2012-05-10 12:53 ` Todd Goodman
2012-05-09 23:37 ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-09 23:58 ` Dale
2012-05-10 7:03 ` Mick
2012-05-10 11:55 ` napalm
2012-05-10 12:38 ` Dale
2012-05-10 13:27 ` napalm
2012-05-10 21:39 ` Dale
2012-05-10 22:53 ` Paul Hartman
2012-05-11 0:07 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-05-11 1:10 ` David Haller
2012-05-10 19:38 ` David Haller
2012-05-10 21:13 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-09 11:47 ` Tanstaafl [this message]
2012-05-09 12:06 ` mike
2012-05-09 13:30 ` Tanstaafl
2012-05-09 12:29 ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-09 16:39 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-09 17:28 ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-09 18:42 ` Paul Hartman
2012-05-09 18:53 ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-10 14:20 ` [gentoo-user] make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails Michael Scherer
2012-05-10 14:50 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-10 19:57 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-10 21:08 ` Stroller
2012-05-11 1:01 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-11 5:18 ` Joshua Murphy
2012-05-11 12:59 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-11 17:56 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-11 10:20 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-11 22:48 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-05-12 1:31 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-12 18:17 ` walt
2012-05-14 1:44 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-14 2:13 ` ny6p01
2012-05-14 15:26 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-14 15:37 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-14 15:52 ` ny6p01
2012-05-26 11:18 ` luis jure
2012-05-26 13:56 ` ny6p01
2012-05-14 16:13 ` Allan Gottlieb
2012-05-14 17:13 ` Dale
2012-05-14 20:54 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-15 0:46 ` Dale
2012-05-15 17:01 ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-15 17:15 ` Dale
2012-05-15 21:12 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-18 12:29 ` Willie WY Wong
2012-05-15 17:25 ` john
2012-05-15 23:26 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-05-16 0:41 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-17 16:14 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-17 17:05 ` Dale
2012-05-17 19:13 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-17 17:13 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-05-17 18:58 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-17 17:47 ` Tanstaafl
2012-05-17 19:14 ` ny6p01
2012-05-17 19:25 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-17 23:56 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-05-17 19:29 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-17 21:10 ` Michael Mol
2012-05-17 18:06 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-17 20:13 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-17 20:50 ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2012-05-21 3:24 ` Joshua Murphy
2012-07-03 11:11 ` [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails [SOLVED] Michael Scherer
2012-05-17 20:51 ` [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails Michael Scherer
2012-05-17 20:59 ` Alex Schuster
2012-05-23 2:10 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-23 6:05 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-19 3:18 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-05-19 16:59 ` Arttu V.
2012-05-26 11:33 ` luis jure
2012-05-14 18:25 ` Tanstaafl
2012-05-14 19:11 ` Alecks Gates
2012-05-14 19:23 ` Michael Mol
2012-05-15 0:03 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-15 0:05 ` Alecks Gates
2012-05-15 0:16 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-14 20:51 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-14 21:01 ` Michael Mol
2012-05-14 21:24 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-14 21:53 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-05-14 23:23 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-14 23:35 ` Michael Mol
2012-05-14 23:26 ` Michael Mol
2012-05-14 23:55 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-14 21:56 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-05-09 13:15 ` [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good? Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-05-09 22:37 ` Dale
2012-05-10 16:20 ` Norman Invasion
2012-05-10 18:01 ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-10 18:13 ` Norman Invasion
2012-05-10 18:51 ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-12 9:34 ` Mick
2012-05-12 9:49 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-05-13 9:35 ` David Haller
2012-05-10 19:24 ` David Haller
2012-05-11 1:15 ` Bill Kenworthy
2012-05-12 18:50 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-05-13 9:38 ` David Haller
2012-05-21 21:05 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-05-21 22:44 ` Andrew Hoffman
2012-05-10 19:36 ` David Haller
2012-05-10 21:25 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-05-10 20:17 ` Mark Knecht
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