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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Are those "green" drives any good?
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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...