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 1SS71m-0003Qg-5f for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 May 2012 13:34:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3D126E08AF; Wed, 9 May 2012 13:33:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a52.g.dreamhost.com (caibbdcaaaaf.dreamhost.com [208.113.200.5]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03AB1E0845 for ; Wed, 9 May 2012 13:30:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a52.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homiemail-a52.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A6036B80F9 for ; Wed, 9 May 2012 06:30:52 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=libertytrek.org; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s= libertytrek.org; b=koZ+NQBa7chJZ29JqKfaYLjAQsP1m0A9LV5Y82LOnfUpi IdV+S9qrG3zAlZwKLVRJGywyd5YOnc/TOQ3RWp/coXDITN5ipmHIeat2sILQAUBk JYJujA5Iy8T48jYloYLhvyEBcfn0iQXqXIdL+AAfozFpSHd1op1uc6hm72EFB0= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=libertytrek.org; h= message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s= libertytrek.org; bh=dFjnvWomI543FiNYGQ/xviPKqF8=; b=zLjZ+paSMGvs PCEymFrZkDiH2Qzgmxr1RuER8Hze1kkOcc70V78Pb8NAhRKaBggoZxmii5re88KP BsreVoayxQSBXv7tmwR8clUTJq9iXR4+qmmiAO71DnvLaRzkWt+cnVbP4K5Ulz7k C8BTf4GB0p6ncBwGL0Ucy3zoOhsSXlE= Received: from [127.0.0.1] (50-76-228-201-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [50.76.228.201]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: tanstaafl@libertytrek.org) by homiemail-a52.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1BE586B80ED for ; Wed, 9 May 2012 06:30:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FAA718C.5070000@libertytrek.org> Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 09:30:52 -0400 From: Tanstaafl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good? References: <4FAA2F0D.8080900@gmail.com> <4FAA595A.4040202@libertytrek.org> <4FAA5DD3.70206@trausch.us> In-Reply-To: <4FAA5DD3.70206@trausch.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 68a9dde3-2837-42f3-8be5-fdc06aba2826 X-Archives-Hash: e2d5db8b08f83dcccb295a3fef145385 On 2012-05-09 8:06 AM, mike@trausch.us wrote: > AFAIK, the only technical difference between a consumer drive and an > enterprise one is that the enterprise one doesn't tell lies. Or at > least, it isn't supposed to. There's a bit more to it than that... http://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/sb/enterprise_class_versus_desktop_class_hard_drives_.pdf