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From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Are those "green" drives any good?
Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 17:37:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FAAF1C3.2090809@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3327317.17W7Uz9V2E@energy>

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 9. Mai 2012, 03:47:09 schrieb Dale:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 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?
>> Are they as dependable as a plain drive?  I guess they are more
>> efficient and I get that but do they break quicker, more often or no
>> difference?
>>
>> I have noticed that they tend to spin slower and are cheaper.  That much
>> I have figured out.  Other than that, I can't see any other difference.
>>  Data speeds seem to be about the same.
>>
>> Please, no brand wars.  I may get a WD, Maxtor, Samsung or some other
>> brand.  I haven't picked that part yet.  So far, I have had good luck
>> with drives.  I think I have one doorstop so far.  I have at least one
>> of each of the brands above too.  Don't jinx me.  I'm sure someone has a
>> horror story about some brand.
>>
>> Thanks much.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
> 
> samsung here. Put that beast into an esata case. Sometimes I forget to turn it 
> off, because it is so silent. And cool. The others should be similar. They are 
> slower, yes, but fast enough to watch video.
> 
> 7200 for stuff that needs some speed.
> 5400 for video and backups.
> 
> just fine.
> 


My videos and such is on a Samsung 750Gb drive now.  I'm pretty sure it
is a 7200rpm drive tho.  My whole system is quiet.  I have a Cooler
Master HAF-932 case with those LARGE fans and you can't hear anything.
Even if I cut everything else off in this room, I can't hear the system
at all.  Let's keep in mind that I am getting older tho.  ;-)

One reason I am considering the green drives is that I can buy a larger
drive for about the same price.  I use LVM so I added a 250Gb drive to
the 750Gb to get 1Tb.  Thing is, I'll have that full to before to long.
 I need to go ahead and get a large drive.  Even a 2Tb drive will be
about half full if I transfer it all over.  Of course I'm keeping the
750Gb to tho.  Here is where I am with all drives in use.

/dev/mapper/data-data1  923G  619G  297G  68% /data

I start looking when I get to about 70% and by 85%, I want some hardware
or a plan to move things around or something.

Dale

:-)  :-)

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-09 22:40 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
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 [this message]
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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