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 1SSFYW-0001Ga-44 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 May 2012 22:40:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 902ACE0764; Wed, 9 May 2012 22:40:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-f181.google.com (mail-ob0-f181.google.com [209.85.214.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 426CCE0941 for ; Wed, 9 May 2012 22:38:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obbuo19 with SMTP id uo19so1054073obb.40 for ; Wed, 09 May 2012 15:37:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=osyn6L78NAdLBZ+QLNiVmMijkqVX48W0hmT+YkgqNQA=; b=q+VpKPBU6v4ynsvQUW1pWUW/tnZ6kOlCxaieNjp5y8aeujFty/sozS6UG6b7QPsB6U tXcLv+W/9RkMA1lXCQc0BH8PjPoR3/rNYJ6XIZ5pv9k7qErpx1VkORmo9UBHcvYJSWZJ MSL3OUMXXKMNQg/I/r0RpQxFtH1GLtQMWfK9lei+sdn2urkW8d0ZU+NlUmPvd6azVOx8 oSJuoegIaQaValoF4MbdKYonN3uwvjsAoju7aBcR0JCKEzUQSSYVadR7xyuxsfEnLsSR UwR9yM+cu25ZKXeD4pCIqFn8aSFIfu5J9I52VZL/9l4YYzGK/hZ70qG6Vgdb3z/ipnhD FzMA== Received: by 10.182.52.105 with SMTP id s9mr2774914obo.48.1336603079720; Wed, 09 May 2012 15:37:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-66-173.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.66.173]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ka4sm4152865obb.14.2012.05.09.15.37.57 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 09 May 2012 15:37:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FAAF1C3.2090809@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 17:37:55 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120508 Firefox/12.0 SeaMonkey/2.9.1 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 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good? References: <4FAA2F0D.8080900@gmail.com> <3327317.17W7Uz9V2E@energy> In-Reply-To: <3327317.17W7Uz9V2E@energy> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 462fcffd-64a3-4f40-a98d-237e77132c51 X-Archives-Hash: 6e46a7a3a3907d58c6eb6c15036cf237 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 :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"