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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?
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On 9 May 2012 04:47, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As some know, I'm planning to buy me a LARGE hard drive to put all my
> videos on, eventually. =A0The prices are coming down now. =A0I keep seein=
g
> these "green" drives that are made by just about every company nowadays.
> =A0When comparing them to a non "green" drive, do they hold up as good?
> Are they as dependable as a plain drive? =A0I 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. =A0That muc=
h
> I have figured out. =A0Other than that, I can't see any other difference.
> =A0Data speeds seem to be about the same.
>

They have an ugly tendency to nod off at 6 second intervals.
This runs up "193 Load_Cycle_Count" unacceptably: as many
as a few hundred thousand in a year & a million cycles is
getting close to the lifetime limit on most hard drives.  I end
up running some iteration of
# hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda
every boot.