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 1SSWGN-0001Z0-2t for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 May 2012 16:30:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D4673E0B27; Thu, 10 May 2012 16:30:26 +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 B671AE0905 for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 16:28:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obbuo19 with SMTP id uo19so2370113obb.40 for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 09:28:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=6ccbeUW8Eup9DrhIRvr9+yMx4cISjFsU03Q95y7SaJ8=; b=Rn9QI7mQIsKX5q/KiOM2YXEFNhs15L/Q5bPJJkVD/MsD0UHU8hnmx/+0g8eT92glxW EH35jhUwDzgMb8rr4RiJ861bhIqGHchkVuHOxIr5q00krxf+22Mbt/K1WX1dPXD3m57r ggCd31ZRnBD67TtzCP21LBA51C2N6Vp2tM0X5UuU2i7wIPmUbq+dTz3NOwgfPZXD7KpL Js5rdG4JbleD9IVfscHNHwSCRoKA1AXMg/Yt2wSLzarUyQ10WeKGo8GBx4xb8f7ps3IN hCpgS2owCDskb6tQlv4mf3OYDv40fth0alfUe1Z2D9GM9yJRcavoQOMPdPHmKedNISSr sZWg== 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 Received: by 10.182.2.193 with SMTP id 1mr1144738obw.46.1336666857383; Thu, 10 May 2012 09:20:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.182.182.74 with HTTP; Thu, 10 May 2012 09:20:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4FAA2F0D.8080900@gmail.com> References: <4FAA2F0D.8080900@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 12:20:57 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good? From: Norman Invasion To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 966aef92-1d7e-4c54-a5aa-aa30eaeeda00 X-Archives-Hash: 519b504c26d8701a6c1e365241e9a8f7 On 9 May 2012 04:47, Dale 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.