Hard drives, any faster these days?

[tensop]

Originally Posted by MR CHILLED

So it's the intelli drives that will do 5400-7200? These are different from green drives?

WD revoked all claims to the disks having a variable motor speed. They're 5400rpm.

[Hive]

Originally Posted by andyroo54

Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB looks pretty good.. I think we have a winner..

I'm running two blacks, one is the older sata 2 one, the other is an FAEX with sata 3.

Get decent speeds and access times

[MR CHILLED]

Originally Posted by tensop

WD revoked all claims to the disks having a variable motor speed. They're 5400rpm.

Well I didn't know that. Plenty of websites are listing these intellidrives and when I research intelli drives they are listed as being variable 5400-7200 drives. What is going on here exactly?

[andyroo54]

Hey

Just today I bought a 500GB WB elements for $99 from dicksmith, 1TB was only $18 more but it had an AC Adapter, and they are a pain in the ass especially because I will transfer the external from PC to projector USB only is just easier.

ANYWAY, I don't feel I need the 1TB WD caviar, and the 500GB Caviar is $40 bucks less, the only differnce I can see is that the 1TB says 6gb/2 and 64MB cache, while the 500GB says 3gb/s and 32mb cache.

Is there going to be a massive differnce between these drives?

[3Tone]

Originally Posted by tensop

WD revoked all claims to the disks having a variable motor speed. They're 5400rpm.

Can you show me proof of this? So far nobody has been able to prove otherwise.

[Hive]

Originally Posted by 3Tone

Can you show me proof of this? So far nobody has been able to prove otherwise.

The drives wouldnt be cheap if they had adaptive spindle speeds....

Who would go into all that R&D to implement that.

Greens drives run at 5400RPM and park the heads after 8 seconds of inactivity

[3Tone]

Yeh awesome bro... I still see no proof.

[Hive]

Not official, but do you see the trend

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=e...=&oq=&gs_rfai=

[Alpha2k6]

Samsung EcoGreen F4 2TB will become avalible in September.

Originally Posted by yellow_cake

i need more internal storage.. so 2tb is a must for me.. its a shame Samsung dont make the F3 in 2TB capacity (well they do but its an EcoGreen hdd which is the same as the WD Green)

[Pablo_H]

Just avoid them altogether and get the samusng f2 eco green drives for storage instead of the WD greens.
I have a couple for storage and they are quiet. I've had them since november last year.

[3Tone]

Originally Posted by Hive

Not official, but do you see the trend

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=e...=&oq=&gs_rfai=

Yeh just as many saying the opposite:

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=e...+speed&spell=1

[MR CHILLED]

Well I'd like some official confirmation here, or otherwise.

[NNNG]

If I recall correctly, WD said that their disks spin at 'between' 5400rpm and 7200rpm. Not variable, but between the two numbers. They now list the rotational speed as 'intellipower'.

I'm pretty sure it's 5400rpm...

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article786-page2.html

Also it takes a few seconds for a disk to spool up, it would be a very very bad idea to have a disk automatically turn off as soon as it's not in use because it would increase latencies hugely, and would also increase cycles on the disk probably reducing life. IMO, it's only a good idea to do that using software on storage disks only, but pretty much any disk can do that... my old 160gb WD can.

And it would be a bad idea to have a variable RPM drive for the same reason, and it would also mean optimizing the disk for a range of different rpms instead of one, which would probably cost efficiency...




Get a Samsung ecogreen F4 for storage, imo. not sure if they're out.
Samsung Spinpoint f3 or WD black for performance/space imo.


I'm happy with my Western Digital Green 1TB WD10EARS, was only $63 too.

[karlcloudy]

Originally Posted by NNNG

If I recall correctly, WD said that their disks spin at 'between' 5400rpm and 7200rpm. Not variable, but between the two numbers. They now list the rotational speed as 'intellipower'.

I'm pretty sure it's 5400rpm...

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article786-page2.html

Also it takes a few seconds for a disk to spool up, it would be a very very bad idea to have a disk automatically turn off as soon as it's not in use because it would increase latencies hugely, and would also increase cycles on the disk probably reducing life.

And it would be a bad idea to have a variable RPM drive for the same reason, and it would also mean optimizing the disk for a range of different rpms instead of one, which would probably cost efficiency...




Get a Samsung ecogreen F4 for storage, imo. not sure if they're out.
Samsung Spinpoint f3 or WD black for performance/space imo.

Well this is how WD defines IntelliPower:

IntelliPower - A fine-tuned balance of spin speed, transfer rate and caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance.

To some this up in one word, IntellPower = bullshit

They are being marketed (still) by many shops as "7200rpm" drives when clearly, they aren't. if their algoritm actually did dynamically reduce the RPM it wouldn't be so far behind the WD Black I doubt.

[NNNG]

Originally Posted by karlcloudy

Well this is how WD defines IntelliPower:



To some this up in one word, IntellPower = bullshit

They just don't want to advertise their disks at 5400rpm. Not bad disks though, I love my WD10EARS.