Green Harddrives

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  1. Posts : 6,618
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    Green Harddrives


    It is said that these drives use less electricity, so I assume that they must also run cooler...yes? If so, how much. Normally, I don't care about saving power, but if I get one of these, it will go into an external enclosure, which tends to run a little hotter.
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  2. Posts : 13,354
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    Yes, the green drives typically run cooler. I believe I have a green drive that runs about 10C cooler.
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  3. Posts : 6,618
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    10C would be good, that would more than offset the hotter environment. Do you think that temp difference would be typical? What I'm thinking about is a 2TB WDC drive that is on sale.
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  4. Posts : 13,354
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    You looking at that drive on TigerDirect? :)

    I'd say that drive would work well in an enclosure.
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  5. Posts : 6,618
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       #5

    Exactly.

    EDIT: Somewhere in the back of my mind, it seems that there is a problem with running that large of a drive with Windows 7...true?
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  6. Posts : 7,878
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    Going with the cooler drive in an enclosure is not a bad idea. Not to mention, you won't ever get the performance benefits of the non-green drive with an external enclosure...even with USB3.
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    I'm not sure what you mean by "performance benefits", please explain. The enclosure that I have is eSATA, if that makes any difference.
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    seekermeister said:
    I'm not sure what you mean by "performance benefits", please explain. The enclosure that I have is eSATA, if that makes any difference.
    "green" drives usually spin at 5,400 RPM and thus cannot transfer data quite as quickly as a 7,200RPM model. That's all I was getting at. I wouldn't usually suggest using it as an OS drive...but for an external enclosure it's just fine.
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  9. Posts : 2,528
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    seekermeister said:
    Exactly.

    EDIT: Somewhere in the back of my mind, it seems that there is a problem with running that large of a drive with Windows 7...true?
    I believe that that was XP... with older storage drivers.

    Vista and 7 have NO problem with that and possibly soon to be much larger drives...
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  10. Posts : 7,878
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    The only issue that I have seen with the 1TB+ hard drives is that they seem to have quite a high failure rate for some reason. In reading on sites like NewEgg and such, it just seems that the 1.5 and 2TB drives just seem to die more. Of course, i personally don't have any real world experience with them failing. 1TB drives have been sufficient for my needs, so I have just stuck with them.
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