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"
