On 9 May 2012 04:47, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >
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.
