It's about the right tool for the job....the greens aren't the right
tool for desktop pc use, IMO....for tivos, dvrs, medias, etc., things
that run 24/7, the are fine. The 3 year warranty is an indication of
what WD things of the drives in general...obviously, 5 years is better
and users should get confidence in using those drives.
Oh...and n=1 should never be the basis for making a decision on a
product in terms of being good or not, especially for products that do
little other than store data...we all know that 5400rm ain't gonna be
fast...
On 11/7/2011 7:00 PM, Joshua MacCraw wrote:
Well, green is general product line there are 2 or 3 product codes 1 of
which is for av usage. EARX maybe?
As far as crappy or not I think you will find that many premade dvr's come
with wd green or equivalent brands models not 7200 rpm black models.
On Nov 7, 2011 1:01 PM, "Eli Allen"<[email protected]> wrote:
Don't think its the drive. I have two 2TB green drives using NTFS
spanning to make a single large drive in my media center computer. I
use the Centon cable card tuner to record 4 shows at once and all
shows record fine. Back when I was just using two ATI cable card
tuners I had a drive made from two 1TB green drives and that worked
fine too.
Eli
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Bino Gopal<[email protected]> wrote:
Ahh, but I record the same show on a cable DVR (nothing fancy there
right?) and when I check the show recorded on the cable box-no problems!
Sooo...not the signal...and I've had them come out and check my signal and
it's actually high-and I never see problems on the live TV like that, just
the recorded...so...think I just talked myself into replacing my Green with
a Black lol! :P
BINO
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 12:36:53 -0800
To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H] Wow hdds
At 12:17 PM 11/7/2011, you wrote:
Well, I have to say I have my suspicions on my Green 1TB which I put
in my TivoHD b/c everyone said a green would be cooler/better for
DVRs...thing has been choppy at times and missing bits of shows,
I have this problem when I record from my Hauppauge HD DVR but I have
never thought it was my equipment because this happens on some
channels when I am just watching...it happens a lot on PBS SOCAL. I
think it is either the broadcaster or the cable company.
and pretty slow to respond...and pretty sure the cable signal was
fine, so it seems to be the HD-I think if I upgrade again or decide
to replace this drive, I'd do it with a Black, heat-be-damned! :P
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 10:56:25 -0500
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H] Wow hdds
Well, these do come with a 3 year warranty. In my case,
non-critical
stuff will be on these.
How many greens have you seen, btw?
On 11/7/2011 10:43 AM, Bryan Seitz wrote:
I've seen lots of greens die young.
On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 10:41:41AM -0500, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
2TB WD green at best buy for $80 w/ free shipping.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Western+Digital+-+Caviar+Green+2TB+Internal+Serial+ATA+Hard+Drive/9234465.p?id=1218064150518&skuId=9234465&slref=10&slloc=01
On 11/6/2011 8:39 PM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
Well, puttin 10+ WD blacks in a movie box would be
pricey....I like them for boot unless I'm boot& data drives in a
production system.
Sent from my iPad
On Nov 6, 2011, at 8:29 PM, Thane
Sherrington<[email protected]> wrote:
At 09:59 AM 06/11/2011, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
It is a green drive...but I don't know what you mean by
"crappy". They work fine for streaming blu-ray over a network. I
could not use it for a boot drive, though.
I probably shouldn't say crappy, I just prefer the black
drives for durability.
T
