Henrik Kaare Poulsen wrote: > Joel, I do not quite understand this. > > According to the Western Digital website, the three disks WD10TPVT, > WD6400BEVT, and WD5000BEVT have exactly the same specs for Current > Requirements and Power Dissipation:
if they've finally shipped a 500GB per platter 1GB 2.5" drive then great, but the reason it's taller is extra platter and you don't get more rotational mass for nothing. > Current Requirements > 5 VDC > Read/Write 500 mA > Idle 400 mA > Standby 50 mA > Sleep 20 mA > > Power Dissipation > Read/Write 2.50 Watts > Idle 0.85 Watts > Standby 0.25 Watts > Sleep 0.10 Watts > > So how can one model run hotter than the other, if the power I feed them > is the same? > > /Henrik > > On 22/02/2010 00:50 "Joel Jaeggli" <[email protected]> > <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: > > One thing to note (appart from the suggestions you've already received) > that the 1tb model is three platters (hence the extra height) and runs a > bit hotter than the analogous 640GB two platter model. > > Henrik /KaarPoSoft wrote: Dear all, > > I am considering to purchase a net5501 and build it into a FreeNAS. > I was looking at the WD Scorpio Blue 2.5” 1TB harddisk. > > However, the specs say that it has form-factor 2.5" x 1/6H. > Will it fit in the net5501 standard case with the 2.5" HDD mounting kit? > > I see many other hard-disks have 2.5" x 1/8H in the spec. > But I have not been able to dig up any information on what form factor > the net5501 standard case with 2.5" HDD mounting kit can actually > acomodate. > > Any info on this would be most appreciated. > > Best regards, > Henrik Kaare Poulsen _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
