Lots of colors now.....<div><br></div><div>My application would be backup,</div><div>and light use, in a home system, so</div><div>scorching performance is not an issue.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm thinking the green drive might be</div>
<div>the best bang for the buck.</div><div><br></div><div>Looking at the reviews in Amazon,</div><div>I see little to justify the typically </div><div>much higher prices for the WD black</div><div>drives, given my application. </div>
<div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Dan Pilcheck <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pilcheck@gmail.com">pilcheck@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Bob,<br>
<br>
I have one of each in use at home,<br>
I keep my music and visuals on the black,<br>
my apps and occasionals on the blue,<br>
and the backups &rare accesses on the green.<br>
Generally,<br>
WD Green = 5400 rpm 16mb cache<br>
WD Blue = 7200 rpm 16 mb cache<br>
WD Black = 7200 rpm 32mb cache<br>
<br>
I'm led to believe that the green's consume less power.<br>
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On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hmmmm. Seagate green. Now I'm<br>
> wondering what the black and green is<br>
> all about if it's not just a WD thing.<br>
> Overall it appears you've gotten a lot<br>
> of bang for the buck with the greens.<br>
> A "few years" in a RAID5 setup sounds<br>
> like pretty good service for $60.<br>
> -- Bob<br>
><br>
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Michael Mol <<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> I've had one Black 1TB out of three fail on me in the last year. It<br>
>> was part of a RAID0 at first, and most recently was part of an<br>
>> unstriped LVM volume group. We've still got most of a dozen or so<br>
>> 200GB Caviar Greens still floating around in various roles at the<br>
>> office. They spent a few years as part of a large RAID5, prior. I have<br>
>> no real complaints against the caviar line.<br>
>><br>
>> Now, I'll heartily *recommend* Seagate 1.5TB greens; they survived a<br>
>> RAID5 I put them in for about a year, and are still alive in other<br>
>> roles. (That same RAID5 set had to undergo at least three rebuilds<br>
>> because of administrator failure, and of failure of other hardware<br>
>> components.)<br>
>><br>
>> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > Anyone have any war stories about<br>
>> > WD Caviar blank & green hard drives?<br>
>> > The green drives are cheap. Less than half the<br>
>> > price of same capacity black drives.<br>
>> > So what might be the downside?<br>
>> > -- Bob<br>
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