[GRLUG] USB 3, SATA - 6Gbps

[Luan Pham]

On Sun, 2010-04-04 at 12:55 -0400, mikemol at gmail.com wrote:
> Low power consumption, for a magnetic hard disk. It's my understanding
> that they don't run at the standard 5600 or 7200 rpm seeds, but
> "somewhere" between them. (Perhaps there's a bit of tolerance leeway
> allowing less cost in manufacturing, too. Dunno.)
> 
> We're using a few Caviar Greens in a RAID5 at work, and while they get
> the job done, they do it a bit slower than a drive intended for quick
> random access.

I bought one of these last year from newegg.com, and it dead on arrival.
The second one I got it had been work really good so far.