[GRLUG] USB 3, SATA - 6Gbps

[Steve Romanow]

On 4/5/2010 9:16 AM, Luan Pham wrote:
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> On Sun, 2010-04-04 at 12:55 -0400, mikemol at gmail.com wrote:
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>> 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.
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I have one that is working well.