[GRLUG] Caviar black & green

[L. V. Lammert]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2010, Bob Kline wrote:

> Anyone have any war stories about
> WD Caviar blank & green hard drives?
>
> The green drives are cheap.  Less than half the
> price of same capacity black drives.
>
> So what might be the downside?
>
I wouldn't TOUCH any "green" drives - they come with 'spin down' code in
their firmware to shut them off after a period.

*IF* you are going to use them as transient devices it may be OK, but IME
there's no way to have them run continuously.

	Lee

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