[GRLUG] Caviar black & green

[Michael Mol]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 4:29 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> 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.

Power saving commands exist in (nearly?) all drives' firmware. Your
operating system must invoke them itself, typically.

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