[GRLUG] Caviar black & green

[Bob Kline]

Lots of colors now.....

My application would be backup,
and light use, in a home system, so
scorching performance is not an issue.

I'm thinking the green drive might be
the best bang for the buck.

Looking at the reviews in Amazon,
I see little to justify the typically
much higher prices for the WD black
drives, given my application.

   -- Bob


On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Dan Pilcheck <pilcheck at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bob,
>
> I have one of each in use at home,
> I keep my music and visuals on the black,
> my apps and occasionals on the blue,
> and the backups &rare accesses on the green.
> Generally,
> WD Green = 5400 rpm 16mb cache
> WD Blue = 7200 rpm 16 mb cache
> WD Black = 7200 rpm 32mb cache
>
> I'm led to believe that the green's consume less power.
>
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hmmmm.  Seagate green.  Now I'm
> > wondering what the black and green is
> > all about if it's not just a WD thing.
> > Overall it appears you've gotten a lot
> > of bang for the buck with the greens.
> > A "few years" in a RAID5 setup sounds
> > like pretty good service for $60.
> >     --  Bob
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I've had one Black 1TB out of three fail on me in the last year. It
> >> was part of a RAID0 at first, and most recently was part of an
> >> unstriped LVM volume group. We've still got most of a dozen or so
> >> 200GB Caviar Greens still floating around in various roles at the
> >> office. They spent a few years as part of a large RAID5, prior. I have
> >> no real complaints against the caviar line.
> >>
> >> Now, I'll heartily *recommend* Seagate 1.5TB greens; they survived a
> >> RAID5 I put them in for about a year, and are still alive in other
> >> roles. (That same RAID5 set had to undergo at least three rebuilds
> >> because of administrator failure, and of failure of other hardware
> >> components.)
> >>
> >> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> 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?
> >> >    -- Bob
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