A lot of people think these "green" drives are slower due to the power savings features. This is totally false. They perform no different than a non-"green" drive. They worked perfect, two of them in raid0 to add 1.5TB to my fileserver, while running...
1 month going and running strong ; Drives run nice and cool; 30C in a case with 5 drives total, 10C cooler than other system drives ; Setup two of these in a raid0 array in linux. No problems ; So far no reliability problems, since they run cooler than...
My older hardware wasn't able to utilize more than 85MB/sec transfer rate in raid0 while mounted XFS in linux ; Unmounted the raw drives go 125MB/sec ; The drives are faster than my old Athlon 2500+ computer with a PCI SATA card ; The drive itself is a...