Comments for: New Caviar Green hard drives are faster, more efficient

#1. Posted at 11:33 AM on Oct 1st 2008

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marvelous

In a small form factor I guess this makes sense but why?

#1, Do you mean why sacrifice performance for power? These are a... : cobalt (#4) «

#4, So how much power does it save? How much cooler is it com... : marvelous (#5) «

#5, It saves a few watts per drive, not much for desktops ... : MadManOriginal (#6) «

#6, 'Quiet' is a very big thing for OEMs. The average e... : ludi (#8) «

#8, I see what you're saying but there are lots of e... : MadManOriginal (#10) «

#10, Exactly. Chalk me down as a quiet computing e... : Voldenuit (#11) «

#11, ooo you have one of the 1.5TB drives. How ... : MadManOriginal (#12) «

#1, NAS. The drive is still faster than the NAS appliance, but r... : xii (#13) «

#9. Posted at 09:11 PM on Oct 1st 2008

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mattthemuppet

I just bought a WD6400AACS Green Power drive by accident - didn't even know it existed until I walked out of the shop with it :) Haven't installed it yet, but given how little power the 1TB GP drive draws, this should use very little power and make next to no noise.

Considering how old the drive is that it's replacing, I doubt I'd notice any difference in performance between this and a WD6400AAKS - both would be jaw dropping in comparison!

#7. Posted at 05:34 PM on Oct 1st 2008

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Voldenuit

$219? No thanks. Call me back when it's $129. :p

#3. Posted at 11:36 AM on Oct 1st 2008

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Steel

I noticed a new Samsung 5400RPM 1TB drive on Newegg today that sells for $10 less than the current WD GP drive. Would be interesting to see how it compares performance wise with the WD drives.

Link for those who are interested:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152135

#2. Posted at 11:33 AM on Oct 1st 2008

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MadManOriginal

At least we'll be able to clearly tell the difference based on specs with the larger cache unlike in the past when updated drives were impossible to discern on a website that only lists the basic model number.

As for price, on WD's website the current price for a retail kit of the 16MB cache version is also 219.99. So the price noted here will probably be meaningless as far as a street price as well and anything above $140-150 would be really hard to justify when the Seagate 1.5TB is at $190.