In fact, many of the Phantom and caviar 1TB USB external drives use this particular drive inside their enclosure. These are ideal in HTPC cases, or in a water cooled desktop where there is little airflow and or you are going for quietness, or in an external USB enclosure. Its a "green" power drive, which means it has a slower spindle speed (close to 5400rpm) which reduces power consumption, noise and heat. Pros: Well, this drive has its own niche. The last 4 drives I bought were 7200.10's 320GB and they're LOUD and have a very obnoxious and seemingly random click (that sounds more like the head slamming the side of the drive than a seek) I'm not sure if it has anything to do with the purchase of Maxtor, but their quality of late has really sufferred. Seagate is still my drive of choice for SCSI/SAS, however in the SATA / desktop world I avoid seagate like the plague. I've been dissapointed with Seagate for a couple of years now, and they were once the only brand I would buy. Overall Review: I put two 1TB greens in a mirror on an ICH8R and I couldn't be happier. If you want cheap or quiet storage and performance isn't your main concern I would definitely recommend this drive! If you're looking for performance go with the Caviar Black for a bit more money. In addition, it has a 32MB cache which is good for a low-power drive. BTW, I am a disk drive engineer and no, I don't work for WD.Pros: I've never in my life had such a quiet hard drive.
I use Raptors in my more performance-demanding computers. It's plenty fast enough for everything I ask of that computer. For an HTPC, it's a good trade-off though. You don't pay a huge penalty to be quiet and cool, but you pay some. They run so quiet and cool that I can put two of them in the HTPC and it's quieter than it was with one drive previously! Backups now take hours instead of days and don't rely on flaky network connections.Ĭons: If the ultimate in performance is important to you, this is not the drive to get. The WD 1TB Green Power drives solved the problem for me. But backing it up over a network as my total disk usage grew to hundreds of gigabytes of audio & video files is problematic it can take days and the probability of a crash is high. Pros: To keep noise down, I've always limited my HTPC to 1 hard drive. The trend towards higher data density benefits new 7200 RPM drives as new models are introduced (e.g, 1.5T drives have higher density AND higher RPM yielding even higher data transfer rates).
By providing higher data density, WD has equaled the sequential read/write performance of lower density 1T 7200 RPM drives. If a drive has higher density, its seek is not improved but its data transfer rate is faster. If a drive spins faster it can seek faster and transfer data faster. Overall Review: There are two main issues that influence speed – rotational speed and data density. Since the manufacturer does not report actual rotational speed, we don't know exactly what the speed of the 1T drives is, but it reported to be towards the lower end of the scale. Repeat, they do not spin faster when used heavily and slow down when not. So the 1T drives may spin at a different speed than the 750G may spin at a different speed as the 500G, etc. But the rotational speed CAN vary by model (i.e., capacity) within the GP series. This drive does NOT vary its rotational speed. Pros: I have 4 of these drives and thiink they are great for storing large audio and video files.Ĭons: So much confusion with the 5400-7200 RPM spec.
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