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There's a very good deal on a 5TB green WD that I intend to catch. However I hear that green WDs might be slower than other drives. I know that the RPM speed for green drives are is mentioned and is called IntelliPower.
Actually I don't understand the RPM thing. I don't really care about this number. I need a simple approach that I can understand. I mean, for example, what would my read and write speeds be? 10 MB/s maybe? what would my copy speed be? Is there a range? Would it vary depending on the size of the files maybe? If so, How?
Also I saw some forums about some people complaining about a 500 KB/s copy speed. What about that? Do all green WDs experience this speed in some condition? Or is it just them? Or does it depend on something?
One more thing. I intend to place my OSs on an SSD. I intend to use the green just for storage. I don't really care to have a super-speedy HDD but I don't want to get stuck with a turtle (which, awkwardly enough, is also green XD).
Any kind of any help is appreciated :D I hope I get to meet people who own green WDs and have experience with them. Thanks in advance :)
I mentioned that in bold!! 4th paragraph. @Dave – Mina Michael – 2014-12-24T21:51:42.663
1copy speeds have several factors including size. If you are copying 10,000 files total 1MB a single 1MB file will transfer much faster. Each file has to be open,read, and copied therefore that is 30,000 operations and 1 single file has 3. – cybernard – 2014-12-24T21:57:12.617
2A WD Green drive is perfectly fine for storage purposes but be aware that it does goes into a "sleep" mode after some inactivity and if you go to access a file while it is in sleep mode then you have to wait very briefly (1-5 seconds) for the HDD to spin up and read the requested file/folder. This "sleep mode" has been attributed to shortened life expectancy for the HDD due to how often it "parks" the head. So don't keep any important files on the 5TB unless you are fully prepared to lose them all. – MonkeyZeus – 2014-12-24T22:04:24.117
Then it comes down to the average size of your files. If your average is 8+mb performance slow downs should minimal. Everyone read small files sometimes, but it is not until you read many in a row that performance falls. For example, 10 small files in 1gb of data will be unnoticeable. – cybernard – 2014-12-24T22:04:38.153
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If you would like to learn more about this amazing green technology then you can check out this article. http://www.instantfundas.com/2011/12/intellipark-makes-western-digital-green.html There is a reason you are catching such a "good deal" on this green drive and that's because other people know enough to stay away for the most part. Pay the price now or pay it later. It scares me to see the number of desktops which are sold with these drives installed as the boot drive.
– MonkeyZeus – 2014-12-24T22:06:02.277@MonkeyZeus intellipark turns out to be a disaster for me! I'm a linux! Do you know how to disable? PLEASE SAY YES :'( – Mina Michael – 2014-12-24T22:15:23.630
@MonkeyZeus sorry I hadn't had read the article to the end. apparently yes XD THANK YOU FOR THIS TIP! I WOULD HAVE NVER FOUND OUT ABOUT INTELLIPARK – Mina Michael – 2014-12-24T22:35:41.287
I have not met a WD green drive yet that the idle time could not be adjusted even though the program information on the web does not support it http://superuser.com/questions/735209/smart-brand-new-western-digital-hard-disk-showing-very-high-load-cycle-count/735215?s=3%7C0.1375#735215
– Psycogeek – 2014-12-24T23:20:18.527