Mwave - $99.99 + postage - Western Digital 3.5" Caviar Green 1TB HDD, SATAII, 8MB Cache (WD10EAVS)

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aldog on 24/07/2009 - 17:57 mwave.com.au (410 clicks)
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Got this deal in my email - yet another 1TB disk for $100.

Features:

• Reduced power consumption
• Helps enable eco-friendly PCs
• Perfect for green external drives

Specifications:

• Performance Specifications
  • Rotational Speed: IntelliPower (5400 to 7200 RPM)
  • Buffer Size: 8 MB
  • Average Latency: 5.60 ms (nominal)
  • Start/Stop Cycles: 50,000 minimum
• Seek Times
  • Read Seek Time: 8.9 ms
• Transfer Rates
  • Buffer To Host (Serial ATA): 3 Gb/s (Max)
  • Buffer To Disk: 1,156 Mb/s
• Physical Specifications
  • Formatted Capacity: 1,000,204 MB
  • Capacity: 1 TB
  • Interface SATA: 3 Gb/s
  • User Sectors Per Drive: 1,953,525,168

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  bashar20 on 24/07/2009 - 18:25

  its 5400 to 7200 RPM and not 7200 RPM.

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    ESEMCE on 24/07/2009 - 18:31

    +3

    The difference being when it's in power saving mode it's at 5400rpm and when it's reading/writing data it's at 7200rpm I presume? (rather than just 7200rpm or zero)
    it's a 7200rpm capable drive.. the fact it has power saving tech that slows the drive when you don't need the speed or the high pitched whine is not a negative thing in my opinion.

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      HueyData on 01/08/2009 - 13:35

      WD Caviar Green drives have fixed rotational speed, depending on the model (and whatever WD feels like).

      Dynamic rotational speed is a complete furphy, intentionally implied by WD to confuse the speed issue. See the looong discussion in the WD10EADS deal.

      It's safest to expect a 5400rpm drive and take that into consideration of your storage/performance requirements.

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  skinny on 24/07/2009 - 21:52

  Add shipping: VIC - $14.63, NSW - $10.00

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  thorpef1 on 24/07/2009 - 22:59

  8mb cache is a bit disappointing

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  mazpantz on 25/07/2009 - 00:32

  IntelliPower (5400 to 7200 RPM)

  What does that mean? Never seen that before…

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    mad1dude on 25/07/2009 - 01:03

    Didn't you see the comment by scubacoles above?

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  bargainy on 25/07/2009 - 08:58

  +1

  It's a 5400rpm drive, not 5400-7200rpm, despite what some resellers say.

  Good drive, quiet, and low power. Unless you are running a server in a shared environment you shouldn't get hung up on bullshit about latency, transfer speed and cache.