Originally Posted by Nicb
I have to disagree. Green drives use a little less energy JUST to be true enough to claim a green label. I was not saying it's a scam or "some" few people could not benefit from having one or many together in a Raid. I see no reason for a dedicated comparison review when it comes to a small difference of energy green to high performance drives.

The difference is that the HDDs are designed with different priorities in mind. Vans and sports cars, remember?

Originally Posted by Nicb
I think the point of the review is; Hey you want to go "green" this is how much slower it is and the energy it uses. Do you see the benefit?

Except that the review did not look at the energy it uses, or its temperatures. All it says is: "It's slow".

Originally Posted by Nicb
CPU's?? You can not use the example of Intel Atom and a i7 comparison to a green or high performance drive comparison. Thats a whole different spectrum. CPU's define what the PC will be used for, they set the foundation of what you can expect from the setup. Drives on the other hand even though they do change the performance will not have "That Vast" of a difference.

Obviously they do --because they are designed for different purposes. There is a reason why people will go for expensive, smaller capacity, noisy, hot Raptors --they're very fast. There's a reason why people will pay a vast premium for real small capacity SSD drives --they're robust, fast and use little power. Other people may decide to pay a premium for capacity, low noise and low power/temperature. Who is to say that their criteria are less valid?

Originally Posted by Nicb
I think it is important to compare high performance with green drives. So you can see if it's worth it. And as for a regular computer "like most people have" I say they are not worth it for me.

FOR YOU perhaps not. But not everybody considers performance the most important criterion.

Greetings!

Its not that slow.
Check the Xbit-Labs review:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/1tb-14hdd-roundup.html

Man all these people arguing.

My point, why would you buy a drive that saves a little bit of power if it's just going to use this "saved power" by being active longer. In a car analagy it could be like this, driving slower means you use less gas per hour, but what if driving slower uses more MPG but less GPH? I would prefer overall efficiency.

If I were wanting something that was efficient I would prefer something that uses twice the power and gets the job done in a quarter of the time, not something that uses less power but takes longer to do it's job.

these drives are 300 on newegg, so why dont people just buy 3-1TB for the same price.