Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (WD10EADS)

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Does anyone know the spindle speed of these drives?

I have an 80GB WD sata 2 caviar blue and 2 older WD IDE drive's i want to get rid of.

The IDE drives have all sorts on, media, games etc etc

If I got a Caviar green drive to install games on would I notice a loss in performance?

All this less power usage and less noise is making me think less speed etc

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Hehe, have just this second being comparing this drive to a sam spinpoint f1. Apparently, the exact spin speed is unknown, but the several tests I have just read say the speed is closer to 5400 rpm.
 
suarve said:
Hehe, have just this second being comparing this drive to a sam spinpoint f1. Apparently, the exact spin speed is unknown, but the several tests I have just read say the speed is closer to 5400 rpm.
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I believed the speed of these varied depending on usage.

I have several western digital sata drives 320gb, 280gb, and 160gb( I can't remember exactly which models) but the green 1tb is faster than them all
 
There is a possibility that the smaller GP drives do have true variable spin speed but the 1Tb is definitely fixed - I think it was storagereview who throughoughly tested one and it showed no signs (acoustically, power drain etc) of changing speed.

They are pretty quick mind you, the high data density on the platters makes up for the reduced spin speed somewhat. The random access time is a tad slow though.
 
Ade74 said:
I believed the speed of these varied depending on usage.

I have several western digital sata drives 320gb, 280gb, and 160gb( I can't remember exactly which models) but the green 1tb is faster than them all
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Hummmm, interesting. Do you have any games installed on this drive?
 
rpstewart said:
There is a possibility that the smaller GP drives do have true variable spin speed but the 1Tb is definitely fixed - I think it was storagereview who throughoughly tested one and it showed no signs (acoustically, power drain etc) of changing speed.

They are pretty quick mind you, the high data density on the platters makes up for the reduced spin speed somewhat. The random access time is a tad slow though.
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Any performance details when running games?
 
I moved from a Seagate 7200.11 750Gb to the WD10EACS (16mb cache) and I didn't honestly notice any difference.

I've now got 2x WD10EADS and 1x WD10EACS in RAID5 with a 40Gb system partition and the rest as shortterm storage and they appear to fly.
In BF2, the loading screen goes 1%, 2%, 5%. DONE. It used to take about 10secs to get to 62% where it would stick for 10-15 seconds then 5-seconds to finish. Now it's 5 seconds and I'm in.
 
I have a WHS with the following 1TB drives in,

WD GP 16mb
WD GP 32mb
Seagate 7200.11

The first 32mb GP I received was DOA, however the second is a few degrees cooler than the Seagate.

HD Tach reports,

Seagate - Avg read 90mbs
WD GP 32mb - Avg read 80mbs
WD GP 16mb - Avg read 75mbs

I would have liked to see is a 5 year warranty on the drive though
 
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