Is anyone using WD "Green drives" in WN? A vendor is offering us servers
with them:
1000GB SATA / Western Digital WD10EACS v3 / 16MB cache / Green Power
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=336
Non-GreenPower 7200rpm drives would be ca.+£50.
I've heard bad+good about these. Some say they're 7200rpm rejects so WD
calls them 5900RPM. Seagate has a fairly inflammatory article about them:
http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/whitepaper/mb_intellipower_exposed.pdf
WD is now advertising "7200RPM" Green Drives on Insight, so that
pdf may be old-info.
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