[ltp] Recommendation for new disk drive

[Michael Gaber]

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Am 17.07.2009 16:24, schrieb Joerg Bruehe:
> Michael,
>
>
> thanks for your reply:
>
> Michael Gaber wrote:
>> Am 17.07.2009 15:11, schrieb Joerg Bruehe:
>>> Dear readers,
>>>
>>>
>>> I need to get a bigger disk for my R51 (parallel connection).
>>>
>>> [[...]]
>>>
>>> ThinkWiki recommends "Seagate Momentus" which my preferred local deal=
er
>>> doesn't carry; he stocks Samsung and Western Digital, recommends the
>>> latter.
>>> [[...]]
>> Hi.
>>
>> my experience says: go for a hitachi 7200 rpm drive
>
> 1) Doesn't 7200 rpm mean a higher power consumption?
>     It is rare that I need a long battery time, but I felt that less
> power usage is always good (less heat, ...).
>
> Hitachi lists 1.8 (0.8) W for the 5400 rpm disk in RW (idle) mode
> versus 2.0 (1.8) W for the 7200 rpm disks ("enhanced availability" or
> "standard").
> Samsung gives 2.0 (0.6) W, Western Digital 2.5 (0.85) W, and Seagate 2.=
0
> (0.8) W for their 5400 rpm drives,
> so it seems quite consistent that the 5400 rpm drives consume less powe=
r
> most of the time (idle) than the 7200 rpm ones.
>
> Of course, 7200 rpm has lower latency (4.2 ms) than 5400 rpm (5.5 ms),
> I still need to make up my mind how important that is for me.
>
>
> 2) Do you recommend it because you have good experiences with Hitachi,
>     or do you also have less good ones with other manufacturers?

well, i had a samsung replaced 3!!! times because of reallocated sectors =

in the warranty period and a 2 seagates dieing propably because of=20
start/stop count which didn't happen with the hitachi in my old R50p or=20
the one in my new T60
>
>
> Thanks,
> J=F6rg
>



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