Quote Originally Posted by Bo_Fox View Post
Anyway, I hate that Evergreen nickname. Just like with WD's slow-and-Green hard drives, the power savings just aint worth it! Hard drives consume only 10W at most, so why would I want to save 2-3 watts and sacrifice maybe 1 hour on slowly transferring 500GB worth of backup data? I think a lot more electricity would have been wasted on the SLOWWWWW transfer of 5800rpm or so (which WD does not want to disclose, trying to claim that it is truly variable "somewhere" between 5400 and 7200rpm), on the hard drive being in load (not idle) state for so long, and having to keep the rig powered on (wasting more electricity) during the "Green" transfers, and having to waste more of your "Green" time not burning much calories sitting in front of a file-transfer window.
Last time i checked the WD green had ~70mb/s avarage transfare rate (at least mine has :p), a Cuda 1TB 7200.12 has 80mb/s avarage... i dont call that a massive difference.
If you transfer 500GB is would be 13min more on the Green, but only if your backup disk is capale of that transfere rate.

And since most powple use external USB2 .0 disks for backup purposes they are limited to 40Mb/s anyway.