Quote Originally Posted by Serra View Post
That sounds about right. "Green" drives are really good for bulk data only... eg. media, not your OS disk. As long as you use them that way they're fantastic... of course it's just about impossible to convey that to the general public.
I just bought a WD20EARS specifically for archiving purposes, I even copied my media files to the main OS drive so I don't have to access the green drive as much, except when pulling out archived data (installers, templates, etc). I hope you're right because I was worried when I saw this thread.