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.
Quoted for truth. I'm using my green drives for a flexraid array for archives and the files are split so that the usage pattern spins only one drive per cluster of activities.

Quote Originally Posted by dng View Post
i have this drive and it has the same symptom as described. it's annoying as it would affect my gaming. time for me to move files to another drive, yikes.
I'm afraid you didn't purchase the proper drive for your application. The green drives are not meant to be system drives.

Quote Originally Posted by freeloader View Post
That's why I never buy any of that power saving garbage. I'd rather use full speed, "all the time" drives. I don't care about the few watts per drive I'll save.
This guy probably doesn't have 25 drives idling 90% of the time