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Western Digital or Seagate
Dhruv:
--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on August 03, 2012, 06:10:22 AM ---You can always get an internal drive and an external enclosure. That way, you know what drive is going into your hardware. Internal drives are usually more consistent in terms of failures too, and so it's generally easier to judge the reliability of internal drives over external ones.
People always worry about external enclosures, but in all honesty, it's a two-minute job to assemble one. If you know how to use a screwdriver and to keep yourself free of static electricity, you're already 95% done.
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What is the remaining 5% about then?
Yeah i can do this much of assembling atleast. I guess i'll inquire about this option too. Western Digital AV-GP drive can be use used for this purpose.
--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on August 03, 2012, 06:10:22 AM ---Green is not unreliable. It is just not recommended for applications where performance is a requirement. If it's just for data storage that is always on but not accessed often, it will save electricity in the long run, because it's designed to spin down when idle for long periods of time.
Playing video or any kind of media is not the same as running a game. Generally, when you play back a media file, you read it from beginning to end. When running a game or some data-heavy application, you access data that is scattered over the disk, so you experience greater delays as you seek for the data. That's why 1080p playback can be smooth even if it's accessing data at a higher rate than a game that lags a lot.
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Does that mean if you have an internal drive that is Green and you play games on that PC it will fail?! ???
* Dhruv goes to check his new laptop.
megido-rev.M:
As far as Greens go they simply don't run that much power, which pretty much limits its performance pretty badly depending on the amount of activity required.
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: Dhruv on August 03, 2012, 06:53:57 AM ---What is the remaining 5% about then?
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The actual assembly process?
--- Quote from: Dhruv on August 03, 2012, 06:53:57 AM ---Does that mean if you have an internal drive that is Green and you play games on that PC it will fail?! ???
* Dhruv goes to check his new laptop.
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I don't get how you got that out of what I said. My first line was "Green is not unreliable." A Green drive is simply not designed for high-performance tasks. Imagine using a Smart Fourtwo in a professional car race - it won't break down, but it is not the ideal choice for the job.
Dhruv:
--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on August 04, 2012, 07:06:30 AM ---I don't get how you got that out of what I said. My first line was "Green is not unreliable." A Green drive is simply not designed for high-performance tasks. Imagine using a Smart Fourtwo in a professional car race - it won't break down, but it is not the ideal choice for the job.
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Well the car will break down if you keep using it again and again for this race.
But yeah i agree not anytime soon though. How are AV-GP drives though? I migh use it for assembling...
kitamesume:
<---- using a 1TB WD blue for torrent drive, hasn't broken down so far.
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