Re: [LAU] Which SATA drive? Size? [Was: Re: partition table]

1) The Green drives do typically run at lower RPM. It's part of the power saving strategy. I don't typically thing drive RPM has a huge impact on audio work but clearly others could have a differing opinion on that. It would make for an interesting conversation I think. 2) The biggest part of power saving on the WD Green drives is that they park the heads _very_ often. While this hasn't been a big problem under Windows for me under Linux it's a bit of an unknown at this point. I have one system that uses one of the 1TB drives as the main system drive. The head gets parked and then Linux wakes it up every 2 minutes or so. The issue is these drives are only spec'ed at 300,000 head parks over their lifetime and then they are out of spec. 30 parks per minute * 24 hours * 365 days = 262,800 head parks. Basically, if the drive is left in a Linux system that's powered up all the time then the drive is out of spec in a little over a year. Does this matter? I don't know. I have one machine that is a year old and it's approaching end-of-life?