24 Dec
2010
24 Dec
'10
7:03 p.m.
2010/12/24 Jörn Nettingsmeier <nettings(a)folkwang-hochschule.de>de>:
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Is it? In what way? Something like hdparm -tT or something else?
Reaching its lifetime would be a good thing.
I think that really depends on how long it's left asleep. At this 2
minute rate I'm seeing I suspect it lowers power to put it to sleep
but I don't know.
No debate there. Completely agree.
Yeah, I've
heard of that, and I suspect it works. I've not used it
myself. I felt it reasonable to let folks know what they were buying
and what the issues might be. Who knows what the issues might be with
that feature turned off?
the drive is a lot faster and will reach its expected lifetime, hopefully.
Certainly
power consumption will go up.
no. under linux, power consumption will actually go down, since the
constant head parking and unparking is avoided. if you implement laptop
mode with very large dirty buffers, you might actually reach a point
where there's actual benefit to this "green" feature, but i have a very
strong suspicion it's just a stupid greenwashing feature they came up
with (without expecting much themselves), because marketing wanted it.
Maybe
most folks don't leave their DAWs powered up 24/7, I don't know.
true. the problem hit me on a server. but i'm pretty sure that on a DAW,
you don't want your disk heads to go for a nap every 15 seconds either,
especially since they do it with a loud "clack" for extra emphasis...
the caviar green is definitely a very stupid product,
probably even
under windows. as faberman said, if you are concerned about power
consumption and noise, invest in 2.5" drives.
happy holidays,
jörn
(who is stuck on a train in the snow and bored enough to read mail on
christmas eve...)
You too!
- Mark