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Low power Hard Drive options?

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mikeford

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I have a Micron Clientpro, a cheap older "thin" client low power type system with a Intel 810 MB and currently a Celeron 663, 256 MB ram, and 10 GB WD hard drive. Right now its a very light duty irc chat bot server for a game I play, but it runs 24/7, so I am thinking of tossing on all the handy to have running 24/7 stuff around the house, and looking to reduce the power consumption as long as its not too expensive or slow.

It does support a lot of low power modes, but I haven't explored that too much, lots of trouble in the past has me spooked, and I am not sure of all that XP pro supports. Suggestions on the processor in the cpu forum were for a P3 or Via C3, and I am wondering if anybody has some suggestions on Low power Hard Drives vs the WDC WD100BB (old 10 GB HD).
 
Yea the lowest power option would probably be a "Low RPM" laptop hard drive, with one of those adapters..
You should be able to get an older smaller one for cheap, and adapters aren't bad either:
http://www.axshop.com/details.aspx/sku-1217/ = $2.74 shipped for adapter
(I havent bought from axshop, have heard mixed results, so use your own opinion)
 
Samsung have a special series for that, V120CE. These are the quietest and lowest power 3.5" IDE drives, 200 and 250 GBytes.

You can get somewhat lower with 2.5" notebook drives.
 
The lowest power drain you can practically obtain is with a CF card and adapter. That isn't something you'll want to try with a standard XP install, though(quite a cute trick with a stripped down Linux setup, however). And older notebook drive would probably make more sense.
 
Burned once 5 years ago, I haven't forgiven them. At a couple scrap places I visit, I have seen pallet bins full of drives with Samsung making up maybe half. OTOH plenty of seagates too.

A spare 20 GB from my wifes old archos mp3 player is a likely candidate.
 
Scrap bins are just a mirror of market share. Back in the days, when Seagate owned 95% of the HDD market, 95% of all broken HDDs happened to be Seagate. Quelle surprise ... still, public opinion in these days used to be "Seagate is ******".

With the Samsung drives being the undisputed leaders in quiet, low power AND at the same time cheap, they have a lot of market share in the low to midrange arena - and that's where the big numbers ship.
 
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