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what's the deal with 5900 rpm?

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Borkil

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I was checking newegg today and I noticed that there are 5900 rpm drives now. Why the change from 5400? they all seemed to be seagate too.
 
i got a bunch of seagate 5900 about a year and a half ago and i've had 2 drop in the last 2 weeks. not the most reliable things....
 
I believe 5900rpm is just an arbitrary number they use to describe a variable rpm
ie: depending on platter density and other factors different size drives will spin at different rpm's around 5900
maybe 5400-6400
Of course i'm just speculating here
 
just the manufacture trying to have a "green" drive, but help it be faster than those "old" 5400rpm drives that people avoid (well, I did as soon as 7200rpm drives came out).
 
Borkil said:
I was checking newegg today and I noticed that there are 5900 rpm drives now.
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Welcome to three years ago.

Bigger numbers are "better" and 5900 is a bigger number than 5400. Arbitrary, but marketable.
 
I wouldn't touch these drives, because Seagate/Maxtor is the cheapest hard drive maker next to hitachi ,

Seagate was good when it was on its own, but when they hopped in bed with maxtor, now everything is made by maxtor and the new seagate drives and maxtor drives blow goat. They break down especially maxtor external hard drives.

If you want a green drive go with WDC green or Samsung green. thx
 
tweakboy said:
I wouldn't touch these drives, because Seagate/Maxtor is the cheapest hard drive maker next to hitachi ,

Seagate was good when it was on its own, but when they hopped in bed with maxtor, now everything is made by maxtor and the new seagate drives and maxtor drives blow goat. They break down especially maxtor external hard drives.

If you want a green drive go with WDC green or Samsung green. thx
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on the contrary, the barracuda green shows a lower return rate than the caviar green where i work, is faster than the WD caviar green, and does dramatically better in RAID configurations because they don't arbitrary stop spinning after a few seconds.

so instead, if you want a green drive, go with the seagate barracuda green. much better than the WD caviar green.
 
I've been very happy with my Barracudas in the recent past. I may be adding more disk space shortly (2 TB or more) and that is my first choice.
 
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