On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:27:40 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:28:45 -0500, SomeBloke wrote:
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>> Green computing is not on the MS agenda. No surprise there.
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> Speaking of green computing, I went to buy an hdisk the other day and
> saw these Western Digital "Green Drives"...
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> Anyone know what this is?
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> I suspect, but don't know for sure, that this would be terrible for
> digital audio or video much like power saving schemes are.
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> Anyone know what these things are?
They spin at a lower speed and have a lower power consumption.
Performance as you would expect suffers as a result of the spin speed.
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