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Tom's Hardware > All Reviews > Storage > Internal Storage > Energy-Saving Hard Drives

Application Performance

05:10 - Tuesday 3 June 2008 by Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos

energy efficient hdd

energy efficient hdd

The WD GreenPower drives provide only 80% of the application performance other 7,200 RPM desktop drives show; the reduced spindle speed is obviously a disadvantage here. However, the P7K500 cannot deliver better file writing performance in PCMark05’s HDD benchmark.

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Anonymous 03/06/2008 21:55

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Ah finally, the infamous 2 page bug has been fixed. Bout time too !

polarity 04/06/2008 12:07

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Until other manufacturers can give me a 5 year warranty I'm not buying anything but Seagate drives, regardless of performance/power consumption.

That 5400GB drive looks interesting though

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