First post, by Zup
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My wife's HDD is throwing SMART alerts and have some unrecoverable sectors, so it's time to get a new HDD. I've developed some kind of anti-Seagate feeling, so I was going to buy a Western Digital HDD (the only other widely available HDDs in my country).
The thing is that I looked to some blue caviar labels, and they some of them say that they are 7200 rpm class and others 5400 rpm class. I've got an old green caviar that ended being 5400 rpm and the performance was very irregular (sometimes it looked a lot faster than other, but in the end the average performance was not impressive to say the least).
So, the disks say they are 7200 rpm class... the key is rpm class. WD doesn't say that they run at 7200 rpm, but that they are 7200 rpm class... what do they mean? Are those drives real 7200 rpm drives or they run at least rpm but get some kind of boost (big caches, those things)? Can I get a 7200 rpm class and get consistent performance or should I go get black caviar disks?
I have traveled across the universe and through the years to find Her.
Sometimes going all the way is just a start...