Re:Multiple Western Digital 5400RPM drives are actually 7200...
by BunsanSpace on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @10:32AM
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These aren't home drives, where you have ample cooling in a PC case and power.
These are for NAS's/Servers where power and heat is a controlling factor, if admins wanted/could they would buy the 7200rpm drives and there would be a market for it, but they chose the 5400rpm because of constraints.
This is WD being lazy/cheap. Instead of selling them as 7200rpm drives, they're shovelling them into the 5400rpm lines as a presumably cost cutting measure.
They did not learn their lesson with the SMR/CMR scandal. Label your drives clearly.
These are for NAS's/Servers where power and heat is a controlling factor, if admins wanted/could they would buy the 7200rpm drives and there would be a market for it, but they chose the 5400rpm because of constraints.
This is WD being lazy/cheap. Instead of selling them as 7200rpm drives, they're shovelling them into the 5400rpm lines as a presumably cost cutting measure.
They did not learn their lesson with the SMR/CMR scandal. Label your drives clearly.