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Re:Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM” by dawnerd on Monday September 07, 2020 @07:18PM (#24403741)
Couldn’t they just software limit the speed? I’m sure they thought of it but it seems on the surface like an easy problem to solve for.
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Re:Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM” by gruez on Monday September 07, 2020 @09:52PM (#24404550)
https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ikk0rv/psa_mul...

>You cannot just run a drive at a different RPM (except for idling, different RPM while reading/writing requires different read head calibrations and glide height, etc.).

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Re:Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM” by wmf on Monday September 07, 2020 @09:41PM (#24404482)
Drives don't support this; they're designed to operate at a single fixed RPM.
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