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Re:Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM” by AnssiH on Monday September 07, 2020 @07:36PM (#24403823)
> Ideally these people would be buying based on those actual metrics, rather than the RPM as a proxy for them, if that's what they really wanted, but I don’t know if that’s on the data sheets.

Power use and acoustics are listed in WD datasheets, but I guess they might not be well comparable to values from other manufacturers.

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Re:Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM” by smnrchrds on Monday September 07, 2020 @07:45PM (#24403865)
> Power use and acoustics are listed in WD datasheets

Given the fact that they lied about RPM on their datasheets, why should anyone believe other pieces of information on their datasheets are correct?

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Re:Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM” by AnssiH on Monday September 07, 2020 @09:44PM (#24404505)
They seem to have lied elsewhere like in store pages (per other HN comments), but the datasheets specifically only mention "Performance Class" being "5400 RPM Class", which may be misleading but is not a lie IMO.
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Re:Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM” by murgindrag on Monday September 07, 2020 @07:49PM (#24403897)
Well, I'm looking for a 19dB-class hard drive. That class spans anything between 14dB and 60dB. That's the general noise class, you know.
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