Western Digital's new family of cool-running HDs

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It's a bit hard to evaluate that claim without any spec reflecting it.
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There are some specs on WDs homepage. They claim < 10W doing R/W.
Normal is around 15W, so there seems to be some improvement. However
the specs seem to be non-final, since the idle-power consumption is
higher (or was when I looked) than the power consumption during R/W
access.

Arno
 
It's a bit hard to evaluate that claim without any spec reflecting it.
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Just like I can claim to invent a new design of car engine that can go
for oh about 1,000 miles per gallon and still can pull 60 foot trailer
even uphill. Or a computer that can operate at 1 THz (that's 1,000
GHz) without a need for a fan or cooling system.

Specs means nothing without an actual product to test with.
 
Impmon said:
Just like I can claim to invent a new design of car engine that can go
for oh about 1,000 miles per gallon and still can pull 60 foot trailer
even uphill. Or a computer that can operate at 1 THz (that's 1,000
GHz) without a need for a fan or cooling system.

Specs means nothing without an actual product to test with.
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Reputable companies stand behind their specs. To do otherwise could
result in a claim of false advertising, and some mighty bad press.

But disk manufacturers (particularly WD and Maxtor) seem to be shying
away from publishing specs (at least on their Web sites); I think
there's a story there. I searched the WD site for any quantification
of their "low power" claim for that new drive and found nothing. I also
recently searched Maxtor's site for sustained transfer rates on the
Diamondmax Plus 9 series and, again, found nothing.

So I'm suspicious.
 
Reputable companies stand behind their specs. To do otherwise could
result in a claim of false advertising, and some mighty bad press.
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But disk manufacturers (particularly WD and Maxtor) seem to be shying
away from publishing specs (at least on their Web sites);
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Oh? So far I found full technical manuals (with pretty complete
specs) on all Maxtor drives I have.
I think
there's a story there. I searched the WD site for any quantification
of their "low power" claim for that new drive and found nothing. I also
recently searched Maxtor's site for sustained transfer rates on the
Diamondmax Plus 9 series and, again, found nothing.
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Have you looked into the drive family manual? It is here:
http://www.maxtor.com/_files/maxtor/en_us/documentation/manuals/diamondmax_plus_9_manual.pdf
So I'm suspicious.
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Until I see the full spec and some independent reviews, I reserve
judgement. I think suspicion is premature.

Arno
 
Arno said:
Oh? So far I found full technical manuals (with pretty complete
specs) on all Maxtor drives I have.




Have you looked into the drive family manual? It is here:
http://www.maxtor.com/_files/maxtor/en_us/documentation/manuals/diamondmax_plus_9_manual.pdf
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That does indeed seem to have the salient information.

I wonder why it didn't show up in any of the searches I did at their site.
Until I see the full spec and some independent reviews, I reserve
judgement. I think suspicion is premature.
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Fair enough.
 
CJT said:
Reputable companies stand behind their specs. To do otherwise could
result in a claim of false advertising, and some mighty bad press.
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But disk manufacturers (particularly WD and Maxtor) seem to be shying away
from publishing specs (at least on their Web sites); I think there's a story
there.
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The only 'story' is that WD havent bothered with full manuals for years now.
I searched the WD site for any quantification of their "low power" claim for
that new drive and found nothing.
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http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=59
the electrical tab
I also recently searched Maxtor's site for sustained transfer rates on the
Diamondmax Plus 9 series and, again, found nothing.
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Full manuals online, the web site is just a bit strangely organised.
So I'm suspicious.
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Paranoia.
 
Those numbers don't look very low to me.
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Me neither. But then I havent been saving that data, so
its quite possible that that data is currently the data before
the most recent change announced in the news item.

I really just meant that they dont hide the data, its just
not completely obvious where it is on their web site.
 
Me neither. But then I havent been saving that data, so
its quite possible that that data is currently the data before
the most recent change announced in the news item.

I really just meant that they dont hide the data, its just
not completely obvious where it is on their web site.
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Hi Rod, nice to see you posting in this group once again. Where did
you go to?

Mark
 
Hi Rod, nice to see you posting in this
group once again. Where did you go to?
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Didnt really go anywhere except other newsgroups.
Or more strictly reduced the groups I read for a while.

Mainly because some like this one got a bit repetitive,
so many asking the same stuff about their external drive
getting very hot, or how to completely erase a drive etc.
One less than obvious downside of a very narrowly
focussed technical group. Decided to only zoom thru and
read only the ones that looked interesting or ones that werent
getting many useful answers instead of not reading at all.
 
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