<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Are you sure? The EADS packages continues to lack the gigantic warning<br>
paragraph mentioning the WD Align tool and Advanced Format. I think only<br>
the EARS drives have that paragraph on their label.<br>
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It seems to me EADS continues to use 512 byte sectors. Why would they not<br>
put a warning about "advanced format drives"? Even the AV-GP drive is<br>
missing it. I'm assuming lack of paragraph means no 4k sectors.<br>
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</blockquote><div><br>Yup, it is the EARS drives that use the Advanced Format with 4k sectors, I was just reading several reviews on them after seeing the 1TB EARS on Amazon.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
As for the original question, I'll be getting a WD Green drive for my next<br>
drive. My seagates (1.5 TB and 500 GB) have been firmware issue free, but<br>
they are so blazing hot at 7200 rpm that one of them registered a SMART high<br>
of 61 C. That's the very top of the spec, but still much hotter than I'd<br>
like.<br>
<br>
If you have sufficient cooling, your options are wide open (WD Black,<br>
Seagate 7200.12, etc) but if you're packing your backend drives into a<br>
mini-tower case, it's probably best to get a cooler drive in the WD Green.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div><br>Indeed this will be for my Antec 900 desktop/FE, all drives on it currently run very quiet and cool (quick hddtemp just now shows hottest one at 30C). I do think I will go for the 1.5TB Green drive, I can't justify paying $99 for the 1TB when another 500GB is only $15 more...<br>
<br>Thanks<br>Bob<br></div></div>