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eeehhhaaabbb   05-07-2009 at 11:33:24 AM

I bough a new WD500G(WD5000AACS) Green hard drive my PC overall performance dropped down since i install & use that drive...
i used Hard disk speed tool i test the new drive and my 2 years old WD320G the surprise me old drive is much faster than the new ones!!
What is the problem?
What to do to solve it?

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RomDA_73   05-07-2009 at 01:10:59 PM

Well, can you post specific benchmarks of both drives? AFAIK the green drives sacrifice speed a bit to conserve power (for the environment, hence the "green" label)

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