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bustapr   08-27-2009 at 09:00:35 PM

Hi, I wanted to know what you could recommend for me, because I was searching for a new hard drive and I stumbled upon these two choices. The caviar green is the same low price as black and uses much less power than black, but I believe that black has more raw power. What can you tell me, I cant look at newegg because they dont do service for puerto rico, so I'm going with tiger.

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tosh9i   08-27-2009 at 09:10:33 PM
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if you want storage space, get the green one, which will probably last longer.

if you plan on putting your OS system on it, then get the black one, which is faster.

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tosh9i   08-27-2009 at 09:11:48 PM
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don't forget to look at this thread:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] cks-greens

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leo2kp   08-27-2009 at 09:13:45 PM
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I believe black drives have a 5-year warranty, and the green ones have a 3-year warranties. So the black is faster and will last longer, but will use more energy.

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Bronze Storage badge sminlal   08-27-2009 at 10:38:22 PM
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Yep, it's basically power vs. performance. Buy a black if you want something fast, buy a green if you want to minimize power and/or heat dissipation.

I've standardized on the green drives for fanless external USB enclosures because they run so much cooler than conventional drives.

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hok   08-28-2009 at 05:46:38 PM
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also the greens are pretty quiet... blacks are not loud... but i can "hear" them greens are barely audible..

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