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deejay_1956
Aug 25, 2011Aspirant
Which drives to buy?
Hi, I've just bought a readynas 4000 ultra ( NO PLUS) and I have difficulties to select which drives I should buy. I don't want to spend more then 100 -120$ per disk. When checking the HCL, I noti...
PapaBear1
Aug 25, 2011Apprentice
deejay - yes, Samsung calles them LP drives, but the industry calls any LP (low powered) drives "green" or "eco green" drives since they rotate a little slower, they use less power. For us, one of the benefits is that in many cases they are also slightly less expensive. Of course one has to recognize that even the original SATA 1.5Gb/s drives have the ability to fully saturate a home 1Gb/s network. So the 3Gb/s and now the 6Gb/s interfaces may be nice internally on a PC able to use the speed, but don't do a thing across the network.
The predecessor of the HD204UI, the HD203WI was also a low powered drive and had a good reputation.
The predecessor of the HD204UI, the HD203WI was also a low powered drive and had a good reputation.
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