Western Digital Green Drives-2 speed problem?

[boleyd]

I understand that thr WD green drives run at two speeds to reduce power consumption. However, when a drive changes speeds does this cause a visual interruption. Would be 750gb 7200rpm 32mb cache

XP/sp3 2gb memory 2.5ghz dualcore

 

[donallabaugh]

I understand that thr WD green drives run at two speeds to reduce power consumption. However, when a drive changes speeds does this cause a visual interruption. Would be 750gb 7200rpm 32mb cache

XP/sp3 2gb memory 2.5ghz dualcore

I think if you look into it these dual speed drives will not change speed on the fly. IE not while reading or writing.
I believe the drives will go to the slower speed when the system is not accessing the drives. Like when you are not saving or loading files for an extended period.
I am not sure if you will notice a slight delay when the drives come up from the slow speed to normal speed during the first access. I have a WD external USB drive that uses a dual power drive. I do notice a little delay when I first access the drive after it has been idle, but it is not normally an issue.

Don

 

[SeanW]

Ouch!

I made the mistake of buying a 750GB Western Digital Green Power Caviar, possibly the same model as the OPs and it introduced significant latency issues into everything I used, with games obviously being the worst.
:n:

OP, I feel your pain. BTW it sounds like your computer is close to mine spec-wise.

What I ended up doing was putting back a older, normal WD for use with gaming and other software, until I could get another SLC based Solid State Disk, which I'm now using for Trainz and I've relegated the 750GB WD green to holding my music and videos.

Thank goodness I didn't try to install Windows on it!