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I would have liked to see you do the dB tests and heat generation as well. I've seen that the WD 1TB green is superior in those catagories as well in other reviews, but this is the first one I've seen that compares JUST 1TB drives. I expected the WD drive to do rather poorly based on it's slower rotational speed, seeing that it competes in some of the tests as well as the fact it doesn't fall flat on it's face for the rest of tests prove that WD knew what they were doing when they made this drive.
I bought 3 of the 1TB WD drives based on the power consumption, heat production and noise generation numbers I read about for my HTPC server. I do notice a little sluggishness when copying files around but 90% of the time these drives sit around doing absolutely jack squat. If I really needed the speed I'd just get a 300GB raptor and be done with it, but it's a totally different usage scenario, not to mention price bracket. I'm in no real hurry here, and these drives are just for storage, not OS related.
Good show though, keep it up!
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