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> Ideally these people would be buying based on those actual metrics, rather than the RPM as a proxy for them, if that's what they really wanted, but I don’t kn
by AnssiH 6y ago
> Ideally these people would be buying based on those actual metrics, rather than the RPM as a proxy for them, if that's what they really wanted, but I don’t know if that’s on the data sheets.
Power use and acoustics are listed in WD datasheets, but I guess they might not be well comparable to values from other manufacturers.
- smnrchrds 6y ago> Power use and acoustics are listed in WD datasheets Given the fact that they lied about RPM on their datasheets, why should anyone believe other pieces of information on their datasheets are correct?
- AnssiH 6y agoThey seem to have lied elsewhere like in store pages (per other HN comments), but the datasheets specifically only mention "Performance Class" being "5400 RPM Class", which may be misleading but is not a lie IMO.
- murgindrag 6y agoWell, I'm looking for a 19dB-class hard drive. That class spans anything between 14dB and 60dB. That's the general noise class, you know.