Hard drives from pvr's?

[gilly1984]

Just want to know a bit about these.

I have one 500gb western digital green "WD5000AADS-56S9B1" running windows and a "ST3500312CS Seagate Pipeline HD 500GB" for back up stuff.

These was taken from a sky HD box and a Virgin hd box.

Are these just normal hard drives?

They cost me a total of £15 for both. And i pick up another Sky HD box tomorrow with the WD Caviar green 500gb inside for £1.20.

Is it fine to run windows on them or are they slower and meant for video recording only?

[mariushm]

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edit: Wrote in the wrong tab, sorry.

Oh hell, as long as I posted... might as well say something on topic.

They should be normal drives. Normally I don't bother even looking for something like this, mainly because most boxes around here should be password protected, so that data won't be accessible and I'm not sure how hard it is for drives to be unlocked.

[Phaihn]

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there just normal hard drive just the greens are lower performance then a regular blue or black drive they are 5400 rpm i think just not really good for an os but they will work fine.

[gilly1984]

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Everything I search is 7200rpm?

The wd has 32mb cach and the seagate has 8mb cache.

I used a 160gb hdd out of an old sky+ box a couple of years ago to install windows onto, the pc was slow as hell? Thats what made me write this thread.

My Pc at the moment is a little slow, I could sworn it was faster than this at one point. I have re-installed windows but it just doesnt seem as fast as it used to be?

Can a crappy psu cause it? Because my last psu went pop. Also I replaced a cap on my mobo with one that has higher uf.

[t.j.]

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there just normal hard drive just the greens are lower performance then a regular blue or black drive they are 5400 rpm i think just not really good for an os but they will work fine.

that model green is 7200rpm.. an the seagate is 5900rpm.so green be fine for os!

lol, watchen tv an posten!!!

[gilly1984]

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Here are both on hd tune.

So the WD should not make my computer slow down?

[gerg]

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It can but I don't think it would be much the green drives "park" themselves

http://www.instantfundas.com/2011/12...tal-green.html

Like the article says dont' bother running them in linux or in a raid I made the mistake in both cases

[gilly1984]

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It can but I don't think it would be much the green drives "park" themselves

http://www.instantfundas.com/2011/12...tal-green.html

Like the article says dont' bother running them in linux or in a raid I made the mistake in both cases

Thanks for the link.

Possible to turn the park feature off?

Picked up My sky HD box, Opened it up expecting a 500gb caviar green like the last one but it was only 300gb Caviar SE

Still not bad for £1.20

[gerg]

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no you can't turn the feature off I wish I could I wouldn't have a stack of 500gb green drives sitting here at my office.

[brethin]

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Drives from PVR's are fine for use in systems.

[gerg]

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Yes they are just don't bother running them on linux or in a raid.

[brethin]

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Yes they are just don't bother running them on linux or in a raid.

They will be fine for Linux or Raids. These drives if anything are normally equal to or better than retails drives because of the use they are expedicted to receive. Normally the drives in a PVR are much better quaility than say a drive from a external USB enclosier for example.