Discovered something worrying some months ago:
http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums...10EACS#p368171
It seems there really are 7200RPM Western Digital "Green" drives.
Despite making a big deal about "green" drives being unnecessary, Seagate apparently launched a new 5900RPM drive late last year (though they never hyped it as being green). There are two models, ST4000DM000 and ST3000DM003, with 4 x 1TB and 4 x 750GB platters respectively.
Someone actually attempted to figure out what it would take to make a variable-RPM drive.
http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums...10EACS#p368171
It seems there really are 7200RPM Western Digital "Green" drives.
Despite making a big deal about "green" drives being unnecessary, Seagate apparently launched a new 5900RPM drive late last year (though they never hyped it as being green). There are two models, ST4000DM000 and ST3000DM003, with 4 x 1TB and 4 x 750GB platters respectively.
Someone actually attempted to figure out what it would take to make a variable-RPM drive.