How did you determine the solid state drive spins at 7200 rpm?
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solid state drives do not spin unless it is a hybrid drive. I do not think this model contains a hybrid drive.
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This model has a SSD (Solid State Drive) which does not have any moving parts and hence does not spin. A SSD is MUCH Faster than a 7200 rpm drive
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Western Digital calls this "IntelliPower" (Doc #3665 & #3892), Essentially it means that it operates between 5400 rpm & 7200 rpm depending on the need of of the application that is using it. I called their 1-800 "Pre-sale" line and asked for the documentation. "WD Green Power drives comparisons vs. traditional 7,200 RPM drives Answer ID 3892 | Last Updated 03/04/2011 Overall, this product meets the performance requirements of most applications while delivering significantly less power consumption. If your application requires mostly sequential read/writes, then the drive will perform comparable to a 7,200 RPM drive. However, if your application performs mostly random mode operations, then the performance may drop by about 10% because of the latency time. If the Green Power product does not meet your performance needs then we have our Raid Edition line of 7,200 RPM Enterprise drives that will deliver the performance you need at the industry's best reliability."
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I do not recall. I do not think the rotational speed of the drive would explain such incredibly slow transfer rates I was getting about 10 MB per hour.
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The two that I have bought from Amazon are 7200 rpm drive for that Touro model listed
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You should email them. The Red drives that they put in these units are not 7200RPM.
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The HDD speed doesn't matter as this product will eventually corrupt the drive.(5400 rpm IIRC)
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If you open the case (which I had to fix the drive after it had jammed and would not be recognized), you can see that the internal drive is a Samsung ST1000LM024. I Googled this and found the following description on another site: SAMSUNG Spinpoint M8 ST1000LM024 1TB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 2.5" Internal Notebook Hard Drive Bare Drive
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The drive spins down according to your computers power settings (as all usbs will) but it never turns off.While spinning its not very noisy (you won't hear it in an office) but its not silent.I'm pretty sure its got wd green cavier as the drive.
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My guess (as it's so hard to find the rpm spec anywhere on the WD site) is that it's 5400rpm. That said, it's pretty zippy and I've had no problems (other than Pro Tools refusing to work with it due to the non-Oxford chipset) streaming audio and video from it.
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Just got the 128GB version. Running Crystal Disk Mark 64bit - Sequential Read: 100.7MB/s Write: 100.8MB/s 512K read 25.2MB/s write: 57.11MBs 4K random read: 0.263MB/S write 0.943MB/s 4K random QD32 read: 0.457MB/s write: 0.694MB/s - Hope this helps everyone to decide!
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Thanks for the update. Did you mean the WD 5400 rpm 1tb drive 8 cache.. Can't find it in 7200 rpm. Thanks
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If it had a 7200 rpm drive they would brag about it - so I'd bet it has a 5400 rpm.
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Dear Lance, I found a small memory (Kingston) built directly into the motherboard (like a micro SSD). The computer has only one hard drive at 7200 rpm. The operating system (Windows 8) is installed on small memory (micro SSD) and the new software I install, they were on the hard drive. Alvaro Acevedo
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The SSD means it is a solid state drive. The RPM refers to the speed of the drive. Both are correct. We got the extra warranty, Square trade through Amazon because this is not a cheap machine. The absolute best I have ever used - worth every penny. I have paid more in the past for IBM and it's not even close in the feel, functionality and performance.
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It has two drives. The first is a Solid State Drive with 384 G of memory, the second is a TB Serial ATA-600 that runs at 5400 rpm. Refer to the specifications for more information.
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Ok I look around and talk with some Sony technicians all they said was to get 5400 or 7200 rpm as long as it is SATA2/ SATA 3.0GB/s
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It's 5400RPM, so access times are "slower" than a 7200RPM drive. It has an 8meg cache vs. a 16m cache. I'd venture to say that neither of these are noticeable to the typical user. It's hot-pluggable SATA II, which are current capabilities. The 7200RPM/16m version is only about $5 more.