new hard drive

[chauncey]

Am going with a new, larger Western Digital hard drive. They have a 1 TB "black" and a 1.5 TB "green", almost same cost.
The green one has a variable RPM, >7200 RPM, while black one is constant 7200 RPM.
Is the fact that the green one is variable speed of concern to my use in CS4?
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[basroil]

As a secondary drive, I stand behind the green drives, have two internal green drives and other than a slightly annoying tenancy to go idle after 5 min or so unless you tweak some things, they are very fast and very green. Usually get 80mb/s out of my 1tb green, and my HTPC uses a 1.5tb green as the boot drive, and no issues there either. I won't recommend it for a boot drive or to store program files on it, but absolutely no issues with photoshop or LR2 reading from media stored there.

[firstclass]

WD Caviar Green drives actually park the head after something like 15 seconds of no access. I agree with the recommendation. They make excellent cheap/low power storage drives, just don't use them for anything executable or that will be seeing a lot of access.

[geralds34]

Green is suitable for internal backup(Syncback SE) drive, for a home network?

[chauncey]

Thanks guys, am going with a 1 TB black internal and a 1.5 TB external for backup.

[basroil]

Green is suitable for internal backup(Syncback SE) drive, for a home network?

Green drives are perfect for everything except an OS drive, unless you know what you are doing. They are just as fast as non-green, mid-high end hdds (so actually as good or better than caviar blue, not the same as a caviar black in WD's case).

Thanks guys, am going with a 1 TB black internal and a 1.5 TB external for backup.

If you get an external, get an eSATA one. If not, just fill up all the internal bays first.