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When the drive is turned on, there's very clearly a spike at exactly Hz See the "Peak" box in the screenshot. This corresponds to 7, RPM. The Hz tone is clearly audible in the recording, and you can hear it increase in pitch as the drive powers up. There's no question in my mind that this tone is produced by the disk rotation.

Hopefully this can resolve the question for you. The results so far indicate that some drives spin faster than what they are rated. As long as they spin faster and not slower, I think the manufactures are not on the hook for anything. Sell a drive rated for and it spins at , that is a bonus because it is faster.

When they sell one rated at and it spins at , then there is a problem. It may be that some people would prefer a genuine RPM drive with the expectation of lower power consumption, less noise, and higher reliability.

In any case there's no excuse for deceptive specifications. With all the various and changing models of drives available today, IS there even any need to be deceptive with specifications in the first place? This corresponds to the rotational latency of a RPM drive.

An audio spectrum analysis proves that it does in fact spin at RPM. Switch to mobile style. Page 1 of 1. For all I know they could spin at rpm to keep the energy use down?

Quote Post by schumaku » Tue Dec 17, am Sorry, how does this matter? But other than marketing borrocks I am still trying to find any real difference in the products from a desktop drive - certainly WD have not come up with anything credible. I was just sharing my experience and research - nothing more.

Personally I run drives for lower operation cost, and don't care about performance. Quote Post by storageman » Tue Dec 17, pm I must admit I don't like marketing borrocks like this either. We like to know the speed. These drives will be fine for copy speed but less so at random IO than rpms. Reliability seems good in my experience. Contact Moogle Stiltzkin. Quote Post by Moogle Stiltzkin » Tue Dec 17, pm i have bought desktop and raid editions of western digital drives Contact fantomas. First Name.

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