HappyScrappyHeroPup said:These drives are frequently available for about $110.

Sorry, red.

When and where? This is a great deal, thanks OP.

HappyScrappyHeroPup said:These drives are frequently available for about $110.

Sorry, red.

Yeah RED FOR YOU!

I'd pay you 120 to get me that HD.

Anyone got coupons or anything to sweeten the deal even more?

DCAC said:HappyScrappyHeroPup said:These drives are frequently available for about $110.

Sorry, red.

When and where? This is a great deal, thanks OP.

He is lying. These were NO WHERE near $110.
He might as well just say the drives are free if you steal it...

Does anyone know if the 10% coupon floating on eBay works for this item?

It says only flash and external hard drives in the qualified categories, but it does not say its not valid.

PharmerNate said:I am not too familiar w/ Green Power Drives, though by reading the forums I have gleaned that the main positives are that they run cooler, quiter, and with less power usage, and the main negative is that they are slower than typical drives, especially since they can "idle". Is that about correct? Thanks.

Thing about this drive it's good for storage drive. AKA, your files, your photos, your music, your video, your blah blah and blah. These files are not accessed as frequently as the programs such as Windows and Office. Thus, it is not necessary to make it fast but instead it's big and saves energy.

HappyScrappyHeroPup said:These drives are frequently available for about $110.

Sorry, red.

Find them for $110 and make $10/ea by selling them to me for $120. I'll commit to buying 5 from you immediately.

Willy said:How about for a DVR: Directv HRxx series which can use an external eSATA drive? Thanks.

I wouldn't use it for that. I currently use a WD7500AAKS in quiet seek mode on my DirecTV HR20 and it messes up at times, seemingly due to the access times (it didn't happen in fast seek mode). Note the 7500AAKS is a lot faster than this drive. A 5400rpm drive like this will have an even longer access time and thus is likely to show even more problems.

If anyone cares, here's how to see the problem I see:
Put a WD7500AAKS in an external eSATA case. Set to quiet seeks with Hitachi drive tool.
Connect it to a DirecTV HR20/HR21 PVR.
Begin recording an MPEG-4 HD show and an MPEG-2 HD show (OTA locals or an HD channel in the 80s/90s channel range).
Watch the MPEG-2 show as it records. Pause it and rewind at some point. Now return to the point in the MPEG-2 show that was being recorded when you rewound. Note it has created a glitch in the recording.

This is a good drive for many uses. Use in an HD PVR is not one of them.

Sorry about the $110 comment, I guess I was thinking of 750GB drives.

5400 rpm

16MB RAM

According to the Tom's Hardware review, this drive uses around 4w less at idle than a comparable, "non-green" Hitachi drive. So using it 24 hours/day, 7 days/week, 52 weeks/year saves 4*24*7*52/1000 or about 35 kwhrs. At $.20/kwhr, that's less than $7, hardly worth the compromise in performance IMO, nor is it likely to render the earth significantly greener than retiring just one Hummer.