WD GP drives now 7200 RPM?

floepie · Post by **floepie** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 6:08 am

Here's a link to Buy.com's WD GP 500GB drive that they claim is pure 7200 RPM (no variable speed mentioned). Could they now be shipping a newer version of the venerable GP series?

http://www.buy.com/prod/western-digital ... 38351.html

pleccy2000 · Post by **pleccy2000** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:16 am

It's just a Bad description

AuraAllan · Post by **AuraAllan** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:20 am

Yes, im sure its just incorrect desciption.

All GP drives for sale in Denmark are listed as 7200RPM drives. They are ofcourse "only" 5400RPM drives.

floepie · Post by **floepie** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:26 am

Hmmm, well, WD's wording regarding the specs I suppose does allow for an unannounced switch to another "invariable" rotation speed. I was hoping that perhaps Buy got their hands on a later WD shipment.

andyb · Post by **andyb** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 8:57 am

Here's a link to Buy.com's WD GP 500GB drive that they claim is pure 7200 RPM (no variable speed mentioned).

Not a single one of WD's drives have variable speeds (unless you count off as a speed), have a look through the forums, and you will find some heated discussions on the matter (many by myself) about the actual RPM of WD's GP drives.

The outcome should you not want to read the entire thread is that all of WD's GP line so far released are a fixed speed of 5400-rpm, and unless you see a review of a WD GP drive that states otherwise dont believe what you read by the sellers (or WD).

Andy

floepie · Post by **floepie** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 9:03 am

That I'm well aware of. However, I've never seen a site which carries a GP drive that claims it is a 7200 RPM with no mention of, however incorrect it may be, variable speed. WD may have slipped in a new batch with the higher invariable rotational speed, but it's more than likely that is not the case, as others have posted seeing this on other vendors' sites as well.

plympton · Post by **plympton** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 9:04 am

Funny, the 1 TB and 750 GB drives are all 25/27/25 dB for noise, while the 500 GB is 25/29/25 dB for noise.

Power wise, it looks like it's a 5400 RPM drive.

-Dan

Raxxath · Post by **Raxxath** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 1:20 pm

plympton wrote:Funny, the 1 TB and 750 GB drives are all 25/27/25 dB for noise, while the 500 GB is 25/29/25 dB for noise.

Power wise, it looks like it's a 5400 RPM drive.

-Dan

That's because the 500gb doesn't have the "StableTrac" technology the other two have.