Thanks, are all the Hitachi drives not green. What about the Seagate Barracuda or Western Digital AV-GP (although the GP sounds suspicious).
Is there a list of non green drives anywhere. In terms of the spin speed thing it seems all the ones slower than 72000 are green so are doubly bad although with RAID 10 5500 still should be more than capable of a couple of HD streams.
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