Properly advertise the application of Green drives

[PC_Cobbler]

Looking through Amazon and Newegg’s comments on Green drives, it becomes obvious that many people do not understand their purpose. Somehow they adopt the idea of a free lunch, i.e. lower power with the same great performance as 7200 rpm drives. Of course this is nonsense because a 5400 rpm drive makes for a slow system drive. My suggestion is not technical, it is marketing. Change your online brochures to state something along the lines of: “Green drives are not recommended for use as system drives in desktops due to their slower access times. They make excellent back-up and data drives, however, and will not contribute to a heat problem even in non-vented external enclosures or laptops.”