Is Snow Leopards Hard Drive RPM reporting dynamic?
I don’t have any variable speed hard drives in a Snow Leopard Mac (a 7200.11 HD is reported as 7200 rpm here), but wonder if any readers that do have seen OS X 10.6.x’s ASP report other than 5400rpm for instance with any model of “variable speed” hard drive. If you’re running any brand/model varible speed Hard Drive with Snow Leopard, let me know if you’ve ever seen SL ASP’s “Rotational Rate” number change during use. FYI: Some drives/systems don’t show “Rotational Rate” in ASP (OS X 10.6.1) – I see it on a 2009 Mac Pro w/1.5TB 7200.11 drive, but not on an early 2009 17in MacBook Pro w/OEM Fujitsu 320GB HD. And some readers with Mac Pros have reported some drive models also don’t show a rate. (BTW – Yesterday’s post from a WD RE4-GP RAID user had a link he sent to the WD Product page for the RE4 (non-GP) 7200rpm 2TB model – however his drives are the RE4-GP (aka IntelliPower/GreenPower) – which WD does not list as 7200rpm. Like previous IntelliPower/GreenPower drives, these typically a
