- WD Caviar Green hard drives reduce power consumption by up to 40%
- A fine-tuned balance of spin speed, transfer rate and caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings
- IntelliSeek – Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise, and vibration.
- 2TB capacity holds up to 400,000 digital photos, 500,000 MP3 files, and 240 hours of HD video.
- 3 year limited warranty.
Product DescriptionWD Advanced Format technology increases media format efficiency, thus enabling larger drive capacities. WD Advanced Format drives are specifically optimized for Mac and the latest Windows operating systems such as Windows Vista and Windows 7. WD Advanced Format drives work with legacy operating systems such as Windows XP but require the use of the free WD Align software available on www. wdc. com/advformat. Available in capacities up to 2 TB, WD Caviar® Green™ SATA hard drives reduce power consumption by up to 40% and offer best-in-class acoustics and operating temperature. Based on WD’s exclusive GreenPower™ technology, these drives are designed to deliver power savings as the primary attribute. As hard drive capacities increase, the power required to run those drives increases as well. WD Caviar Green drives make it possible for energy-conscious customers to build systems with higher capacities and the right balance of system performance, ensured reliability, and energy conservation. They are ideal for PCs, external storage and other devices that require lower power consumption and cool, quiet operation.
Western Digital 2 TB Caviar Green SATA Intellipower 64 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive WD20EARS
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I do not like this product at all. Its slow with a very small cache. It took for every to setup in my computer. The only thing I like about it is the amount of space on the drive. I would not recommend this drive for any novice computer users.
Rating: 1 / 5
This may be a great drive but it will not work properly in a Directv HR2X HD-DVR. It will cause all kinds of Freezing issues. I had no problems installing this unit in to an Antec MX1 enclosure and no problems connecting it to the DVR. It recognized it, formatted it and seemed to work ok. After the DVR was up and running every minute or two I had issues with the dvr locking up for 20-40 seconds constantly.
Unfortunately, I found out the EADS series works much better. So I have returned this unit and purchased the WD20EADS drive.
You can read more at dbs talk.
Rating: 1 / 5
I already had a 1TB WD Caviar drive as a second drive in my Vista 64-bit system, which worked really well, and wanted to upgrade my 750GB Hitachi main drive to a 2TB Caviar. But the variable spin rate (which is this disk’s core energy-saving feature) makes it way too slow as a main drive. Even multiple disk cloning attempts maxed out at about 65MBps transfer rate, with a system crash or two thrown in for good measure. So I switched to the Hitachi 2TB and, though a bit noisier than the Caviar, it works much, much better. Disk cloning and subsequent file copying all ran at a steady 100MBps transfer rate, or better. Believe me, when you’re moving hundreds of GBs of data, a 30-50% improvement in transfer rate makes a REALLY big impression. I generally like WD products — especially the lower energy consumption and quiet of the Caviar disks — but I just couldn’t put up with the slowness.
Rating: 2 / 5
I purchase this hard drive in April 2010. It died early June 2010. The write speed is extremely slow but the transfer speed is acceptable. All my hard drives are Western Digital and I have never had a problem with any of them until now. I will hold off judgment until the replacement arrives.
Rating: 1 / 5
Everytime I try to move data to the HDD it crashes and takes the server with it.
Not much else to say. It can’t handle large data being copied to it.
These files where all sizes, it did not matter.
Rating: 2 / 5