Western Digital Caviar Green 1 TB SATA III Intellipower 64 MB Cache Bulk/OEM 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive Desktop Hard Drive – WD10EARX Best Price
Western Digital Caviar Green 1 TB SATA III Intellipower 64 MB Cache Bulk/OEM 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive Desktop Hard Drive – WD10EARX
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List Price: $ 74.99
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- WD Caviar Green hard drives reduce power consumption by up to 40%
- IntelliPower – A fine-tuned balance of spin speed,
- IntelliSeek – Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise, and vibration.
- 1 TB capacity holds up to 200,000 digital photos, 250,000 MP3 files, and 120 hours of HD video.
- 3 year limited warranty.
- Offers best-in-class acoustics and operating temperature and 3rd generation SATA interface.
- Transfer rate and caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance.
Available in capacities up to 3TB, 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.
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about 7 months ago
Great storage drive, but decreased speed,
I have tons of WD drives and they’ve been around for awhile (including two 2tb ‘green’ drives), so I decided to give this one a chance even with the half/half ratings it had.
This drive is great! Popped it into my esata dock, turned it on, and windows disk management saw it instantly, as the full ~2.7tb. Initialized it, making sure to pick GPT, and then formatted it. Windows saw the whole partition, no fuss.
To test the drive, I did a low level format, then a disk check. When both came back fine, I copied as many files as I could fit on the drive, and then did another disk check. Came back fine again, so I ran DiskMark to see what speeds I was getting. When the drive was almost full (~3gb free), I was averaging around 30-40MBps. after I reformatted and ran the test again, I averaged ~60MBps. Compare this to a smaller hard drive and you will see that this is considerably slower. (I just ran DiskMark on a full WD 500GB drive that’s about 5 years old, and it averaged 80MBps)
However, 30MBps is plenty of speed to stream movies, which is what I’m using it for. This drive won’t make the best boot drive, but it makes a great archival one.
As I’ve only owned it for about a week now, I can’t comment on long term reliability, but I will update if anything happens.
For now, I do recommend this drive.
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|about 7 months ago
Efficient hard drive,
My 500 GB exterior hard drive died so I was very happy to get this one. I was surprised that I had to buy a new case for it because the one I had was so old that it was not compatible with the connecting wires on this drive. I didn’t realize that until I tried to switch them.
So make sure that you have the correct connections for this drive–it is SATA III which is also called SATA 6 Gbps (Gigbits per second, not Gigabytes, which is abbreviated GB not Gb. The difference is a factor of 8.) If this is confusing, then get someone to help you order the right case.
It doesn’t get as hot as the old hard drive (which was made by Hitachi) and it is very quiet. It seems to be working very well and it is supposed to be faster and to use less electricity. I guess since it doesn’t get as hot that it is using less electricity but I can’t tell if it is faster or not. Honestly, it seems to be the same speed as my old hard drive which was fast enough not to cause any problems. It did take a long time to re-format this drive but I didn’t time it.
2 TB is a lot of space for a hard drive but an interesting fact is that because of differing terminology, you don’t really get 2 TB–the actual usable space is 1,863 GB. 2 TB is 2,000 GB so this drive is “short” 137 GB. It is a small percentage but my first computer only had 2.3 GB total, to put it in perspective in terms of raw numbers.
This hard drive doesn’t look like the first photo, it looks like the second photo. The first photo is what it looks like without the cover but of course you can’t remove the cover because it must be kept free of dust.
As far as pricing, the cost of hard drives has come down a lot. I paid almost twice as much for my old one as this one costs and it only had 1/4 of the space which means it costs about 1/8 as much on an equivalent basis per GB. This will probably be the last hard drive I ever need because soon everything will be in The Cloud!
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|about 7 months ago
HUGE & SMALL!,
A perfect replacement and upgrade for the 2TB Apple Time Machine. Factory hard drives on older Time Machine’s were apparently NOT a long-life item because mine died after only a couple years. So, rather than forking over the mega-bucks again… I decided to try replacing the HD. It was much simpler than I thought and with photo instructions I found online… replacing the 2TB drive with 3TB was “easy button” easy! This Western Digital drive is known for its quietness and it lives up to the reports. And quietness is important to me since my Time Machine has been moved from another room and now sits just above my head in the book shelf on my desk… and only if I listen very closely can I hear any sound! So, HUGE storage and SMALL noise… a GOOD combination!
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