Western Digital 2.0TB Caviar Green SATA Intellipower 32 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive WD20EADS [Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging] Review
Brand : Western Digital
I snatched up two of this WD model of hard drives. By the time I wrote this review, I've had them for more than two months and they're working as expected. What I love about them is that they're very silent and they don't run hot so easily! I really recommend this hard drive if you want a very energy efficient and reliable hard disk for your backup needs. I think I made a perfect choice and I spent only 9.98 for two of these!
Western Digital 2.0TB Caviar Green SATA Intellipower 32 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive WD20EADS [Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging] Feature
- Ships in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging
- 2 TB capacity; 32 MB Cache
- SATA II Connectivity
- Reduced power consumption
- Low Power spin up
Western Digital 2.0TB Caviar Green SATA Intellipower 32 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive WD20EADS [Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging] Overview
The Western Digital 2TB Internal Hard Drive uses IntelliPower rotation and GreenPower technology to reduce power consumption and provide high-quality acoustics with low operating temperatures. It is cool, quiet, and eco-friendly, and the installation and drive management tools are included. For use at home or at the office.
Western Digital 2.0TB Caviar Green SATA Intellipower 32 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive WD20EADS [Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging] Specifications
It's easy to choose the world-class quality of a Western Digital hard drive. We’ve not only designed a drive that's right for you, we've also made it simple to find. These drives are ideal for business, home use, or high performance desktops, and are available in capacities up to 2 TB. With our renowned leading-edge engineering, you'll always make the right choice with WD. And you'll never compromise on quality.
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WD Caviar Green – Cool, quiet, eco-friendly.
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.
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Reduced power consumption - WD has reduced power consumption by up to 40 percent compared to standard desktop drives with the combination of WD's IntelliSeek, NoTouch, and IntelliPower technologies.
Helps enable eco-friendly PCs - WD Caviar Green drives yield an average drive power savings of 4-5 watts over standard desktop drives making it possible for our energy-conscious customers to build systems with higher capacities and the right balance of system performance, ensured reliability, and energy conservation.
Cool and quiet - WD GreenPower Technologyâ„¢ yields lower operating temperatures for increased reliability and low acoustics for ultra-quiet PCs and external drives.
Massive capacity - Capacities up to 2 TB offer the most available capacity for storage-intensive programs and space-hungry operating systems, like Windows Vista®, with plenty of room left over for photos, music, and video.
Perfect for external drives - External drive manufacturers can eliminate the need for a fan in a high-capacity product with a WD Caviar Green drive, the coolest and quietest in its class.
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IntelliPower - A fine-tuned balance of spin speed, transfer rate and caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance.
IntelliSeek - Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise, and vibration.
NoTouch ramp load technology - The recording head never touches the disk media ensuring significantly less wear to the recording head and media as well as better drive protection in transit.
Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR) - Employs PMR technology to achieve even greater areal density.
StableTracâ„¢ - The motor shaft is secured at both ends to reduce system-induced vibration and stabilize platters for accurate tracking, during read and write operations. (2 TB models only)
Low power spin-up - WD Caviar Green drives consume less current during startup allowing lower peak loads.
Advanced power technology - Electronic components deliver best-in-class low power consumption for reduced power requirements and increased reliability.
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Customer Reviews
Very good HDD - Gela Beroshvili - Georgia
I purshase this hdd 1 monts ago... it'is working very well
thanks so much!
Complete junk in RAID or on Linux - J. Dubovsky - Blacksburg, VA USA
Summary: unusable in a RAID array, incredibly loud and annoying on Linux.
I ordered three of these drives and they're all going back as defective.
They look inexpensive and folks give them good reviews; I talked to people who used them in their desktop setups. It turns out that Western Digital, at some point, changed the drives they were making so that they no longer work under a RAID setup. The drives routinely fault out of the array all because you can't turn off TLER. (Check wikipedia's article on Time-Limited Error Recovery if you want the gory details.) Also, when used on a Linux computer, they make a horrible loud clicking noise every ten seconds as the heads are parked and un-parked due to routine disk access. Nowhere on Western Digital's spec page about the drive does it say "do not use in a RAID setup" or "do not use in Linux."
Hey, Western Digital: lots of desktop computers (Dells, for instance) ship with RAID 0 or RAID 1 setups these days! It's no longer an "enterprise" feature, so you might want to make sure your drives work with it!
From scouring the web, it turns out that the "sub"-model number and build date are important. My three drives were WD15EADS-00P8B0, built Nov 2009, firmware 01.00A01. There are reports that older build-date drives can be made to work; true or not, mine could not. Western Digital's customer service is of zero help, blaming the problem on everything but the drive.
No more Western Digital drives for me, ever. I've put WD drives in my last three builds because they're inexpensive and reliable, but no longer. Back to Seagate drives (yes, even after their ST31500341AS firmware debacle)!
I do not know how long these drives will last. - Sean Patzer - Fairbanks, AK United States
Due to poor packing of these drives (Boxes where not really secure in larger box, drives were not packed with foam or plastic retainer, subjected to shock of being bounced around) I have no idea if MTBF has been significantly reduced. My gut feeling is yes, it has. But until the drives fail, I will not know. I expect the lifetime of the drives to be about 3 yrs.
Some background on me. I have been doing work in the IT field for almost 20yrs now. This is the worst packaging of Hard Drives I have seen. Although the pictures of where Amazon sent the drives in a slim envelope/card board was pretty scary. I hope to update this post around the 90 day mark to see if either drive has failed.
1/8/2010 - Later in the afternoon/early evening.
After talking to others in our IT department, it seems that this style of product packaging is becoming more prevalent and I should really wait the 90 days before passing judgement. "Yes it is new style packaging, yes it looks flimsy. No, it really is not." was the message I got. Okay, my intestinal fortitude is still not where I would like it, but I am willing to give it a go. If I pass the 30 day mark without drive failure, I will mark up a star. If I pass the 90 day mark without a drive failure, I will give a whole hearted endorsement.
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