Western Digital WD20EADS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 32MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM

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Western Digital WD20EADS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 32MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM

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Amir_D@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 08/14/10	Western Digital WD20EADS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 32MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons: none. Pros: CHEAP, reliable!! Comment: I am very happy with this drive! - I bought the first one just over a month ago, primarily for backups. Namely, I have 2 WD Passport portable drives on which I store all my family photos and videos. So I wanted to have a dedicated drive for backups only. This fit the bill quite well. More than enough space for all the photos and videos now and in the future. The new camera I bought is 14 MP so all the files are rather large, and the same goes for HD videos. I recently bought one more of these for my sister. Can recommend it to anyone!
Alphajin@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 08/09/10	Western Digital WD20EADS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 32MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons: Low RPM (articles seem to indicate 5400 RPM), not the fastest drive out there. Pros: Great price for the size. Comment: If you need backup / bulk storage it's a great value, esp. when it's on sale. No issues so far, although it seems slower to get out of Green mode compared to the 1TB version of this same drive I have.
Lance W@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 08/06/10	Western Digital WD20EADS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 32MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons: A little on the slow sideHead parking may annoy you Pros: 2TB CapacityVery quietLow vibrationEnergy efficientCheap cheap cheap Comment: This is simply the best storage drive you can get, well this or the WD20EARS (the WD20EADS has less cache, but plays better with XP). Compared to modern 7200rpm drives, the Greens are a bit slower booting up, loading programs, installing/uninstalling programs, and transferring files, but the difference is small enough that I think most people wouldn't notice.Because it's 5400rpm, it uses less power, vibrates a lot less, and is incredibly quiet, even when seeking. The only annoying thing is its head parks after 8 seconds of idle just like a notebook drive and makes an audible click when doing so. A lot of people have made a big deal about this like it will cause the drive to fail quicker but there's no evidence of that.
Sdalmonte@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 08/06/10	Western Digital WD20EADS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 32MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons: Nothing really Pros: Tons of spacePrice Comment: Using this as a weekly off-site backup drive. I had to buy this version instead of the EARS model because Acronis does not support "Advanced Format" just yet.Runs slow, but that is to be expected from a Green line hard drive.Can get quite toasty at times, if you use this in any form of hot-swap bay, be careful when removing it!
richard_m@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 08/05/10	Western Digital WD20EADS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 32MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons: none yet Pros: lots of room, nice and cool and quiet Comment: picked this up on sale for a storage drive to compliment my ssd drive. well worth the money. lol, no more storage issues for those HD files.
Ncix34567@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 08/02/10	Western Digital WD20EADS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 32MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons: runs 5 to 10 degrees Celsius warmer than the equivalent EARS model. Pros: Capacity, price Comment: I bought this drive for my older computer that uses windows xp. The capacity size is great and was just what I was looking for in a drive. I used the Western Digital tool called WDIDLE3 to disable head parking to increase the lifespan. It was on sale here at Ncix so that made my choice even better. I did notice that it runs 5 to 10 degrees Celsius warmer than the equivalent EARS model, but other than that it runs great. This review was modfied by poster @ 08-02-10 07:42 PM
wlee@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 07/21/10	Western Digital WD20EADS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 32MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons: no firmware upgrade Pros: large capcityconsume less powerprice Comment: I bought these for raid 1 setup in NAS, before being discontinued. So far so good, no complaints.If it's going to raid setup, recommend to run tler utility.
MichaelY@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 07/17/10	Western Digital WD20EADS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 32MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons: Low RPM drive.Slow spin up time. Pros: Low RPM drive.Low cost per gigabyte.Not advance format. Comment: Opted to buy this instead of the EARS because this doesn't have the advance format thingy that is not really usable for computers still on Windows XP.My one big complain is that this drive seems to spin up from idle slower than my last WD Green drive. Takes like 5 seconds before you can start accessing files compared to 2-3 seconds.
Cannon Fodder@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 07/12/10	Western Digital WD20EADS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 32MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons: None so far.... Pros: Decent price, large size. Comment: Just picked up one of these to replace a 1TB drive as our backup drive(in a Vantec USB/eSATA external enclosure), and at this point, it seems like a good buy.This drive, although it's slower than others, is perfectly suited to use as a large backup drive. I backed-up the various boot & storage drives in two desktop computers, and one laptop, all on this one drive, and all these tasks were performed as quickly as two other 7200 RPM SATA drives.This drive seemed quite toasty when formatted while in a Thermaltake BlacX dock, but when installed in the above mentioned Vantec enclosure, it wasn't any hotter(probably cooler, actually) than the previously installed 1TB Hitachi drive.... I suppose it was the aluminum case, that dissipates heat, that kept it from getting too hot.I'd like to say this drive is quiet as well, but in all honesty, when doing the backups mentioned, there were a few fans running, due to a recent hot spell, so I can't really give an objective opinion on the noise this drive produces. Suffice it to say, that when I leaned in close to the drive to see how loud it was, I couldn't really hear it, so I suspect it's no noisier than any other drives on the market.If you need a large amount of storage on one drive, this seems to be an excellent choice, especially when it's on sale.
George_M@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 06/30/10	Western Digital WD20EADS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 32MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons: none Pros: Price per GBCompatible with WinXP Comment: Pricematched this to a very reasonable $/GB. Quiet reliable drive that is compatible with some of the WinXP systems that I still have running. Been happy with the 1TB and 1.5TB Green drives and gave this one a spin.
Danny_E@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 06/06/10	Western Digital WD20EADS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 32MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons: None that I know of yet Pros: QuietHD Space!Compatible with NAS's as no AFT! Comment: I purchased this from ncix last week as I had previously gotten the WD20EARS drive from memex in Calgary soon to realize that my DNS 323 NAS will eventually fail or degrade with the new AFT (Advanced format technology) drives. I returned it and was only able to find the EAD drive from Ncix. Put it into the enclosure, formatted fine, and was up and running with pretty decent speeds in no time!
Jonathan_S@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 06/02/10	Western Digital WD20EADS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 32MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons: none Pros: QuietPrice Comment: I bought this drive for a friend who needed a second HD to store movies. This drive is perfect for that: At 5400rpms, it runs cooler than any other drive and its price is low.
the Swollen Goat@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 06/02/10	Western Digital WD20EADS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 32MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons: None. Pros: Very quiet.Great $ per GB ratio.Perfect for the average user that's going to be storing lots of video files without spending a lot of money.3 year warranty. Comment: I have used Western Digital hard drives for years because of their superior quality and this drive is no exception.This drive is very quiet.It has a 3 year warranty. Great price for so much storage.
Pierre_C@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 05/31/10	Western Digital WD20EADS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 32MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons: None I found Pros: Lots of capacity!Good value when on sale Comment: I got this for my backup external HD enclosure.It works great and is perfect for my eSata/USB backups.Haven't tried using it for other purpose.The drive is quiet.
Marc_S@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 05/20/10	Western Digital WD20EADS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 32MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons: 1st one i bought was having intermittent i/o errors, had to be RMAed. Pros: Size, price, size Comment: I bought this drive and because of moving I had to wait two weeks to install it. It was giving me i/o errors in linux and would intermittently remount as read only. I have dual boot so booted into Windows 7 and ran the WD Tools and no errors on quick and long test. So I fought with the thing for two weeks thinking maybe bios, drivers, cables, port, I don't like to RMA something unless I can prove it is the product. So I was able to prove out that it was the drive. Turned out that I was over the 30 days for NCIX RMA, 3 days over :(My own fault though. The upside is that WD RMA was very good and WD tools finally gave me proper errors for it. I think it was getting worse as I used it. So WD cross shipped a replacement drive which seems to be working much better, although the money I saved on the sale price was negated by my having to pay for shipping of original drive to WD.I am giving it a 3* satisfactory only because WD got me a replacement quickly.
Jeev@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 05/17/10	Western Digital WD20EADS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 32MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons: None Pros: Cool, Quiet, Price Comment: Awesome storage drives. I own over 25TB of WD GReen drives, and would not use another Brand/Product line for mass storage.
littledummy@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 05/13/10	Western Digital WD20EADS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 32MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons: none Pros: Good size for storage Comment: I use two of these in a DNS-323 in a raid 1 setup for storage and backup. They work great for this, I don't think they are rally meant for heavy traffic or demanding speed.For the price on sale and what it is meant for it gets 5 stars.
Mike_Y@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 05/12/10	Western Digital WD20EADS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 32MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons: none Pros: 2TB!!! quiet and low power Comment: I use this for my media server. It has 2TB and it's perfect for storing all my media. It's quiet and uses low power. So far no problems with this drive. I will buy another as soon as I run out of space.
Garbage man@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 05/11/10	Western Digital WD20EADS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 32MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons: not that fast Pros: Good Storage drive, also very quiet Comment: Only buy this when you need cheap and reliable storage drives. It might be the best bang for your buck in this situation. Not that fast to use with a OS though
Jin xi (tony)_L@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 05/10/10	Western Digital WD20EADS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 32MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons: no Pros: reliable ,quiet, efficient,power saver. Comment: At last an affordable 2TB drive for long term storage that is economical enough to buy lots of. This is not my 1st caviar green drive. It's my 7th (with 1TBs and 1.5TBs). I am so happy witht hem that I would recomend them to anyone.
Chun Hang_L@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 05/09/10	Western Digital WD20EADS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 32MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons: - none at the moment Pros: - low cost/gb- energy efficient Comment: Great drive for storage, we have a few of these going in our media storage. Looking to buy more once they're filled and putting them all in raid!
Mike_S@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 05/03/10	Western Digital WD20EADS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 32MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons: none Pros: 2TB, no longer $300, Western Digital Comment: It's about time 2tb drives become affordable. I got a few of these and they have been working flawlessly. Although green drives, they can get hot if not properly cooled.
James_Y@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 04/28/10	Western Digital WD20EADS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 32MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons: - Little on the slow side Pros: - Quiet- Low power consuption Comment: I bought 2 of these for my DNS-323 NAS server. They have worked flawlessly. When these are on sale, they are a good deal!
Gamer Rating: Review Date: 04/23/10	Great drive Comment: I bought three of these and have put them into a Raid 5. It dropped the power consumption on my system vs 2 seagate 1tb drives by a large amount and reduced the heat output by 4c. A great drive, I have not had one fail on me yet, running nearly continuous for a year.
Lawrence_L@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 04/21/10	Western Digital WD20EADS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 32MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons: - none Pros: - quiet- cheap- space Comment: This is a affordable 2TB drive. It is really quiet.It works fine and I like the green aspect. I would recommend to anyone.

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