Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM

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Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM

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ddd910@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 12/29/10	Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons:none Pros:large capcity, solid drive Comment: Paid $69.99 during boxing week sale. Now they jack up the price to $79.99. If you need a 2TB hard drive to store all your music and videos, this is the one to get
Dustin_H@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 12/28/10	Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons:NA Pros:Fast for a green drive. Super quiet. 64mb cache really helps speed small transfers. Comment: I've got a total of 10 of these drives in 2 PC's.I have 6 in my server in raid 5, and they work great.I've not had any failures at all, never had to rebuild the array.I've not had any cluster failures.This would make a great drive for any storage.The 64mb cache is very handy for transferring small files.I get about 110MB/s consistently on larger files.
Michel_B@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 12/27/10	Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons:only 2TB ? Pros:2TB, cool, quiet Comment: I bought it to store movies, videos, games, music, pictures ... and well, it can hold 2TB of data! Stays cool, speed is good enough for a data hard drive. Using it in my FreeNAS and considering buying 3 more for a Raid 5
Bojamijams@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 12/27/10	Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons:8second park time (should be changed with WD firmware utility) Pros:Great price, 64MB cache Comment: Ultimately, its worth the price, despite the configuring you have to do before hand (using wdidle3.exe). Not quite as quiet as a black drive but for this price, you can't complain.
Alan_C@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 12/26/10	Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons:None come to mind Pros:Low energy, cost effective Comment: Best drive to get if you looking for something that is low energy consumption such as for an external enclosure or dock.
npc3232@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 12/23/10	Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons:none Pros:- Fast for low power drive- Large capacity Comment: Both hard drives I purchased work well with good performance over eSata and USB in a dock.I have had no data corruption or other issues after a month of use.
Erik_U@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 12/19/10	Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons:Slow to spin up after it's been hibernating. Pros:Quiet and runs cool. Comment: I have been using this in a Synology DS110j NAS. My hard drive has packed in after less than 2 months. I have to say I'm very disappointed. Since my 30 days is gone I guess I'll be dealing with WD for warranty. I really expected better reliability since this is a WD. I have a 1 TB WD Caviar Green in an external enclosure that I've been using for close to 18 months with my Bell 6131 receiver. It runs 24/7 and has been working like a champ. I'll warranty this 2 TB, and see how the next works. Maybe I just got a dud.
smithrmark@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 12/15/10	Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons:none Pros:price 99.99 Comment: great hdd for the price runs quite and low on power. great little units cant wait for the 3tb ones.i have no issues with this hdd and have lots of stuff on it
Matt_J@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 12/15/10	Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons:none that I have found Pros:better than my old IDE drives Comment: Used in an external enclosure. Works as advertised. I have been using western digital for a long time. Like the customer service when and if a drive has died.
Stormscape@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 12/15/10	Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons:Slow Pros:Low power, Quiet and very reasonable price Comment: Another typical Green Low Power drive from Western Digital. It appears (to me at least) to run very quietly, and doesn't use much power. Of course, since it's Green it can be expected to be slower than other high power drives of the same capacity, but then that's the tradeoff. Have not noticed any problems since purchase and would definitely recommend if you are in need of storage drives.
dustin7837@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 12/13/10	Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons:none. Pros:QuietLow power usageCheap Comment: This is really your best bang for your dollar when looking for a storage or backup drive. I would not recommend using this for an OS drive due to it's head parking feature and the fact that it is a low RPM drive. If you want an OS HDD, look at the WD black.
Ed.@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 12/12/10	Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons:Green... so their problems. Pros:Excellent space/pricing Comment: Let's just state the obviously, 2TB and prices for it is dropping, you can't beat the space/pricing that you get from this drive.Keeping it short, it's a green drive, so it's obviously not an OS drive... but you also don't know the rpm which the drive spins at or when it'll randomly go to sleep...Great drive for storage.
Marvin_M@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 12/10/10	Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons:Automatic Head Parking Pros:Price, Quality Comment: Bought one of these strictly for disk-based network backups. It works well for this. As others have mentioned, it's not a fast drive and it really should not be used for your Operating System.What not enough people are reporting in these reviews is that drive automatically parks it's head every 4 seconds when it's not active. This leads to a tremendous amount of head parking cycles and has been attributed to early drive failure.There is a utility called wdidle3 which will report how many seconds your drive is configured to wait before parking the heads. The utility also has the ability to turn off this 'feature' and it's highly recommended.All in all, a great cheap drive but, as with all things, knowing it's strengths and weaknesses (and their work-arounds) is key.I strongly recommend this drive and I also strongly recommend turning off the head parking 'feature'. In addition, is it just me or is Western Digital trying to cache in on the 'green' market? I'll leave you to decide :-)
Reewind@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 12/09/10	Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons:5400rpm if that concerns you, but this hard drive was meant to be used as storage. Pros:SilentGood warrantyReputable brandGood price for the money Comment: Pretty much everyone else who reviewed this product before me mentioned everything I wanted to say. It's a good hard drive.
QuickSurfer@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 12/04/10	Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons:Obviously not much of a performance drive Pros:Great reliable drive Comment: I am extremely happy with this drive as for the price you really cant beat it. Great drive for archiving videos, music or whatever else you need.
T O@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 12/03/10	Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons:not very fast Pros:quiet and run cooler Comment: I run four of these in my media/external storage. They run fine, quiet and cooler. I would recomend for storage use. Not the fastest but work fine for media storage. Bought them on sale for a great price.
Jim_A@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 12/03/10	Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons:I'll see where the head parking issue has gone soon enough - but mine are backup drives. Pros:Drive one - of many. update - second drive went as smoothly as first.I got a super price.Of course as a Linux user I was a little wary of how things would go. Would things not work, and then require lots of work backing up stuff a second time.http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/237I bravely triple checked that the drive was the proper one, then went to a root terminal and issued:# parted --align opt /dev/sdX (where X varies according to your HDD)Just to be sure I moved to a graphical interface GParted and was given the correct options as to start sector and not using cylinders.Things seemed to go too smoothly.Now I'm copying data at the usual speeds I expect.I'm using a NextStar dock with an A/C fan blowing on the back, and checking drive temps with hddtemp (Linux).I doubt that anyone will use this as a main operating system drive - but from kernel 2.6.34 it will be possible to install properly on 4k drives. Comment: Overall, I looked over all the setup instructions, went with the simplest which worked, and now I'm saying to myself, "That was it? A few seconds of setup?".Of course a block check of the drives can take place overnight.....For now, I'm really happy. The arcane instructions came down to running one CLI command which apparently worked, then looking in amazement as GParted came up with all the suggested settings. And things do seem to be working just fine at 47-60MiB/s - which given the nature of what is being copied is normal. Temps of 30-34C. I could do better with proper enclosures and I got some of them, too. This review was modfied by poster @ 12-04-10 03:52 PM
Bude@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 12/02/10	Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons:none Pros:cheap, quiet high storage capability Comment: i bought many of them to put in a storage device and so far its work good, its quiet. i got them for a good price on special sale
Yuki@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 12/02/10	Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons:5200rpm (max) Pros:Huge amount of storagequite operation for harddrive Comment: If large amount of storage space is what you need than maybe this drive is for you as long as you are not looking for fast read/write. But you get to save the planet a little by using green.
Donald_L@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 12/01/10	Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons:-not for use as normal hard drive Pros:-space-lasts longer since it shuts down when not in use Comment: make sure you only use these babies for storage! these hard drives last much longer since they slow down when not in use.
icecube_pmb@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 11/30/10	Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons:a bit slowwarm Pros:Large Storage Space Comment: Bought this drive for backup and it does its job. I also plugged it into a drive dock and works fine.
Jason_B@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 11/29/10	Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons:a litter slower but you get what you pay for. Pros:Huge storage capacity Comment: Bought this to beef up my media storage. I stream media via wired and wireless connections with no problems. I wouldn't recommend this drive for an operating system.
J35T3R 101@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 11/25/10	Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons:None at the moment Pros:-cheap-large capacity 2TB-low power Comment: Bought this as a storage drive been great so far, quiet and cool.I don't recommend for use as an OS drive.
¸.·°´'`°¤,¸mk_ln¸.·°´'`°¤,¸@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 11/24/10	Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons:5400RPM, not compatible with all devices Pros:capacity, value Comment: I purchased this drive to use it in a thermaltake blacx duet. Unfortunately, this drive is not recognized over the esata connection. I have tested this with multiple drives and duets and it seems that the duets do not like green drives, or at least the ones with, supposedly, variable RPM. Having said that, I would still recommend this drive as a media storage drive b/c of $/GB.
basto@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 11/23/10	Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM Cons:None Pros:Great price per GB"Green" Comment: This was purchased just for storage purposes and it works great, perfect for music, video, data, backup. Very low cost per Gb.

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