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

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Hello all,I bought this to used in an enclosure and it work fine with Wnidows XP but you need to install a software from western digital internet site - to make it work. If not Windows XP will not work.Install the software and then plug your western digital hard diskI have bought a previous western digital that dies after a year - hopefully this one dont diesit make less noise compare to the other brand This review was modfied by poster @ 04-12-11 10:16 AM

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I use this drive to store my media files, so far so good. It's very quiet and running cool in the enclosure. After transferring data, I installed it as internal. Will monitor for a couple month, if it's stable as well, would buy another one.

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great for a standalone drive, not in the has box from dlink thou; good for just plain backup drive, not recommended if you work large files from it

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I always been satisfied with Western Digital hard drives. This one is no exception.Very reliable,low power,low noise.Needs a while to format but this is no issue.Very good value.

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2tb for low price, would by again for sure. Fit well for my personnal home multimedia server. The speed is absolutely correct for that kind of normal purposes.

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I've been using WD Caviar Green drives since their introduction and for a number of applications. Unless you require a blindingly fast drive these are one of the best, if not the best, drives available. For external drive enclosures and SOHO/NAS servers, they are a perfect fit due to their low energy consumption. They also work well for extra storage in a PC. The only issue I've experienced is that they take a few seconds to spin up from standby if they haven't been accessed for some time. That's usually not an issue but could be if instant access is required. If fast access and speed are required, go with an SSD or Caviar Black drive.

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This is WD Caviar Green, so it's not their fastest drive. If you're looking for a storage drive then this is what you're looking for. Lots of storage with 2TB but not very fast 5400rpm ...

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Overall a great drive. I bought it to serve as storage and that's exactly what it does, very well.It is pretty quiet i don't hear it at all over my seagate drives especially when they wake up.Not too hot and overall performs acceptably. Nothing bad to say about it...

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I wish I bought more of these - well I just might get more. This is the hard drive of hard drives when it comes to external storage solutions. You need this type of quality for your storing needs.It's big, fast and very very affordable. GET IT.

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Bought two of these during the last sale. Both work wonderfully. Makes a great storage drive for content that is not time intensive like music and video files. Is not designed to offer the performance for a speedy boot/games/applications drive though, so just remember to use it for what it's intended for best results.

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got it when it's on sale for $100... better than buying 5 stacks of 100 DVD-Rs. Just got another one as I needed more storage. My only concern is what happens if it suddenly decides to kick the bucket... might need to think about Raid 1 or something...

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Well the reason I bought this drive are listed in the strengths and so far it is running fine for me. I suppose I could've listed slow speed as a weakness but I'm using this for mass storage of movies so speed isn't a concern really.

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I put this drive in my Windows 7 64 bit HTPC. Initialize the disk and start using it. It was that simple. 2TB will hold a lot of movies, so is perfect for this type of application. Transfer speeds are also excellent.

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One of the best purchase I ever made. Price was fantastic for what you get and tons of storage space. Great for backup

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This drive is going to be used to store movies and TV shows that I want to stream. I haven't had any problems yet even at 1080p streaming video around. I love the fact that the make very little noise if any and they run so cool. With such a low price for the amount of storage you get I will buy more.

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One of the best HDD I've had. I remember buying a 1TB drive for the same price exactly a year ago, this western digital drive is definitely the best bang for the buck. Write speed is very good with this drive, I get an average of 85MB/s transferring movies.

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It is a really good drive and it is very cheap for the amount of storage space it has. Although not as fast as other dives, it is much quieter than the seagate I have. Would recommend to anyone using this as a backup drive.

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Good drive overall. Although Green drives are supposed to focus on efficiency more than high end performance, I got some good speed results with this. HD Tune showed 127 MB/s maximum sequential read, 94 MB/s average read and 160 MB/s burst speed.The only problem is the head parking. My understanding is that it's done to save power, but this drive does it very excessively to the point that it can lower the lifespan of the unitWestern Digital has a tool called WDIDLE3 to disable headparking. The tool does not officially support this particular drive but some have reported that it works anyway. This review was modfied by poster @ 07-14-10 12:37 AM

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This appears to be a good drive at a great GB/$ price. However, the firmware incorrectly reports the Physical Sector size of 512 bytes to the OS. (f/w 50.0AB50). This requires non-windows users to manually partition the drive to properly align the file system partitions with the underlying drive to avoid the drive invoking emulation. WD is leading the market with their 4k sector drives, but unfortunately this is a poor implementation that will hopefully be fixed in a future firmware version (no updates currently available.) I bought this drive for the price, and in this case I got what I paid for.

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hooked up this baby with a HDD enclosure, it works flawlessly right out of box. It's quite but a little bit hot. But for the price, i can't complain too much. Highly recommended!

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No problem installing in Windows 7. You should never do a quick format on a new drive just in case you have surface errors which you won't discover until its too late. The format took over night and there were no errors on the drive. If you want to fast format, and then check the disk later, over night, you can use a command window to create  a CHKDSK /R. Reboot and let the system check the disk for problems; before you have problems.The package clearly states what to do if you are using WinXP, either place a jumper or download their alignment utility - pretty simple. The resulting drive is easily moved over to Win7 if you want to do that later.

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Installed it into a Ubuntu 9.10 pc as backup drive. I simply aligned it with fdisk (read align section), did a quick format to NTFS under Windows XP and the drive was ready to go in less than 5 minutes. I was expecting to run the format process overnight :PI used hdparm testing my old 500GB WD drive, my 1.5TB Green EADS drive and this 2TB EARS drive:old 500GB WD : Read - 74.38 MB/sec1.5 TB WD EADS:Read - 85.26 MB/sec2 TB WD EARS: Read - 99.53 MB/secAlign under Ubuntu 9.10:$ sudo fdisk -u /dev/sda$ m$ n$ p

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what can i say more 2TB for 99$ with free ground shipping cant find any better deal!!! come-on!good for back-up ( i got 2 of it)

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Price: I think the Caviar Green 2TB drive (EARS or EADS) is a very good deal when you compare with the Caviar Black (almost 50% cheaper). A year ago the Green 1TB is only ~20 bucks cheaper than the Black.Performance: Don't expect performance from these drives since they are designed to save power. On Windows Vista SP2 it achieves 68MB/s sequential writes (compared to 105MB/s on the Black).

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This drive has done exactly what I wanted it to. Making a 4TB file server has been a peice of cake now.