Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
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 Rating: Review Date: 11/12/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
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Rating: Review Date: 11/06/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Comment:
Inexpensive, 2TB 64 Mb. Windows couldn't locate the drive. I had to manually add it. Immediately after windows and Bios identified the drive the S.M.A.R.T was negative. Faulty drive. Trying an additional tough drive of the exact same sort. If its superior I'll rate greater. |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/31/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:none
Pros:does what its suppose to. Comment:
This couldn't be easier. Plug and play 2 TB HDD. Has been working with no problems. Great Shipping as usual with NCIX,I live far from a urban center and had my drive in 3 business days. I love this company. 2.5 TB wasn't enough space but 4.5 should do me for awhile lol. |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/31/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:quite slow, not recommended for programs and games
Pros:Large hard drive made for data storage Comment:
Bought 3 at 70$ for a NAS raid, no problems with all 3. they run as expected, they take less energy and keep cool and quiet |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/28/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Comment:
Quiet when becoming applied continuously for long periods. Great speed and performance. Doesn't provide compost for the vegetable garden. I knew there would be some trade-offs for lower power consumption, but the idle lag is not too poor. When the drive is up to full speed you'd by no means know the distinction. I have two of these in a Netgear NAS bought from Newegg and they present all the storage I could dream of (for now at least). |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/24/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:none
Pros:allows me to store 2tb of data. its quiet. it works Comment:
allows me to store 2tb of data. its quiet. it works. its a hard drive. |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/20/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:none
Pros:big size, cheap,. good warranty period. Comment:
so far no failure,not my first 2TB green drive,so work same as usual,careful on your power supply setup,Hard Drive usually failed due to the motherboard and the power-supply,except DOA in the first week or two. |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/19/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:none
Pros:Lots of storage, fair priced, reliable as far as i can tell Comment:
It spins very quiet and doesn't vibrate like other hard-drives. I use it as a back up for my video files. If you are looking for a good back up drive, this is for you. If you are looking for something that will do your laundry for you, then probably not |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/13/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:some buzz while searchinghuge driveheavy built
Pros:green hard drivevery beautiful lookingquiet Comment:
drive works as fast as i know. no need firmware. cheap drive. to recommand for the price of sale. |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/12/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Comment:
Price, capacity. Unreliable! This is a followup review: the initial 1 was DOA. Newegg promptly shipped me a replacement. It lasted less than a month, now fails all the WD diagnostics, so I have to RMA it to WD. Soon after this experience, and failures of a couple of significant (green) Samsungs, I believe I'll stick with Seagates and Hitachis for future purchases. |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/09/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:not much other than speed and the fact that 2TB does not really mean mean 2TB, but 1.81TB
Pros:great price and reliability plus easy to setup and use right away, quiet as well Comment:
I bought this hard drive for storing movies and other media files, where I am not really needing high performance from this drive, but reliability and no bad sector errors. so I am happy with this HDD. |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/08/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:slower than SSD
Pros:Lots of space for the buck. Comment:
Purchased on special...still ok to buy these as a second storage drive, but use a SSD as your OS drive. |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/05/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:None
Pros:2TB Great Price Comment:
Purchased this HDD to assemble a desktop and was a great price for a lot of space. |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/05/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:a little bit more expensive
Pros:very quiet and energy efficient Comment:
Not the cheapest on the market but it's energy efficient and should save you electricity bill and get back the difference pretty easily. |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/04/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:speed
Pros:cheaptons of storage Comment:
I have 4 of these in my HTPC/severpc running in raid 5 without any problems, the pc has been on 90% of the time since they have been installed and I've had no problemsSince i use the pc mainly as a sever I have backup software running to backup data to a raid box with 2 3tb hatchi drives in raid 0 once a week in case 2 drives fail before i notice the 1st drive fail |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/03/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:None
Pros:It's a hard drive. Comment:
It's my 3rd purchase of this drive model... What can I say more ? |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/02/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:it is slow
Pros:large storage capacity Comment:
I bought this to add to a media storage server. It is slow, high capacity, uses little power, and is backed by Western Digital reliability. I have 10 of these drives in use, have had trouble with one on install, but it was quickly replaced by WD. I would not use this as a primary OS drive, but if you are looking for media storage I do not hesitate to recommend this or any other drive in the WD Green line. |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/01/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:I guess the jumper alignment stuff can be a bit confusing?
Pros:Pretty much everything Comment:
While I think that the allegiance of people to certain PC brands is often silly, I am a ardent fan of the WD Green line. I don't put much stock in such anecdotal evidence of quality, but I've bought 8 drives from the Green line over the past few years and have yet to see a failure, and many of my Seagates have died during that period.I'm not qualified to speak of performance, but I can say that this is a ton of storage space, and a drive that runs pretty cool and quietly. |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/29/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:-slow-you dont want to use this as a boot drive
Pros:-cheap-alot of space Comment:
overall cheap drive. get it if you want to use it for extra space and back up file |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/28/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:louder than expected while seeking for a green drive.
Pros:Lots of storage spaceCheapWD qualityLocal RMA facility in Mississauga if ever needed avoiding insane shipping costs. Comment:
Lots of storage spaceCheapWD qualityI've owned abt 8 WD drives to date and only one has ever needed an RMA. Can't say the same for Seagate drives.Definitely not for OS use but I knew this going in.Overall Awesome drive. |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/28/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:slower response time
Pros:Nice and quiet, good capacity Comment:
This is not meant to be used as a system drive, it's meant to be used as a bulk storage device, which is what it excells at. I've been quite happy with the performance of this drive in that role. |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/28/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:none so far
Pros:quiet and reliable Comment:
as usual, the western digital is great for its price. using it for storage and nothing more. no issues so far and not expecting any in the near future |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/24/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:-bit slow, but knew that going in.
Pros:+green+spacious (2TB)+not noisy like other drives Comment:
Very good drive - spacious, quiet-moderate noise (definitely not an increase in audible sound coming from the computer) and the fact it's a bit greener is a plus. A bit slower than say the black but is to be expected. |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/24/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:- Been reading about these autopark timer...- Still slow despite 64MB cache
Pros:- Seem like lot of space for now- Quiet Comment:
Followed the forum suggestion to disable the autopark timer with WDidle3.exe. Doesn't take long to fill up 2Tb. So far so good. This review was modfied by poster @ 09-24-11 03:41 PM |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/21/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:none so far
Pros:Cheap, quiet and fast for a "green" drive Comment:
Used in an HTPC, where quietness is important. Really satisfied. |
Low cost. Drive was sort of DOA, my OS booted up with the drive not formatted, but as soon as I try to do something with the drive, it vanishes from my pc like it doesn't exist anymore. When unplug and replug the drive with OS booted, it can see it again, till I try to do Something with the drive, at which time it vanishes. RMA'd via WD, whom have a poor RMA approach. Have 2 other of these drives, however each were bought through a time this item had FAR fewer low ratings. Not certain what WD have done with the last few shipments, but they must be messing them up somehow with this several DOA drives. Just a thought. My suggestion would be to wait a couple of months and see how their drives pan out ahead of throwing money at it and getting to wait for a very probably RMA.