Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
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 Rating: Review Date: 07/06/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:- Could be cheaper
Pros:- Reliable, cheap |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/04/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:You need to jumper pins 7 and 8 for Windows XP, and it did not come with a jumper. Stole one off an old card.
Pros:Great Price, Windows XP Formatted to 1863GB or 1.863TB , so not quite 2TB as expected. Comment:
If you are buying this for windows XP you might need to set the jumper if you are using it as 1 large partition. Check if you have the jumper, otherwise make sure you have one kicking around.I own several WD Green drives, no problems.-1 start for not having the jumper. Only required for Windows XP. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/28/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:None
Pros:Great Value for the price Comment:
This is a great item for backing or storage. Have had zero problems thus far. Would definitely buy another one if on sale. Can't go wrong. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/27/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:Little slower than most 7200 RPM drives.
Pros:High capacity, low power and super quiet. Comment:
Excellent backup and media storage drive. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/26/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:Did not come with box or installation instructions
Pros:Great Value at Sale Price and Very Quiet Comment:
Using it for back up drive and for storage of large media files. I was initially concerned that it might be much slower then my main drive, but I have yet encounter any situations where this has created a problem for me. It has met all my expectations. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/23/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:Slower than black drive
Pros:Good price and quite drive. 2TB is excellent size for all your photos and videos Comment:
Good value and excellent for 2nd backup drive. Just use it and put it somewhere where it is safe. Buy it! |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/20/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:its green??? lol i dunnoheavy little buggers;p (ITS 2 TB)
Pros:cheapsemi fast2 tb... 60 bucks.. Comment:
bought 3 of these bad boys for external HD all worked great and they are actually pretty fast. for the price and using them for external uses you cant really go wrong.. 2 TB for 60 ish bucks.. common now;ppricematch |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/20/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:Cheap and quality
Pros:every HHD going to fail one day Comment:
this HDD have best stats for any Hdd u want to get also price to good to start building a new pc with Z68 any small SSD will be nice combination with this HHD. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/13/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:Not super fast
Pros:Cheap, lots of space, works well, reliable, quiet, low temperature, "green". Comment:
By one of the best drive manufacturers around, this drive is great for backup drives, storage drives, external drives in enclosures that don't have fans, or if you are looking for a quiet drive.Want something faster, louder, and hotter? Get a Black. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/09/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Comment:
when i very first ordered this drive, not what i wanted, but gots to have, and spending budget was able to go to black side on storage only drive. This is my second WD in virtually 8years; prior to 2002; WD was not great, overheated, and each other one failed. reason for my return, very good reviews, and selection vs. price vs. capacity; WD has far better options. not a VelociRaptor, but its for storage requirements. Obtaining a green drive, i was "gambling" but WD didn't disappoint, this boy is quiet, cool, pretty much motionless; and capacity was to fantastic to pass, spindle could not be 7200+ but as a storage only, not my concern, working with a WD Black 500GB as boot, caches are enormous, transfers on Sata III vs. Sata II is not only noticeable but quicker even on the green drive far better than my sata II seagate at 7200. Raptor would ideally be the way to go, but my budget, just couldn't do it, i'd really like to have 10k boot with 600GB, but if you can't swing it, you get the next ideal factor. WD has proven themselves as reliable; that is every little thing in my company. size vs. cost; this is the way to go. if you like me, don't be scared of green, green is excellent, its still reliable, just not as quickly as the rabbits. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/07/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:None that I can see.
Pros:Great for storage, which I think is the main purpose of having that drive. Comment:
I ran this drive without any problem for 2, maybe 3 months and then began to have Windows crash, random HD disappearance (not this drive specifically, but more aften than the others), difficulty at detecting the drive on BIOS start up. Well, this drive is slowly dieing. I've always had WD hard drive. One failed after 3 years of usage, the other are still functionning normally, just one also starting to show age sign (5 years I think, 250GB). |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/03/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:Not as fast as regular hdd but very good anywayNothing else so far
Pros:PriceLow noise Comment:
I did a benchmark and had around 111 mo/s in read , not to bad for a 5900 rpm.Perfect deal for the price ! |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/01/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:Speeds (intentional)Warranty (does anyone do 5 years anymore?)
Pros:Price/GBTemperature and volume for platters Comment:
Had an old, old Seagate die on me and I was waiting to upgrade once she left. Loved my WD10EADS and it's now taken a backseat as my external. Using 2xWD20EARS for a primary data and manual mirror drives with a separate root. Great drives, exactly what I wanted for a lower power, quieter, cooler rig. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/28/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:None.
Pros:Cheap, lots of space. Comment:
Bought two of these to put in an OWC Raid Enclosure to store my movies, and man, they rock! Yes, they only run at 5900RPM, but that is more then fast enough for storage, especially having them connected by firewire! Highly recommended. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/27/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:Speed.
Pros:Quality. Size. Reliable. Comment:
These are great storage drives. The toast of the town in that regard. Love these buy all the time. Can be somewhat slow at times. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/24/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:ok performance but not great
Pros:2 TBruns very cool and quietgood price point, better when on sale Comment:
Have 4 running in an unRAID server and have had no issues so far.I ran wdidle3 to stop the constant head parking.Perfect for media storage, probably wouldn't use them for anything else.Would likely buy again. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/24/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:None
Pros:Good sizeGood price Comment:
I picked a couple of these up for my NAS on sale.I didn't need anything faster, like a Caviar Black, because the NAS itself is the bottleneck. Good price for the capacity.I cannot comment on power usage or speed due to what I am using it for. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/24/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:Not a performance drive, but that's what the Caviar Black line is for.
Pros:2 TBCheapFairly silent Comment:
This HD is an excellent value when on sale. It's intended for storage, and fulfills that job very well. It runs cool and quietly.Now, just to dispel the notion: it works perfectly well with Windows XP. I don't understand what the big deal about running WD Align is: you can just format the disk from Windows as any other, and then run WD Align. Or you can just format from the WD utility. The alignment itself takes just seconds; the formatting part, obviously, many hours (it's 2TB, you know?). No issues whatsoever, no jumper setting, nada. Just read the instructions before installing it. It takes 5 minutes of your time. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/24/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:Needs special setup to deactivate the 8 seconds parking head feature and to be sure partitions are correctly aligned before using with windows xp.
Pros:Running quietly and very cool. Comment:
A really good drive to store plenty of data and this drive runs really cool. This drive is perfect for storing backups, videos, musics,... This review was modfied by poster @ 05-28-11 03:32 PM |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/21/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:Its noisy. I can hear it scratching.
Pros:Capacity. More then my old 500Gb Comment:
I like the capacity. However, this drive makes more noise then my hold 500gb. Don't be fooled by the `green' label |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/21/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:None
Pros:Good price for the capacity, reliable so far. Comment:
I have been using one of these for a year in my HTPC and have no issues with it so far. It has very decent transfer speeds. I recently picked up another one and installed them both in a Dlink DNS-323.The power savings I am to understand it pretty negligible though. These have been rock solid for me so far and I would buy again. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/19/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:Nothing
Pros:Solid drive. Excellent bang for my bucks Comment:
Bought these drives to use them with my new NAS. The drives are quiet and gave me no problems setting them up. I would recommend them, specially when on sale. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/18/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:Since its green its a little slower.
Pros:Works great Comment:
This is a good harddrive for the price. Gives you enough space for alot of stuff. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/17/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:Only 3.0Gb/s
Pros:Energy SavingLarge spaceQuiet Comment:
This is a amazing drive. Read the strengths! Definitely worth it. The difference between black and green versions are really nothing for the price. Planning to buy another one soon for a raid array. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/15/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:None
Pros:Lots of spaceLow cost Comment:
No complaints here. Work great so far. |
Always used WD green for storage, haven't had any problems yet.