Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
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 Rating: Review Date: 05/12/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:none so far
Pros:Lots of space, cheap. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/11/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:None.
Pros:2TBs! Not super expensive! Comment:
Awesome drives. Nothing negative to say. Just bought my third. Even though they're "green," they still spin at 7500RPM. I don't know what makes them greener than any other 7500RPM 3.5" drives? But they're definitely not noticeably slow. (At least, for a media storage drive--OS? Couldn't tell you.) |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/11/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:none
Pros:fast and data efficiency reliable Comment:
able to do the work and it saves a lot of power. very green |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/09/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:-Constant Head Parking-Advance Formatting-5400rpm
Pros:-2 TB of storage-64 MB of cache-Western Digital Comment:
Its a green drive and not meant for performance but when your competitors are offering 5900rpm and SATA3, you should do the same. This drive was a drag to setup, had to disable the 8secs head parking and then use the WD align software to make it work right. It is a WD however and should be reliable which is the most important. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/05/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:It's not a 7200 rpm drive but then again it is a 'green' power saver drive
Pros:Excellent price per storage ratioWestern Digital known reliability Comment:
I had 3 1.5tb WD drives and upgraded to the new Western Digital 2TB when they were on sale.I'm a photographer and video editor and these drives are excellent for storage backup and archiving. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/05/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:none so far
Pros:Price Comment:
Bought this drive to store some backups; so far so good ! |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/04/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:Speed.... compared to other hard drives
Pros:2TB- good for storageLess power consumption Comment:
I have mine for a 1 year and it is still working. However, i have the an XP OS... so it was annoying to use Advanced Format technology.The price for this hard drive is cheap and it works really well for storage but for others... may not as good. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/04/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:- Speed
Pros:- Less power consumption- Runs cool- Supports 4K sector formatting Comment:
Great bang for your buck when looking for cheap, inexpensive, reliable drive. Great for a eco-friendly minded user. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/03/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:none
Pros:Very good for the price, perfect for freenas ! Comment:
i have about 16 of these, all good, none of them was defective. I would recommend these to anyone ! |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/30/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:-Slower than most Hard Drives
Pros:-Great for storage Comment:
Awesome for storing media (TV Shows/Movie's/etc.)Kind of disappointed though, got it, than went on sale right after... very disappointed with that. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/26/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:Slower than caviar black
Pros:Perfect for video, picture and music storage Comment:
It's slower than caviar black but for storage, it's perfect because you don't need fast red and write speeds for that. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/23/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons: As expected with a power saving hard drive, the performance is lacking when compared to 7200rpm drives.
Pros:Large capacity, formats to 1.81TB-Very quiet, I can't hear it at all -64MB of cache, which is great for multitaskers Comment:
Here are my HD Tune 2.55 results on this HD.Access Time = 19.2msBurst Rate = 149.7MB/sCPU Usage = -1.0%Average transfer rate = 84.8MB/sMinimum transfer rate = 48.3MB/sMaximum transfer rate = 119.8MB/s |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/19/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:Slow spinup times
Pros:QuietFast read/write times for a hard drive Comment:
So far no problems. It's been quiet, reads/writes pretty fast and has never given me any problems. Would definitely recommend this as it's price of $60 is fantastic. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/18/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:-none-
Pros:Cheap $/GBRun silenceMassive Storage Comment:
I've purchase 2 of these bada$$ Western 2TB HDD,and there really great for Storage or ideal for Server backup :D!!! |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/18/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:performance
Pros:Size, price Comment:
This is a big jump from a black edition drive as far as performance goes. I use it in my HTPC and it is quiet and dependable.I purchased a Bluray burner a few months prior before realizing that there is limited software to move BR from dual layer to single layer. Backing up BR is quite expensive as bluk disks are almost as much as a discounted film. I decided to ISO my BR disks until the price comes down on the dual layer BR disks. This drive was the answer.Another reviewer said that this drive wasn't good for an OS. I'm not sure why, I've been running Win 7 on it without issue. It is definately not a high performance drive, but I haven't had any complaints about it other than that. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/18/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:Speed, but you should know that
Pros:Capacity, obviouslyPrice Comment:
Obviously you don't want to buy this drive for anything besides storage as it is a green drive. It is pretty slow and will load your OS slowly if you put it on it. It's not outrageously slow though, perfectly adequate for many things.It can be found for like $70 and maybe less. It's the best option for cheap storage, as far as I can tell. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/16/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:- Extremly poor performance- Cycle Will kill your harddrive way faster
Pros:+ 2TB+ ECO friendly Comment:
Im kind of disapointed with this hard drive , I installed an OS on it Witch I DO NOT RECOMMAND to anyone , USE this drive only for storage, Otherwise i dint encounter any problem, So far so good |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/13/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:- May want to disable AP (4k)- No go for RAID5
Pros:- Cheap- Nice cache size Comment:
This is a nice cheap drive when in special, the cache size is superior to its competitors which makes it slightly faster, but be careful, you might want to disable the Advanced Paritionning (4k sectors) and since you can't disable the TLER it's a no-go for RAID5 controllers that can't manage TLER drives. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/12/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:None.
Pros:Quite and running cool (never exceeded 32 degrees Celsius). Comment:
Inexpensive and lots of storage space, reminds me of my first 20MB IBM HDD costing me a couple of thousand dollars, works very well as secondary storage. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/12/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:-access time can be annoyingly slow
Pros:-Great for RAID array storage medium-Low temperature Comment:
Great HDD for mass storage array. I have a couple 4TB RAID 0 array's with these. Haven't had a single issue with them.Cant beat the price for this reliable HDD. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/11/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:None
Pros:CoolQuietSolid performance Comment:
Bought 2 of these units when it was on sale and I'm very pleased with them. The hd runs perfectly out of the box with no problem. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/07/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:Needs jumper for older operating systems.
Pros:Runs cool and quiet. Comment:
Using this in my WHS, runs cool, quiet and is very economical! |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/06/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:The drive is rather slow
Pros:Large space for affordable price. Low power consumption and noise. Comment:
Large space for affordable price. Cool, quiet drive. Great for backup or external drives. Performance is rather slow, so not well suited for usage as a system/application drive. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/05/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:Trying to Raid 0 with these Volumes, Found out you cant.(not the Drive fault)
Pros:Lots of space and its cheap ! yay Comment:
** These will not Raid0 or Stripe0 together because windows 7 doesn't support an array bigger than 2 TB**WISH I KNEW THAT BEFORE I PURCHASED !It does say the C/greens can raid 0,1 (according to WD website)I have no experience with RAID setups, I wanted to start out with something huge, Only because they were CHEAP ! thinking I could get speed and volume. The fact no one needs that much space is illrelevant. :)Someone posted in a forum:'Yes, there is a limited partition size of 2TB on Master Boot Record disks. If you want to create a partition larger than 2TB, you can convert the disk to GPT disk, which extends the limitation to a very large capacity'I tried this but seeings how windows wont support this to my knowledge It didn't work and i'm S.O.L (the idea was to replace my SSD because I ran out of space and wanted to keep decent speeds. raptor drives are too expensive. I have since then replaced my order with C/Blacks 1Tb's Sata6Gb and NCIX waved shipping. so im happy. but a pain in the butt in the mean time.They work but not for my purpose. RMA department said they have had alot of people callin about this. and yet no warning of any kind.. Im glad they know about it.. its US who need to know. 4 stars for the product 2 stars for NCIX for this Scenario.. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/02/11 |
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
Cons:SARTA2 I guess, but not much diffrence (Barely right?)
Pros:Good large space. Great bang for your buck! Comment:
I got this with another SATA3 HDD 1TBAlot of space, quiet. No complaints. Great price! |
got several so far and they are all working great,