Product ReviewsWD Caviar GP 1TB Hard Drive
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With 11 User Reviews
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 Rating: Review Date: 03/19/09  |
Cons: not plug and play, SATA cable not included.only 931GB useable, but that's normal sadly.
Pros: load's of hard drive space to put all my videos on.easy to plug in. much faster than other Hard drives I've had. |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/28/08 |
Cons: None
Pros: Quiet, reliable and low power consumption Comment:
Even though I have never had a WD drive failure since my first 20MB WD hard drive in the early 1990's, I decided to buy 2 of these to make my first RAID 1 drive setup, but I should have bought 3 of these babies to make a RAID 5 configuration instead. |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/10/08 |
Cons: none
Pros: SIZE,WD name WOW Comment:
I love this Western Digital Caviar 1TB 1000GB 5400-7200RPM 16MB 3.5IN sata 2 hard drive . It is very quite and with western digital quality it has to be a great drive. I would highly recommend this hard drive to anyone and I would buy it again. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/20/08 |
Cons: - only get this if the price is way below the other 1TB
Pros: - quiet- cool- 1 TB- energy efficient Comment:
I have always been a fan of WD. I got this to replace my Seagate 1TB because it started to make noise after a few weeks. |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/05/08 |
Cons: no
Pros: This drive was a breeze to install, fast and I would recommend it. Comment:
I got my new hard drive, and it is the best! i mean, i can install every program that i can get my hands on, and it wont slow down my computer or do anything to harm it! unlike my cheap 250 giga byte hard drive, when i install a program it would always start slowing down ma computer and cause a lot of problems! well, if u are planning to get a GOOD hard drive, this is the one for you guys! also, there is so much room untill u cannot fill the hard drive!!!!!!!! |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/02/08 |
Cons: Seek noise could be a bit quieter, but it's still very good with AAM at 128
Pros: Quiet! Requires very little cooling. Fast. Comment:
Although I have a gaming rig, it's built for silence. My old hard drive (250gb WD) was far too loud, so I bought this one as a compromise between speed and sound. The performance is great and it's the quietest 3.5" drive I have ever heard. I heartily recommend it to anyone with quiet in mind, although it is still beaten by some 2.5" drives (though not at the same performance level). |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/08/08 |
Cons: none, well maybe it's not the top of the class for speed but it's not supposed to be and it's not noticeable anyways.
Pros: QuietCoolHandles 1080p media easily Comment:
I bought this drive to replace a 500gb 7200.10 seagate drive that started failing on me (only had that drive for less than 6months and it had bad sector problems and clicking already). I have no problems with it's reported ~5400RPM speed, and it handled my transferring all the data of a seagate 320gb and 500gb drives.What impressed me was during the transfer, the drive stayed really cool. I didn't have a fan on it as it was just sitting on my desk plugged in via usb with a sata-usb adapter I have. The whole time during transfer, the drive temp never felt hot and the whole time, the drive never sounded loud or clicked like my seagates.It's a solid drive. I don't have it as a boot drive, just storage for media like tv shows and movies. No problems with playback and seeking, even with 1080p stuff. Really happy with WD again and looking forward to more from their GP stuff in the future! This review was modfied by poster @ 02-08-08 01:42 PM |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/20/08 |
Cons: ExpensiveSlow (5400rpm)Noisy
Pros: Spacious3 Yr Warranty Comment:
I bought this a while ago thinking it was a bargain .. yeah BAD IDEA. I have this for secondary storage as my CPU 3800+ begs for a faster HDD. I store my media on here (movies/music) because games, applications are simply open too slow ... every second counts in my world!As far as noice is concerned .. it's fairly loud. But I guess the size is to blame for that. I have a Thermaltake case and boy when this thing starts to spin with my heatsink one word: LOUD! |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/16/07 |
Cons: Unreliable. The last thing you want to feel about your hard drive is uncertainty.
Pros: Quiet, Large, and Powersmart this drive is potentially the perfect disk for a HTPC or NAS in your living room. Comment:
A great drive... if it works for you.Here is my story on why I have a sour opinion on this drive and Western Digital.I received and RMA'd 2 drives from NCIX. The drives would click-click-and-click when turned on, and the PC could not detect them.The third drive was finally detected in the BIOS. However, I was horrified to read that the BIOS reported the 1000 gig drive as being 0 gigs. Yes, zero.Actually, fdisk later confirmed that it was actually detected as a 32 megabyte disk. WD's customer support wasn't too helpful, and eventually google turned up methods of re-sizing the drive and removing this "Host Protected Area". While researching, I stumbled across at least one other user who had the same problem with this drive.In summary, the drive is working great now. I am very happy with it. NCIX was very good and helpful with the RMAs. Next time, I think I'll try buying the 1TB Seagate or Hitachi. Oh, I've also got to mention that NICX has the Hitachi on sale right now for $30 less than this WD. Especially since the 1TB Hitachi is faster, cheaper, and hopefully more dependable. |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/09/07 |
Cons: none found as of yet
Pros: very fast reliable and quite Comment:
great hard drive for someone for a htpc or server or even personal use I plan on gettin another one in a few months its great this time I'll buy it from ncix that way Im not waitin for it for sooo long lol but great buy over all hope everyone enjoys it as much as I have so far. |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/10/07 |
Cons: 5400 RPM
Pros: Very quiet!!!!!(Comparable to those 0dB SSDs)Runs really cool1TB of space Comment:
Very quiet and cool drive!!!!!! I can't even tell that my computer was on while using this drive. This is the perfect drive for HTPCs. Highly recommended for people that wants a cool and quiet PC. |
I bought this drive because my WD 250gbwas almost constantly full and I couldn't keep up with burning stuff off also I got $10 off during the sale. When I bought this drive I wasn't sure if it came with a SATA cable so I searched NCIX for one and was glad to see it on sale for 99Cents so I got one just incase, I'm glad I did. I plugged in the hard drive and my computer wouldn't even recognize it so I plugged in my 250gb drive in the same cable's and it worked fine. I was a bit nervous because I wasn't sure if sata2 worked with sata1 mobo. after calming down a bit I went to http://www.wdc.com and downloaded Lifeguard tools and WD Diagnostics. with both of the programs I got my hard drive up and running and copyed all my data files over to my new hard drive and now I'm enjoying more than 1100GB's on my PC.PS: I'm running win XP so vista might not have any problems.