Western Digital Caviar Green 2 TB Desktop Hard Drive WD20EARX

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 4 x 1 inches ; 1.1 pounds


• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)


• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.


• ASIN: B004VFJ9MK


• Item model number: WD20EARX
  

By : Western Digital
Price : $119.99
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Product Description

Size: two TB
From the Manufacturer
WD Caviar Green Hard Drives – Cool, quiet.
The WD Caviar Green desktop SATA hard drives give you the space you have to have to hold huge amounts of software program, photos and videos. These drives make it doable to create high capacity, cool and quiet systems, when delivering the ideal balance of program efficiency and power conservation.
Why you should certainly pick WD Caviar Green:
WD Caviar Green hard drives provide high capacity storage whilst using up to 40% less energy than regular 7200 RPM drives. In addition, these hard drives are quieter and cooler than conventional 7200 RPM drives.
Cool and quiet.WD GreenPower Technologies yields lower operating temperatures for elevated reliability and low acoustics excellent for ultra-quiet PCs and external drives.
Lowered energy consumption.WD's IntelliPower technologies delivers both important power savings and solid efficiency. Additionally, WD Caviar Green drives consume less existing for the duration of startup allowing lower peak loads on systems as they are booted.
Massive capacity.Store up to 2 TB of photographs, videos, music and files on a single drive.
Characteristics at a glance

• two TB of storage
• Lowered energy consumption
• SATA 6 Gb/s interface
• WD GreenPower Technologies
• two-year restricted warranty

Best for:

• Adding lots of storage in desktop PCs or external drives and NAS devices
• Adding extra storage space for photos, videos and music
• Environmentally-conscious individuals seeking decreased energy consumption

Attributes:
SATA six Gb/s interface - Twice the interface speed with backwards compatibility to legacy SATA standards.
NoTouch ramp load technologies - The recording head never touches the disk media making certain considerably much less put on to the recording head and media as nicely as much better drive protection in transit.
IntelliSeek - Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise and vibration.

Advanced Format (AF) - Technologies becoming adopted by WD and other drive manufacturers to continue developing challenging drive capacities.
New drives featuring AF are optimized for operation with Windows 7, Windows Vista and Mac OS X Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard. For older operating systems such as Windows XP, users ought to run the cost-free WD Align software utility to realize the full efficiency of the drive.
Desktop / Customer RAID environments - WD Caviar Green Challenging Drives are tested and recommended for use in consumer-kind RAID applications. (RAID- / RAID-1)
Enterprise Essential RAID Environments – WD Caviar Green Difficult Drives are not suggested for and are not warranted for use in RAID environments utilizing Enterprise HBAs and/or expanders and in multi-bay chassis, as they are not designed for, nor tested in, these distinct types of RAID applications. For all Business Vital RAID applications, please look at WD's Enterprise Hard Drives that are specifically created with RAID-precise, time-restricted error recovery (TLER), are tested extensively in 24x7 RAID applications, and incorporate functions like enhanced RAFF technologies and thermal extended burn-in testing.
Leading the way to green tough drives - WD led the industry in developing a new category of tough drives that use less energy and support lower the world's energy demands one particular laptop or computer user at a time. These drives consume significantly much less energy than typical drives spinning at 7200 RPM. All WD Caviar Green drives are lead and halogen totally free, resulting in less pollutants having into our atmosphere. Beyond the product level, WD's green initiative goes even additional focusing on recycling and improving the cleanliness of the air, water and land in the places surrounding WD facilities.
Upgrading your drive is quick - WD Acronis TrueImage, obtainable as a no cost download on the WD Support webpage, enables you to copy all your information to a new drive so you do not have to reinstall your operating method to get all the rewards of a new drive. Note: Bare drive does not involve any cables or mounting hardware.
The WD benefit - WD puts our items via substantial Functional Integrity Testing (F.I.T.) prior to any product launch. On typical, every single new product goes via 600,000 hours of testing. WD also has a detailed Understanding Base with far more than 1,000 beneficial articles. You can also call toll-totally free help 7 days per week in the U.S. and Canada. See the WD Help internet site for complete specifics.

WD-certified packaging - All WD drives bought from Amazon.com are shipped in WD-certified challenging drive packaging. It is created and fully tested to deliver WD products with the highest of safety whilst in transit. With WD-certified packaging, you can rest assured that your WD tricky drive will arrive safely, totally protected, non-descript, very easy-open package.
CompatibilityWorks with Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000, Mac and Linux operating systems.
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Value and reliabilityfor every day computing.
Cool, quiet.
Maximum performancefor power computing.
The fastest SATA tough driveon the planet.
80 GB – 1 TB
320 GB – 3 TB
500 GB – two TB
150 GB – 600 GB

Available in capacities up to 3TB, WD Caviar Green SATA hard drives lower power consumption by up to 40% and give best-in-class acoustics and operating temperature. Based on WD's exclusive GreenPower technologies, these drives are designed to deliver power savings as the main attribute. As difficult drive capacities boost, the energy essential to run those drives increases as well. WD Caviar Green drives make it potential for power-conscious buyers to create systems with higher capacities and the right balance of method performance, ensured reliability, and power conservation. They are excellent for PCs, external storage and other devices that call for lower power consumption and cool, quiet operation.

 

Western Digital Caviar Green 2 TB Desktop Hard Drive WD20EARX

 

Technical Details

• Ships in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging


• IntelliSeek - Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise, and vibration.


• And caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance.


• And offer best-in-class acoustics and operating temperature and 3rd generation SATA interface.


• WD Caviar Green hard drives reduce power consumption by up to 40%.


• IntelliPower - A fine-tuned balance of spin speed, transfer rate.

Client Critiques

BACKGROUND:
Here's a small background on my WD drive experience, to offer context for the review. For my particular usage and review of this precise item, hop additional down.
My prior experience with other WD drives have been anyplace among 100 and 500gb drives, typically the WD Caviar Black or Caviar Blue series which are stout (Black becoming preferred). To date I nonetheless use a 250gb Black model which is just about 10 years old and has been in rather harsh circumstances, ranging from -130 Fahrenheit sustained ambient temperatures, and has been submitted to various shocks and shaking about even though in use. Needless to say, it's a confirmed performer and a incredibly solid platform.
Enter the Green drive era.
The WD Green drives boast lower operating temperatures and of getting quieter, which they accomplish by on-the-fly adjustment of the RPM of the spindles, which uses less energy and produces less heat or noise in the procedure. Essentially these execute no quicker than 5400rpm (some have recommended 5900), rather than 7200rpm, and they will cycle off or go into a low energy state at different instances.
Some could possibly wonder why such a massive drive with "environmental" functions, can be so affordable compared to the Blue or Black series drives of the similar (or much less) size. Fundamentally it boils down to reliability. Do your study on the WD Green drives on a lot of tech sites and you will discover that the initial generation units had lots of difficulties for the reason that of their "green" capabilities. For instance, my experience below
This is my 4th WD Green drive of significant capacity, the preceding 3 becoming 1TB units and very first generation. Two of the previous three are also dead, I could add. These 3 previous drives had been bought back in 2010. The 1st 1 to die, did so within about a week of use.
It started out having issues with it not wanting to come out of its powered-down mode, and shortly thereafter I started hearing the deadly "click.... click..." noise, indicating a head crash. The drive was unusable, and I later verified that the heads did in reality have a physical failure. I took the drive apart and identified that when going into a low-energy cycle the heads parked themselves as well harshly or somehow went as well far past the head park zone, so a variety of of them got caught on the plastic locking lane. As soon as the arm tried landing on the platters, it ripped quite a few of the heads off and scratched the platters.
The other drive, it's replacement and exact same exact model, died inside about a month. Not a head crash, but was having intermittent spindle problems with not wanting to correctly spin.
The third drive I've had ever since, and haven't had any main difficulties with it, but on a couple of occasions in the past year it has randomly powered down of its own accord (challenging power down), and I lost some data.
HDD RPM SPEED 5400 or 7200:
If you are wondering which is greater: 5400 or 7200, here's a little tidbit of info: The 5400 models spin slower, have a higher latency (searching for around the drive), but transfer more information general. The 7200 models spin faster, have lower latency (can bounce about the drive more quickly), but deliver less information per transfer.
What this implies is, if you have a drive as your primary "system" drive, which will be doing frequent drive access and bouncing all more than the spot, carrying out perform with numerous smaller files, then you'll want a drive with lower latency such as the 7200. On the other hand, if you just have a sizeable storage drive for storing quite a few big files, for example movies or other significant files, then a 5400 drive would be ideal.
Appear at it this way, say you have a lot of smaller piles of leaves in your yard, and you need to have them bagged. If your bagger was a 7200, it could go from 1 pile to the next a lot faster than a 5400 could, but its performance positive aspects will be perfect with smaller piles. A 5400 would function best with fewer much bigger piles.
SPEED SUGGESTION:
If you happen to be concerned about overall speed and want this drive, as soon as you have the majority of your files in place, run a superior defrag tool every single now and then to aid preserve all the files in sequence. This prevents the drive from having to bounce around so substantially. Also, WD provides a file alignment tool which you can use. They recommend making use of it once you have anything setup the way you want it. The link for this tool is on their site, and on the label of the drive.
MY USAGE OF THIS DRIVE:
The WD20EARX has so far, (a week into points), been very good to me. If you happen to be curious about model designations, here's a couple of examples to aid you though you search for your drive:
EARX - The SATA 6gb/sec (600MB/sec) interface (backwards compatible with slower SATA slots)
EARS - The SATA 1.5gb/sec (150MB/sec) interface
I am working with this as each a boot drive and a information drive, a thing I do not in most cases do but for my use I want only one particular drive in the system. It really is going to store about 1.5tb of information, mostly in only a couple of files which are mostly 8-10gb in size each. Latency wasn't a concern for me, so the slower Green drive did not bother me. Boot occasions and program loading has truly been surprisingly fast, faster than my other Green drive.
Method: Shuttle XPC
Motherboard: SN95G5 - 2.6ghz Athlon64 - 2gb ddr2 ram
Interface: SATA 1.5gb (150MB/sec)
OS: Windows XP Pro SP3
Boot Speed: ~10 seconds (The moment POST ends till I have a working desktop)
From the time the bootloader engages until the time I am at a working desktop, it really is about 10 seconds. Shockingly very good efficiency for a green drive. Your encounter might possibly vary.
PROS:
Substantial capacity, low price tag thanks to Amazon Prime
Western Digital has a very good reputation and warranty
This newer generation green drive seems to be substantially much better than the prior, such as a redesigned PCB and energy traces
Full backwards compatibility with older SATA interfaces
Consists of a jumper spot in case you have to have to manually set SATA speed or go into technicians mode
Lower energy consumption, temperatures and sound signature, if that matters to you
CONS:
Nonetheless worried about how the last handful of Green drives went
OTHER THOUGHTS:
My past experience tends to make me uncomfortable with the Green drive movement, but I am hoping they've worked out the kinks in this new redesign and will post any updates..
Be aware that Windows XP will not be able to use a single partition larger than 2tb. Windows Vista or 7 will manage larger than 2tb at a time

I have a total of seven of these drives among six on a raid array on one Computer and a single as a data drive (non raid) in one other Pc.
They are slower at RPM speed than some other drives, at 5400 RPM so if you are a person who "wants" a 7200 RPM drive then you do not want this.
They are yet the Cheapest, MOST Reputable Low cost drive out there. In contrast to some brands who will sell you a 5400rpm drive for this, or the various drawbacks from externals, this drive is inexpensive, not annoying in its "green" power management (or needing to have it shut off) and its fast, I get fine speed in my 6gb/sec Sata3 port, and general assume its wonderful that for this cost, I get a drive with a 3 year warranty, reasonably fast transfer rates regardless of a lower RPM (RPM is not almost everything apparently) and its a Western Digital (and not lower on high quality) for the value.
Western Digital have been trustworthy drives for me, for many years. I have some going back as far as 8 years old and nevertheless operating (that does not mean one particular has never ever died) but it is not standard. It's significantly more common that the storage size becomes as well tiny for me and gets it shelved than the drive fails.
I am optimistic by the early performance of these Caviar Greens that I will continue to use these for a 3tb drive. For 2tb drives I choose the Caviar Black (which is not produced in 3tb size). I was apprehensive to go to an additional brand, so chose WD's lower line rather than risk a brand who has not performed well for me for years.
Five stars are for the value, and the fact it delivers. I would like to see a 7200rpm 3tb from WD someday come about, such as a Caviar Black 3tb, but until they do, I am happy to decide to buy these, in spite of I typically get the Blacks (I do want bigger than 2tb occasionally) or like for my raid array which runs 6 3tb caviar greens, wanted the array to be bigger then six 2tb blacks would realize.
Invest in this drive with a clean conscience, it will perform for you, and function properly. I never ever have had a DOA from WD, I am certain it happens, but I have 6 pcs, and for that to by no means have occurred, is outstanding.
WD! Caviar! and this time GREEN ain't that bad.
In fact for its value, you can't beat it.

 

Western Digital Caviar Green 2 TB Desktop Hard Drive WD20EARX

 

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