Western Digital Caviar Green 1 TB SATA III Intellipower 64 MB Cache Bulk/OEM 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive Desktop Hard Drive - WD10EARX

Manufacturer : Western Digital Model : WD10EARX ASIN : B0053YKMGA Price : 74.99$ Last Price : 69.54$(Discount 7.26763568475796% See Special Offers Product Description Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EARX 1 TB Internal Hard Drive WD10EARX Hard Drives - Internal Most Helpful Customer Reviews 38 of 41 people found the following review helpful: Great storage drive, but decreased speed I have tons of WD drives and they've been around for awhile (including two 2tb 'green' drives), so I decided to give this one a chance even with the half/half ratings it had. This drive is great! Popped it into my esata dock, turned it on, and windows disk management saw it instantly, as the full ~2.7tb. Initialized it, making sure to pick GPT, and then formatted it. Windows saw the whole partition, no fuss. To test the drive, I did a low level format, then a disk check. When both came back fine, I copied as many files as I could fit on the drive, and then did another disk check. Came back fine again, so I ran DiskMark to see what speeds I was getting. When the drive was almost full (~3gb free), I was averaging around 30-40MBps. after I reformatted and ran the test again, I averaged ~60MBps. Compare this to a smaller hard drive and you will see that this is considerably slower. (I just ran DiskMark on a full WD 500GB drive that's about 5 years old, and it averaged 80MBps) However, 30MBps is plenty of speed to stream movies, which is what I'm using it for. This drive won't make the best boot drive, but it makes a great archival one. As I've only owned it for about a week now, I can't comment on long term reliability, but I will update if anything happens. For now, I do recommend this drive. 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful: Need Space - Perfect, need speed too, add a SSD...    This is a reliable, quite, cool running, LARGE SATA III HD. I used this drive for WMC (Windows Media Center) PVR. I needed a lot of hard drive space but needed it to stay really cool and quite in a small case. If you want speed (like I did) put a small SSD drive in your system for the operating system, then use the WD Green drive for storage space. Something to consider: The 2.5 ad 3TB WD Green drives use a little bit more wattage (heat) and have a little faster transfer rate. Download the spec sheet from Western Digital for more information on this. Just in case you're trying to do the same thing, I have listed my recently built media center parts list. My system build (works great)(Photo's included) -- SilverStone Aluminum/Steel Micro ATX HTPC Computer Case GD05B (Black) -- Gigabyte AMD GA-A75M-UD2H (rev 1.0) Mother board -- AMD A8-3850 APU with AMD Radeon 6550 HD Graphics 2.9GHz Socket FM1 100W Quad-Core -- Kingston Technology HyperX 8 GB (2x4 GB Modules) 1600 MHz DDR3 Dual Channel Kit (PC3 12800) -- OCZ Agility 2 OCZSSD2-2AGTE60G 2.5" 60GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive -- Western Digital Caviar Green 2 TB SATA III Hard Drive - WD20EARX -- Pioneer Internal 12x Blu-ray Disc/DVD/CD Writer BDR-206DBK -- AmuletDevices remote control and IR Receiver -- Antec (Neo HE650)(NeoPower 650) 650 Watt Power Supply -- IOGEAR Multimedia Keyboard with Laser Trackball 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful: Very good performance!    This review is from: Western Digital Caviar Green 1 TB SATA III Intellipower 64 MB Cache Bulk/OEM 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive Desktop Hard Drive - WD10EARX (Personal Computers) It's being working nice in my new system, very silent. Short delay when waking up from sleep state. Good enough for normal use systems. Most Recent Customer Reviews Great Drive...but hear this... Due to the flooding in Thailand, which affects all HDDs except Samsungs, these drives are soon going to be selling for $30+ dollars above MSRP...on existing stock! by Kenneth J. Connor reclamo señores de amazon saludos no entiendo por que esta orden no se ha enviado si en el banco me dicen que autorizaron la compra by edcanelon Do Not Buy These Drives - lots of corrupt read errors I store numerous MP3s on double sets of external drives. After upgrading to USB 3.0, I purchased 2 of these WD 2.0TB drives, and a pair of 1.5TB WD drives. by P. Silberg Seamless installation and operation I installed this drive into my HP Desktop a few weeks ago and it's been working like a charm ever since. by Milarepa LARGE CAPACITY!!! It is a large hard drive, very good performance and large storage capacity, and very quiet when I install something does not lessen notice beyond capacity, but if you need another... by JMC Absolutely the right drives for my NAS Some reviews talked about compatibility problems so I checked the Netgear forum for these Caviar drives working with their Ready NAS Ultra 2 plus and looked ok. by Bru Huf Absolutely no problems I currently have 13 of the 2TB models, and 8 of the 3TB models in my home server. Absolutely no problems from any of them. by Ben Q. I do love WD drives, but this was a pain in Linux I bought these drives for a computer that will primarily be used as a server (kept on long hours.) I've had two problems working with it in Linux. by HGR The SATA III interface is exactly what this drive needed! This WD20EARX drive is GREAT! I have a couple dozen of the WD20EARS (SATA II) drives in several server boxes, and they all work fine, except that their average throughput is... by The Legal Beagle RELIABILITY CONCERNS I'm a computer technician who manages numerous client storage arrays. I purchased 6 (six) of the Western Digital WD20EARS drives in April 2011 to fill one array (previous version... by BigMike

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