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Western Digital Caviar GreenPower 1TB SATA Hard Drive - 5400 RPM, 16MB | List Price: $279.99
Discount Price: $127.77
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Platform: Windows
Brand: Western Digital
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: 3 years limited warranty
Features: - IntelliPower: A fine-tuned balance of spin speed, transfer rate and caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance.
- IntelliSeek: Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise and vibration.
- IntelliPark: Delivers lower power consumption by automatically unloading the heads during idle to reduce aerodynamic drag.
- Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR), to achieve even greater areal density.
- StableTrac: The motor shaft is secured at both ends to reduce system-induced vibration and stabilize platters for accurate tracking, during read and write operations.
Western Digital 1TB Internal Green [Posted on 2008-09-21]
Bought two of these drive, currently have one installed for the extra backup drive , will swap the main drive later.
So far, the installation was simple for my Dell Dimension 9150. Upgraded from a 250GB HDD to this 1T HDD. The Dell comes with a easy bracket harness without needing screws. Just switch drives and use the existing SATA cables, turn on the computer, format the HDD and it's done. Installation was approximately less than 15 minutes!!
Using it as a second harddrive mainly for backups. Supposedly it's "green" meaning that the drive's software or function will determine if it needs to spin up to 7200rpm from the norm of 5400rpm.
If you're looking for a "speed demon", this drive is not for you. If you want a spacious hard drive, this may be it!
Also, it's very QUIET!!
It's taking awhile from copying files from the main drive to this backup drive
It's taking a while to copy all the files from the main drive to the backup drive. For example, my iTunes folder is ~1.5G and it's half done but it's already been almost ~2 hours! Auggh! The copy time isn't good!
But at least the HDD's were on sale for $160 excl. tax so it's relatively affordable.
This is the last backup hardware I'll buy since my Dell is ~3yrs old so a new computer will be next. At least this will keep my satisfied with my current computer needs!
So it's not fast considering the default speed of 5400rpm instead of 7400rpm (Hmmm... maybe I do need the speed!) but at least it spacious and affordable!
Great drive soo far [Posted on 2008-10-14]
This drive is running well so far, I use it as a storage drive so I don't know much about its performance, I have just one complain the seller J&R are horrible with packaging I never seen anyone package a hard drive like that and I hope I never see anyone do that again
Flawless install and runs quiter and cooler... [Posted on 2008-11-05]
Flawless install... been running for about two weeks in my HP ex470 Home Server with out powering down. Very quite, no access delays noticed and speed is as fast as other 1TB drives. One items to note on the temperature monitoring this drive runs about -12 degrees F. cooler consistently, And when all of the drives are working (non-Green) harder there is a greater span in temperatures. This will makes big difference as you start stacking more drives together with minimum airflow in servers and PC. I plan to replace my other drives with this green drive.
Nice Drive for the Drobo [Posted on 2008-11-24]
I got 2 of these to use in the Drobo. I don't know how Green it is, but I wanted reliable drives and Western Digital drives are that. I can hear them in the Drobo being cooled so don't know if the Drobo is sensitive or the Drive actually needs it. Either way, they are fine.
One of my favorites [Posted on 2008-11-28]
This is my favorite STORAGE drive. It runs quiet and cool and it is relatively inexpensive. I have bought several, with the first one being for my TiVoHD and it's been working great for almost a year now. However, I would not use this drive as a main drive for someone who wants great performance. NOTE: Newer models of this drive use 3 platters instead of 4 and are faster and even more efficient. These drives run at 5400 RPM.
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