Western Digital 1 TB Caviar Green SATA Intellipower 64 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive WD10EARS
- WD Caviar Green hard drives reduce power consumption by up to 40% and offer best-in-class acoustics and operating temperature.
- A fine-tuned balance of spin speed (5400 RPM), 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.
- 1 TB capacity holds up to 200,000 digital photos, 250,000 MP3 files, and 120 hours of HD video.
Product Description
WD Advanced Format technology increases media format efficiency, thus enabling larger drive capacities. WD Advanced Format drives are specifically optimized for Mac and the latest Windows operating systems such as Windows Vista and Windows 7. WD Advanced Format drives work with legacy operating systems such as Windows XP but require the use of the free WD Align software available on www.wdc.com/advformat. Available in capacities up to 2 TB, WD Caviar® Green™ … More >>
Source Western Digital 1 TB Caviar Green SATA Intellipower 64 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive WD10EARS
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These drives are slow, and their firmware is defective. I could not use these disks as startup disks on my Mac Pro. My recommendation: Stay away from Western Digital disk drives!
Rating: 1 / 5
Bought it through eCost. Wasn’t compatible with Vista 64, so I called them up, they said I have to talk to WD directly. WD washed their hands quickly saying it’s eCost’s fault. In the meantime i tried the disk in an XP machine, no luck either – so it was bad. Couldn’t return it, couldn’t replace it. I will never buy anything from eCost or from Western Digital again. As I am concerned, they don’t exist any more.
Rating: 1 / 5
DO NOT BUY THIS DRIVE – GARBAGE. WE PURCHASED 3 OF THESE. 2 ARE DEAD AND THE 1 RUNNING IS RUNNING HOT.
THESE DRIVES ARE NOT DESIGNED FOR WINDOWS XP — THEY RUN THE “NEW” 4KB PHYSICAL SECTOR JUNK. SUPPOSED TO “FASTER” – YEAH, RIGHT. WE PURCHASED A HITACHI 1 TB FROM ANAZON AND IT RUNS JUST A FAST AS THIS PIECE OF JUNK. WESTERN DIGITAL IS IN BED WITH MICROSOFT – DESIGNED DRIVES TO WORK ONLY ON WINDOWS 7 (ANOTHER PIECE OF GARBAGE OF AN OS). COMPANIES SHOULD MAKE DRIVES TO WORK ON THE MAJORITY OF THE WORLD’S COMPUTERS – NOT THE MINORITY – AND WINDOWS 7 RUNS (AT THIS WRITING) ON 23 PER CENT OF WORLD’S COMPUTER VS. XP’S 43 PER CENT). WILL NEVER PURCHASE ANOTHER WESTERN DIGITAL PRODUCT AGAIN. WE HAVE TAKEN THEM OFF OUR PURCHASING ORDERS. IF YOU WANT THIS JUNK TO RUN ON WINDOWS XP YOU WILL NEED TO REPROGRAM THE DISK THROUGH SETUP, OR MANUALLY CAP JUMPERS 7 AND 8 IN ORDER FOR YOUR XP MACHINE TO “SEE” IT. PIECE OF JUNK
WESTERN DIGITAL IS A MICROSOFT PUPPET.
THE WJ GROUP (DANXO)
Rating: 1 / 5
Try this link and the discussion that follows … (…) Seems Amazon removed my link… Makes this a more like a high performance 5200rpm drive, enhanced speed only because of increased density on the platters. I had to give a rating to give a review… I gave it a 5 for what it is attempting to do, but a 2 for not explaining on it’s website what it is attempting to do and not giving rotational speeds.
Rating: 3 / 5
This may be a great drive but it will not work properly in a Directv HR2X HD-DVR. It will cause all kinds of Freezing issues. I had no problems installing this unit in to an Antec MX1 enclosure and no problems connecting it to the DVR. It recognized it, formatted it and seemed to work ok. After the DVR was up and running every minute or two I had issues with the dvr locking up for 20-40 seconds constantly.
Unfortunately, I found out the EADS series works much better. So I have returned this unit and purchased the WD20EADS drive.
You can read more at dbs talk.
Rating: 1 / 5