Product Description

Western Digital HD Caviar GP2TB SATA III 7200rpm 32MB WD20EADS Components Hard Drives

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19398 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Western Digital OEM
• Model: WD20EADS
• Released on: 2009-03-02
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.97" h x 4.72" w x 7.09" l, 1.61 pounds
• Hard Disk: 2000GB

Manufacturer's Description
Available in capacities up to 2 TB, WD Caviar Green SATA hard drives reduce power consumption by up to 40% and offer best-in-class acoustics and operating temperature. Based on WD's exclusive GreenPower technology, these drives are designed to deliver power savings as the primary attribute. As hard drive capacities increase, the power required to run those drives increases as well. WD Caviar Green drives make it possible for energy-conscious customers to build systems with higher capacities and the right balance of system performance, ensured reliability, and energy conservation. They are ideal for PCs, external storage and other devices that require lower power consumption and cool, quiet operation

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Customer Reviews

A great drive, greenest but not the absolute fastest - also smaller WD green drives can be better value
This 2Tb Caviar Green drive comes with the same eco friendly [green] features as the rest of the range. Here the four of platters spin at an undisclosed speed, set somewhere between 5,400 and 7,200rpm - every drive is set to a unique optimised speed based on tests of its mechanics during manufacture. Other green features work to lower power requirements. The result is an excellent power draw of around 5W [compared to nearer 8W for a standard drive]. Performance is decent too, with a file read test of 85Mb/sec, and a write speed figure of 79MB/sec - perfectly decent for a drive with green ambitions [in fact reasonable for a non-eco gaming 'black' type hard drive]. For some reason this 2Tb drive seems to typically run a tad faster than the WD green 1Tb drive as well. However do check out the 1Tb and 1.5Tb WD green hard drives as they may offer better value per Gb than this drive on the day [prices fluctuate] - indeed price often looses this 2Tb drive a star as you seem to pay a premium for the largest consumer drive on the market. These OEM drives are supplied without fitting screws or cables, so you also need a StarTech 18 inch Serial ATA Data Cable and probably an LP4 Adapter for the PSU, plus some PC case screws [unless your PC case is a screwless design]. This drive was delivered well packed by Amazon, in a foam lined box within an outer box.

I use both this 2Tb and two of the 1.5Tb WD green drives and despite being a regular gamer these drives are fast enough for my purposes. More importantly Western Digital drives seem far more reliable than my budget Samsung 500Gb drives supplied with my Mesh PCs, two [of four] of which have failed in the last few months [repeated loud click of death - they limped on to recover files but the Windows install got shot prior to recovering/checkdisking the drive]. Speed tests demonstrated that these WD green drives also run significantly faster than the Samsungs in my PCs. Plus the WD green HDs offer great storage space for backups, media storage and games, run quieter, cooler albeit slower, with less draw on the PCs PSU [all likely to aid reliability]. Note though, apparently these drives are unsuitable for some RAID configurations as the 'green' mechanics can get reported as a drive failing.

Those gamers desperate for the last ounce of hard drive speed should probably look elsewhere though - probably [at the moment] to the 1.5Tb Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 with a read time of 99MB/sec and write speed of 85MB/sec or to one of the Western Digital's 1Tb 'black' range [neither of which have such 'green' credentials or offer 2Tb]. Note though that around 8% of all new hard drives fail in the first year after manufacture, so don't trust all your crucial data to one new hard drive - or to one PC [lightning strikes can wipe out all the internal/external hard drives in one go or if the PCs stolen all the hard drives are likely to go with it].

2TB .. what more is there to say?
At the time of writing - this is the highest capacity hard drive in existence that is available outside of the lab. A must for power users who need capacity in the highest density available. I use mine with an eSATA HDD dock so that I can use it between multiple PC's .. a low power UMPC for downloading 24/7.. and a htpc for running hd films from the drive.