| | |  | Water Resistant | Home » » » » » Wd Caviar Green 1Tb 64Mb | | | | | | | 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™ 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. | | | Features: | |
• WD Caviar Green hard drives reduce power consumption by up to 40% and offer best-in-class acoustics and operating temperature.
• IntelliPower - A fine-tuned balance of spin speed, transfer rate and caching algorithms designed to deliver.
• 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.
• Ships in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 5.79 inches | | Product Width:
| 4.02 inches | | Product Height:
| 1.02 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.32 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.5 inches | | Package Height:
| 2.8 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.65 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
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571 of 590 found the following review helpful:
 Some advances for the popular Western Digital Caviar Green drives, but XP users approach with cautionFeb 11, 2010
By Snap, Crackle and Pop
THE QUICK TAKE: The WD10EARS is a new (shipping 12-2009) version of Western Digital's popular and successful WDxxEADS Caviar Green series of drives. It's a very good drive, but may need more thought than usual about whether it's the right drive for you.
The Caviar Green drives offer low power consumption, low noise and moderate operating temperatures, while still maintaining performace good enough for many applications, such as networked storage. This new WDxxEARS series uses more dense 500GB platters - so a 1TB drive has just two platters, and several drives up to 2TB are available. The new models have 64MB of cache.
ADVANCED FORMAT: There's another change as well. WD is using this series to transition to 4KB sectors on the hard drive; they call it WD Advanced Format technology. The long-term goal is to improve the efficiency of large hard drives, but as a transitional move they still trying to accomodate the 512B sectors that Windows XP uses. So the drive emulates that, using 512B logical sectors. However, they still claim that Advanced Format provides an improvement in burst speeds.
ISSUES WITH XP: While that sounds like all good news, it turns out that many XP users need to use the WD Align software to setup the drive, which can be time consuming and create some potential issues in formatting and partitioning the drive, and in finding tools to do that.
The exception is if you are using a single partition for a clean install - then there is an option to set a jumper on the drive before installing. WD has a table which summarizes installation at their "Advanced Format Hard Drive Download Utility" web page - anyone buying this drive should be sure to review that page.
So less technical users may want to believe WD when they say "WD Advanced Format drives are specifically optimized for Mac and the latest Windows operating systems such as Windows Vista and Windows 7." This drive might not a good choice for some XP users - you'll be fine with the tried and true EADS series.
VISTA AND WINDOWS 7: Further, cloning and partitioning tools might present issues with Windows Vista and Windows 7 as well. You can read more about the AF transition at the WD web page mentioned above in the AnandTech article, "Western Digital's Advanced Format: The 4K Sector Transition Begins." They note that as of 12-2009 there might not be any commercially available cloning and imaging tools that would work with these drives.
LINUX AND MAC: The Anandtech article also states that current versions of Linux and Mac OS X are not affected by issues with Advanced Format, but discussions online suggest that Linux users seem to face some complexities on how to best partition and format to avoid mis-alignment.
OTHER INFO: The WD site has a good whitepaper on Advanced Format. Tom's Hardware has a good discussion about the earlier EADS series in an article entitled "Caviar Green, WD10EADS, And 1 TB," with power and performance info; and some interesting points if you Google "Pros And Cons Of Going Green."
39 of 40 found the following review helpful:
Nice Mainstream UpgradeFeb 16, 2010
By Schwartz
I purchased this drive to replace the drive in my Wife's computer that was running out of space. The PC was running Windows 7 and the drive being replaced was a WD3200KS 7200RPM drive.
PC the drive went into: Stock Intel Q6600, Gigabyte GA-EP45-D3SL, 8GB DDR2, and a ATI HD4870.
The Windows install wasn't that old and I didn't really want to mess with getting her all her stuff back so I used a Clonezilla Live CD to clone the old drive to the new one. I then booted straight into Windows 7 off the new drive. Windows asked me to restart so I did and the system was up and running without incident. I then went into the Windows 7 disk manager and extended the partition to fill the whole drive.
Knowing this was an Advanced Format drive but unsure if the alignment would be correct due to the cloning, I downloaded the bootable image for the align utility from the Western Digital site and burned it to a CD. I ran the utility and it indicated that the partition was aligned correctly and there was nothing that needed to be done.
The old drive showed as a 5.4 and the new one as a 5.9 on the Windows Experience Index. I didn't think that was too bad coming from an older 7200 RPM drive to this. I was a little worried it would be slower but that isn't the case. I haven't personally used the PC enough myself to know but my wife says she notices it is a bit faster and things are quicker to load.
This drive for me was a worthwhile upgrade and money well spent to this point. Only time will tell about the reliability as with any drive.
15 of 15 found the following review helpful:
Fast, reliable, easy to installMar 21, 2010
By Dr. Bojan Tunguz
I bought this hard drive for the purpose of expanding storage of my Acer Aspire AH340-UA230N Home Server. As it seems to be the only operating system that there have been no reviews for, I was a bit hesitant to purchase it. However, I have had no issues with this drive. Acer home server makes it very easy to install additional hard drive with front HD bays that are easy to open and require no additional cables. The hard drive was immediately recognized by the operating system, and it took very short time for it to be formated and made available for general use. The hard drive is quiet and thus far very reliable. I can't comment on how "green" it is, but I have not noticed any significant increase in the power consumption nor in the amount of heat that is emitted by the home server.
Just a couple of words of caution: this hard drive is packaged in a bare-bones package, and comes with no instructions or other information. If you have never installed an internal hard drive, you may want to get some information online about what is the best way of doing it for your compute.
13 of 14 found the following review helpful:
 Check warranty status first...May 25, 2011
By Piotr Zupinski
I purchased this hard drive in October 2010. It failed in May 2011, that itself was not enough for 1 star but the fun does not end there. When I tried to create RMA in WD website I got surprising message that warranty on my drive ended few days before I bought it. I contacted them via email to explain that I just bought it few months ago and it was advertised as having 3 year warranty and this is response I got :
"Thank you for contacting Western Digital. I apologize for the inconvenience but we can only accommodate for 1 year of shelf life. The manufacture date of this drive was 20-SEP-2007 and your purchase date was in 2010. Unfortunately, your drive does not qualify for warranty update."
So WD basically told me the warranty starts from the manufacturing date not the purchase date. Very dissapointing attitude.. I contacted Amazon and they agreed to take it back. You may want check the warranty status on WD website if you decide to buy their product anyway. I am personally going to stay away from them in the future.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Super Quality Hard-driveMar 04, 2010
By Valentine Lugovsky
"Midas Touch"
Wanted to replace my smaller boot drive with a large one. Picked this because of cost, "green" attributes and lower running temperatures. Certainly met all of the criteria. Running like a champ! One caveat, be prepared to run an "ALIGN" utility if you're using XP as the O/S. Will take a few hours (based on quantity of data).
Highly recommend.
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