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Western Digital 1 TB Caviar Green SATA Intellipower 64 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive WD10EARS | 
| Brand: Western Digital
Category: CE
List Price: $90.99
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Rating:  182 reviews
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Number Of Items: 1
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Hard Drive Size: 1000
Size: 1 TB
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 5.9 x 4.1 x 1
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Warranty: 3 years warranty
MPN: WD10EARS
Model: WD10EARS
UPC: 715663214069
EAN: 0715663214069
ASIN: B002U1N95K
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| 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. | | • | 3 year limited warranty. |
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 Some advances for the popular Western Digital Caviar Green drives, but XP users approach with caution February 11, 2010
snapcrackle (United States)
328 out of 334 found this review helpful
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."
Western Digital 640GB Caviar SATA Hard Drive July 27, 2008
rorschach99 (Wabash, Indiana)
75 out of 82 found this review helpful
I build computers as a hobby. Why pay for someone else to build one (one size fits does not fit all) when building your own is not too difficult and you can build with quality parts tailored to your own specific needs. Case in point, the WD 640GB HDD. Large hard drive prices are economical right now. Generally speaking, the larger the drive, the less the cost per gigabyte (GB). At Amazon's prices the WD 640GB drive was about $10 bucks more than the WD Caviar 16 320 GB drive with the same cache. Western Digital has recently color coded their drives: Black (high performance), Blue (mainstream) and Green (no brainer: ecologically friendly-for a hard drive). Where does marketing get these ideas? The Caviar 16 640GB falls into the Blue category. It is amazingly fast and quiet, thanks to its 16 MB cache and 3 Gb/s transfer rate. The technology is interesting in that WD utilized two 320GB platters which gives this drive an edge as compared to say 750 GB drives with similar cache size. The drive itself is nearly silent and the quietest HDD I have used. Its rated over 90MB/sec read and write speeds, which is very fast. Yes there are faster hard drives, but for the money this drive is an excellent choice.
My only complaint: the drive is warranted for 3 years not 5.
Amazon had the lowest price I found, and shipped the drive quickly. Turn around time from placing the order to delivery at my door step was four days. Stable, reliable and excellent price to performance ratio, this drive is a great choice for everyday computing needs.
Nice Mainstream Upgrade February 16, 2010
Schwartz (Port Allegany, PA USA)
29 out of 30 found this review helpful
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.
Fast, reliable, easy to install March 21, 2010
Bojan Tunguz (Greencastle, IN USA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
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.
Quick 'n' Quiet January 7, 2008
M. Denis Hill (Whidbey Island, Washington USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I've used one of these as my boot drive for several weeks. I've done no real testing, but it seems quick and is quiet except when spinning up. I also have a 500GB Seagate drive and the WD case casting seems better finished FWIW. The Seagate looks a bit crude, but performance is not an issue so far as I'm using it to back up the main drive. It will be interesting to see if the 5-year Seagate warranty does me any good; will I care about replacing a 500GB SATA drive in five years?
BTW, I'm being careful to back up stuff since the 160GB Maxtor SATA drive in my old Dell croaked and I had to send the drive out to be recovered.
I'll either buy another of these WD drives to use in the Addonics SATA front-loading dock I recently got, or will wait until WD comes out with a SATA/300 Raptor and make it the boot drive.
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