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Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB SATA300 WD20EARS

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Pros

Large Storage Capacity, Good Price Per Gigabyte, Runs Very Quiet And Cool
Generally solid, if unremarkable, performance, Supports nextgen 4K sector formatting.

Cons

Not Suited For RAID Usage, Three Year Warranty Less Than More Expensive Drives Or Some Of The Competition
Generally solid, if unremarkable, performance, Heavyhanded power use in some situations

By BeHardware on August 30, 2011

Unfortunately there's no such thing as the perfect hard drive and you'll have to choose your drive according to your priorities. If you’re looking for performance, for a model that will also be serving as a primary drive for example, you’ll want...

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By About.com on May 15, 2011

May 11 2011 - For anyone looking to add a large amount of storage to their desktop computer or just have a drive that produces very little noise or heat, the Western Digital WD20EARS 2TB SATA drive is a solid choice. While its performance is not...

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By APC Magazine on January 24, 2011

While every man and his exceedingly rich dog is banging on about SSDs, these super-fast drives have one problem: unless you're working on a Western Australian mine, they're too expensive for general storage duties. With our digital libraries...

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By X-bit Labs on December 28, 2010

We want to say a few words about the Samsung SpinPoint F4 first. The company decided to introduce new platters into small-capacity products and this solution seems to be right. The SpinPoint F4 is fast, inexpensive (at least, inexpensive to make) and...

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By InsideHW on December 04, 2010

The folks at Western Digital haven't been resting on their laurels, trying to continuously improve their standard HDD section as technology improves. The result is the new Green HDD series, with a capacity of 2 TB spread over three platters. In...

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By StorageReview on June 24, 2010

Western Digital helped to pioneer the "green drive" segment, and the top-of-the-line Caviar Green drive sports a lot of cutting-edge technology: IntelliPower variable spindle speed, a 64MB cache, and Advance Format for more usable space. The wow...

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By X-bit Labs on April 16, 2010

Now, let’s do some summarizing. We will go through the tested products in alphabetic order.The Hitachi 7K1000.C had very odd basic firmware with low performance, but now it looks decent enough. It breaks no records and is not completely free from...

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By Tom's Hardware on November 29, 2010

Die neuen Energiespar-Festplatten von Samsung und WD setzen auf Sektoren im so genannten Advanced Format und beeindruckende Plattergrößen von 667 GB. Was die 2-TB-Versionen der Öko-Laufwerke leisten, haben wir im Testlabor ermittelt. Samsung und...

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By ChannelPartner.de on November 23, 2010

Praktisch unhörbar: die Festplatte "Caviar Green WD20EARS" von Western DigitalDie Festplatte "Caviar Green WD20EARS" von Western Digital nutzt die neue Technik Advanced Format (AF). Advanced Format erhöht die Sektorgröße – die...

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By PC-Welt.de on September 30, 2010

Die Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EARS bringt auf 3 Datenscheiben 2000 GB unter. Der Test klärt, ob das den Stromverbrauch der Festplatte positiv beeinflusst. Die Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EARS nutzt die neue Technik Advanced Format...

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