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Скроменый эксперт
01.10.2010
2/10
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I have 4 drives on my Mac Pro and made the mistake of adding this one in my last drive for my photography work. Sure enough 6 months later the drive started failing and I had to buy special software to retrieve my photos on this drive from the corrupt areas. Not a good investment.
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27.08.2009
2/10
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I was trying to make a RAID 5 with 4 X 1TB HD.In fairness to WD I must emphasize the fact that MBR (Master Boot Record, before Win Vista)is not made for such a big storage, and this may be part of the problem, but I do not think that this is the main one.And this is not well published!! It took me 2 months to find this out.Beware if you have Win XP 32 bits and want to do the same.Out of the 4X1Tb HD, 2 went dead! Even using the utility for re-writing 0's did not work (WD data life diagnostic tool). Hence if it were just a logical problem, it should have solved it.I got 2 replacement disks. Again one failed to the same level. In the meantime in another PC, a 500Gb WD HD also suddenly died and had to be replaced (one out of three).So out of 3X500 Gb, one died, and out of 6X1Tb, 3 died. Again, I may have inadvertently over-stressed them (not the 500 Mb though). Yet I have never ever faced anything like this. I am used to Seagate's and Maxtor's. To date I have had one major failure, in 20 years!!! Thank to WD the record has been quite amended.I must recognised that I did not purchase this HD on Amazon. But since I do use Amazon for many other Items, I did check the reviews and that is what influenced my choice, and also the fact that Seagate's HD had not such a good appraisal.Finally, although it is not relevant to Amazon's customers, the after sale service in Middle-East is non existent. As compare to an excellent one with Seagate, there is no doubt that I will rather twist my arm rather than purchasing anymore WD product.Western Digital Caviar Green 1 TB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive 3.5 Inch, 32 MB Cache, SATA II WD10EADS
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23.07.2010
10/10
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I bought this drive a little over a year ago and it is still cranking. I use it in a media center PC that accesses it constantly for show recordings and DVR style playback. It is quiet, cool, and inexpensive. Since it has been past the 1 year infant mortality time period it looks like I have this one for the long haul.If you are looking for a drive with good speed, low temperature, low noise, and inexpensive, then this is a good buy for you.
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01.12.2009
10/10
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I caught the Windows Home Server bug and am using this in an HP MediaSmart Home Server. These servers have hot-swappable drive trays which have good airflow but the drives mount really closely on top of each other. This makes heat my main concern. I use the Green Power drives because they generate much less heat and consume less power than regular drives.It's important to remember that these drives do not vary their speed, but different batches of the same model do vary their spindle speed. The drives are tested and are pre-set at the factory to a stable balance of speed, power consumption, and heat production.These newer models have 32 megabytes of cache memory which makes them great for online storage. Previous models have smaller cache and aren't so well-suited for a server that is on a gigabit speed network like mine where the network can be faster than the drive, but the larger cache in this model is a great boon.I highly recommend the GreenPower drives and this is the state of the art for Windows Home Server folks. I think it's necessary to point out that the WD GreenPower drives have similar power, heat, and performance to Samsung's F1 drives, so make sure you check those out for your server needs as well.
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11.10.2010
10/10
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The disc seems good. Stable, fairly fast, no problems with clicking or other sounds. Just spinning around in there saving the stuff I put on it.
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18.01.2010
6/10
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I recieved my new drive, formatted and partitioned it, used the WD version of Acronis and mirrored the OEM Caviar SE 16 WD. After installing in my Media Center Tower, you can hear the drive working! It is the noisiest drive I have ever heard! I have owned Seagate, WD and Hitachi drives, and if this is the quietest drive around, I would really hate to hear the loudest. I wish I knew if it was becasue of it being a greeny, I have only owned WD SE or Blacks before. I was really hoping to notice an increase in speed, going from a 16mb 7200 drive to this 32MB variable speed, but havent so far. I did really appreciate the Acronis from the web site, one click cloning, super cool that! The price was certainly right, and the fact I could get one right away; some of the other sites, didn't have any good drives in stock, so gettting this drive three calendar days after ordering was a definate plus, box had a plastic holder that cupped the drive at both ends, seemed to protect the drive fairly well. I just wish the thing wasn't so darn noisy.
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13.01.2010
8/10
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I got this drive specifically to use in my Antec MX-100 3.5-Inch USB Aluminum Enclosure. Both came highly recommended by reviewers. The enclosure is passively cooled, so I was very interested in the lower heat generation of this unit. And it does run pretty cool.So far I've been very happy with this unit. I don't use my external drive more than a few times a month, but I haven't had any problems. It seems just as speedy as my other external drive. The capacity for the price was a very good deal and I've had pretty good experiences with Western Digital hard drives.My only concern, the Western Digital Green drives are built to be more energy efficient than most other drives. From what I've read, they do this by parking their drive heads more often than other hard drives. This scares me a little, because stopping and starting tends to cause more wear and tear on mechanical parts. I'd be a little hesitant to use one of these as my main drive inside my computer, until I saw some long term reports on lifespan.
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08.02.2010
6/10
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Found out after I got these harddrives that they are not build for RAID configurations. What I mean is that only a few select harddrives are build to be used in RAIDs. The problem is that non-RAID hardware, like these units, take too long to correct disk errors should they occur. By taking so long, the RAID software thinks the unit is bad and kicks it off the RAID setup. Hence you get all the negative reviews of NAS devices. Something along these lines: 1. bought the unit, it worked great for 2 months. 2. Unit crashed and unable to get it to work again. 3. Took out harddrive and data is still on it and it seems to work fine. 4. I conclude that the NAS is bad and therefore I give this NAS a 1 star.Only RAID drives are able to do error checks and fixes really quick, and thus the RAID software does never throw them out of the array.So these harddrives might be good for other purposes, but not for RAID.
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06.09.2010
10/10
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I filled up my Windows Home Server with these, and they're great. It cut down on the noise tremendously. When I upgrade to larger size drives, I'll definitely be sticking with Green drives!
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10.10.2009
10/10
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Basic reason for buying a green drive;The key fact here is that heat kills hard drives more than anything else. Therefore, buy a harddrive that reduces heat. Ergo, buy a green drive. Drives that use less electricity when in use and generally spin lower produce less heat. If you can accept the relatively modest dip in performance for reliability over the long run, then a green drive is your best bet.I currently have two, both purchased from Amazon. No problems yet, but there is a modest decline in performance compared to my Seagate drives, but my Seagate drives tend to die faster then any other. Again, Heat Kills Hard Drives.To further reinforce this, I have Speedfan running to monitor temperatures. My Green drives on load clock in around 40 degrees Celsius often dropping to high 20s, low 30s idling. As I type this, they are at 30 degrees. Now, my Western Digital 160, non-green drive is running at 40 C idle often pushing high 40s to mid 50s on load.I don't demand extreme speed from my hard drives and I feel that losing a hard drive is a colossal pain in the butt (RAID 1 is an alternative, but replacing drives sucks period regardless of mirroring). Therefore, I'm exclusively going with green drives now.To sum it up:Low Heat = Longer Hard Drive Life
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05.01.2010
6/10
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My product did not include any documentation. None of the product information specified that a connecting SATA cable was necessary. Needless to say, this did not make for a happy out-of-box experience. I downloaded installation documentation from Western Digital but due to several use, and connection options, this is not an easy-out-of-box experience. The last hard drive I purchased was very easy to install and did not require any additional cables, etc. I used the SATA cable from my dvd drive, and although the Windows 7 Device Manager acknowledges the hard drive, Windows Explorer does not, and now I have to contact Western Digital Support, as well as wait for my additional cable before I can reconnect my dvd drive. I wonder if I should have purchased a Seagate drive instead. The Amazon.com shipping was exceptional as I received my product much sooner than expected. Thank you Amazon.com!:)
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13.11.2009
2/10
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I've concluded that buying Western Digital hard drives is a shot in the dark to get one that works properly. No more WD drives for me again - I don't have time to debug their junky drives. I'm returning this drive and buying a different brand hard drive.This drive was ordered 11/02/09 and arrived in apparently good condition and was packed well by Amazon, but the drive has been flaky from day one. Using it in a Windows desktop, the drive would sometimes format successfully, sometimes it wouldn't. When it would format, the drive would go offline while doing backups to it necessitating a reboot to "see" the drive again. Other times when copying files to the drive, it would "hang" for 1 or 2 minutes, then mysteriously come online again.This is the 3rd WD drive I've bought in the last 3 yrs. 2 out of 3 of them were bad - 33% success rate! Testing/debugging a bad drive to ensure it's not some other component in the computer (SATA cables, motherboard, power, etc.) is time consuming - I don't have for that, and WD has permanently lost my hard drive business.
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19.09.2009
10/10
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I have been in the computer industry for years, but now retired. I have used many hard drive manufactures over the years, and have simply found Western Digital to be one of the most reliable. In fact, I had some very old western digital drives that are still being used today that are over 10 years old. Many I have retired, simply due to size of the old ones, but, they are still working hard drives. I now have a WD IDE 500gb in a family file server, and just installed this SATA 1TB drive for files, video, music, pictures etc on the family file server. I plan to buy another one and set up RAID1 for redundancy back up with the two 1TB drives. The 500gb drive I have been using it as the file server stowage for a year now. I never turn this server off and this drive has performed flawlessly. Now it is placed in the new file server as the boot & application drive with the TB drive/s for stowage. They simply work, and WD has always been the work horse drives for me. I have had so many other manufactured drives fail, but I can not remember a WD drive failure specifically.UPDATE: Months later, and the drive is still purring, and used daily as a network drive for all the computers in the house. I just purchased another one to RAID1 with it.
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15.02.2010
2/10
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I received this hard drive in a small cardboard box with one side of the drive totally un-supported: Hitting the sides of the box. I will submit a photo. The photo's shown of packaging made me feel better after I had read a bad review about packaging of the drive-sure enough that review was correct. I don't know what percentage of drives are package correctly...but mine was not. You don't ship a hard drive unsupported in a box-and at least try and add some cushioning to the packaging please. The defect in this box was the tab that secures the internal supports broke free (either due to assembly error-or it broke free in transit). Either way I can't trust the drive to not fail on me in a few days/weeks/months. Buyer beware.
Скроменый эксперт
10.11.2009
6/10
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Плохо
I picked up two of these drives to make my changeover to Windows 7 on a new computer. I ran on one of them for about a month, checking out the hardware on XP. When I installed Win7, I used the second drive for most of my programs and data.After about 24-48 hours of heavy use, that second drive croaked. It wouldn't read some data and I got a bunch of SMART errors reported when I rebooted. I saved off a few files, but it was dying fast.This obviously rules out a 5 star ranking. But I must say that WD has really good warranty service. They will ship a replacement to you before getting the old drive (with a Credit Card # on hold) and they got me a replacement shipped on the next business day with overnight shipping. Plus.....either by mistake or design, they gave me a 640-GB drive in exchange for the 500 that went belly up.Both drives have been fine since. And I have 4 1TB drives from them in my NAS.Bottom line is that I can't personally attest to a perfect product.....but I can state that they make it easy to resolve problems.
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30.10.2009
8/10
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I have been using the Western Digital hard drive for about 2 weeks. I am using this hard drive in my HTPC system that sits right next to my living room TV. So far I have not heard the hard drive make any noise.This review is more about Amazon packaging then about the hard drive performance. I stay in Alabama so my hard drive was shipped from Kentucky. Overall I think my hard drive was packaged ok. The interior box that contained the hard drive was packaged well but the exterior box was not. The hard drive was packaged between 2 foam holders that held the drive in place inside the smaller interior box. The interior box was then placed inside a medium sized box that contained 2 air pillows. One of the air pillows was deflated so the interior box was able to move around in the large box. I gave the Amazon packaging a ok rating because it was packaged great inside the interior box.I think each Amazon's facilities packages their hard drive different from each other. I took a picture of the packaging so I am going to put a link up later on.
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02.12.2009
10/10
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I just bought two of these and put them into a two bay RAID 0/1 all-metal enclosure with built-in fan and power supply. They are so quiet and run so cool that the enclosure is cold to the touch! But you've been told about them running cool a couple hundred times already by other reviewers of this drive.I just want to comment that apparently Amazon listened to all the complaints about these drives being thrown haphazardly into a box for them to rattle around in. When I received these two drives packaged together, each was in a separate box within a bigger box that had bubble wrap firmly in place. Within the internal separate boxes, the drives were fixed securely in place by form-fitting, clamping enclosures that made it impossible for the drive to move around during shipping. You just could not ask for better packaging. So don't be put off by the 22 or so complaints about poor packaging! The packaging problem has been solved!
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21.04.2009
10/10
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WD engineering continues to impress me and I've been in the IT business for 20+ years as an engineer on all levels. When used in an Apple computer these drives impress with the hardware and OS ability to control the drive for increased performance. Some PC's are being built with this capability as well, but even without it the on-board processor performs fantastic. I would however not recommend this drive in a server due to it's variable spindle speed.In an external enclosure SATA II through Firewire 800 sustained speeds matched a WD Black 1tb drive, basically maxing out the FW800 bandwidth. Through USB 2.0 they both performed identical as well but USB speeds are based on the external enclosures chip and since it's Serial (USB) it's ONE WAY at a time which makes it slow when compared to FW400/800.Temps in an iMac were less than 109* at most times, rarely exceeding 110* which also resulted in lower fan noise.Lower Heat, Less power generally equal longer life and higher reliability however these drives are still new. But as of this review our company has 2 in a NAS Enclosure running in RAID1 for the last 4 months non-stop without any issues.The WD Black drives would be ideal when performance is what matters but in situations where energy consumption and more importantly heat is considered the ideal attribute these drives are best. The WD black is about 30% faster overall on either Mac/Pc.Spindle speed varies from 4200rpm-7200rpm on newer models, first generation varied 5400rpm-7200rpm. Both are able to stop altogether through a spin down feature however this will never "spin-down" on a windows based machine due to the indexing Windows employs that access's the drive once every 3 seconds.
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11.07.2009
10/10
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Let me tell you something: SPACE IS A MUST ON A COMPUTER.Music is my life on my workstation, not to mention having around 15 GB of pictures. I have a lot of memories, as well as a lot of tunage, that I want to keep safe, protected, and to have all fit on one hard drive.I upgraded from a 250 GB Western Digital, and this was probably the best move I could have made. Granted, transferring data over always is a little bit of a pain, and I did encounter a couple of errors with my iTunes library. (The key is to maintain drive letter integrity, I found out...meaning the letters have to match up from your transfer device to your new device). But I digress.This hard drive is a tad bit louder than my other smaller drive, but you would almost have to expect a little more noise with such an increase in capacity. The hard drive response for files is very quick, and I must say that capacity is not something I am worrying about much anymore with 1 TB of space.A KEY NOTE ABOUT THIS PRODUCT: it is an OEM hard drive. This means that it will only come with the hard drive unit, no mounting screws, cables, or anything of the sort. You will need to have a spare power cord and SATA connector cord, as well as mounting screws ONLY IF you want to keep your old hard drive in the computer (which I did).I give this product 5 stars. It will be a very good investment for you if you need a lot of space, and if you don't want any worries.
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20.12.2009
10/10
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Disclaimer: I've had this drive all of one day, so I'll leave commentary on reliability to others. That said, I've backed up over 100GB of data to it so far and have been very pleased with the performance of the drive and especially the noise level. For background, I'm backing up a couple of Macs to this drive inside a Icy Dock Firewire 800 enclosure using SuperDuper and Time Machine. The drive is extremely quiet, quietest I've ever owned by far, and heat even in my fan-less enclosure has not been a problem. As for speed, I was backing up at a rate of roughly 25MB/s over FW800, which suits my needs and then some. I have not had a WD drive in some time, but after the issues Seagate had with bricking drives via firmware (and even worse, the poor response by their customer support), I decided to give WD a try. So far I'm very pleased with the purchase.
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12.10.2009
10/10
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This was my first hard drive purchase. Overall, I am very pleased.Even though others reported that the packaging problems were being fixed, I was still worried I'd get a box of bolts. I was happy to receive the drive in a box that was about twice as big as the drive itself, with styrofoam holders made specifically for shipping hard drives. The drive was in an antistatic bag as well.THE PROBLEM I had with the shipping came from the fact that I ordered 4 other electronic items as well, and the packager thought it would be perfectly ok to just rest them all on top of each other and throw a few semi-inflated air bubbles on top. Everything was shifting around by the time I got it. This wasn't so much a problem for the other stuff, since it was all in its OEM packaging. But I was worried about the drive. So far I haven't noticed anything wrong, but I did voice my concern to Amazon.INSTALLATION was a breeze (make sure you log into your bios setup and turn on the hard drive slot), and with WD's free copy of True Image, I had my old drive completely cloned with just a few clicks.
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06.02.2010
10/10
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I am running 2 of these in a Raid 1 set up, and so far they are running perfectly. Noise: what noise! Heat: WD says they designed these to be low heat, noise, and power but so far the only one that is not intirely true is the heat! If you tower is cramped I would still install extra cooling fans. They dont put out as much heat as my WD ide hdd, but they are close. There could have been a little more pin configuration along with the drive packaging, but so far I am very pleased with them. I call them my "twins" (makes my kids jelious) because this system I built from the ground up! Now I need upgrade to a big fast stronger system with the twins!! Oh, good price too.
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14.03.2010
10/10
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I've had the WD 1 TB Caviar Green for several months now. It was easy to set up on my new computer build and has worked flawlessly. It may not be as fast as a Caviar Black but it is more than adequate for storage and serving up videos and music. It is also more energy efficient but at a slight performance hit. I have more than average computer experience, this being my 4th computer build over the years plus working with computers on my day job. Previously, I had purchased another one of these drives for my son and he likes it.
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25.12.2009
10/10
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I needed something to use with my Thermaltake BlacX dock. This drive worked perfectly. I wanted a solid drive with a lot of space (this was written in 2009, by the way...I used to think 1 GB was a lot of space).One of the concerns I had, was cooling in the dock, which would be passive, although out in the open. This drive only got warm, so this is definitely a winner for me. Because I was using a USB interface, I can't really rate the performance, but for backing up, this is a huge bargain.I read some other reviews where they had DOA's caused by poor packaging. These (I bought two) seemed to be packaged just fine. They came in cardboard boxes and were isolated from the edges with cardboard inserts as you might expect. However, I ordered multiple items, meaning these boxes were inside a larger box.
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