ΠΡΠ·ΡΠ²Ρ ΠΎ ΠΠ΅ΡΡΠΊΠΈΠΉ Π΄ΠΈΡΠΊ Western Digital 2 Π’Π WD20EARX
593 ΠΎΡΠ·ΡΠ²ΠΎΠ² ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Π΅ΠΉ o Western Digital 2 Π’Π WD20EARX
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Western Digital 2 Π’Π WD20EARX?
ΠΠΎΠ΄Π΅Π»ΠΈΡΠ΅ΡΡ ΡΠ²ΠΎΠΈΠΌ ΠΎΠΏΡΡΠΎΠΌ ΠΈ ΠΏΠΎΠΌΠΎΠ³ΠΈΡΠ΅ Π΄ΡΡΠ³ΠΈΠΌ ΡΠ΄Π΅Π»Π°ΡΡ ΠΏΡΠ°Π²ΠΈΠ»ΡΠ½ΡΠΉ Π²ΡΠ±ΠΎΡ
ΠΠ²Π°ΡΠΊΠΎΠ²Π΅Ρ-5NPBR
08.11.2012
10/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ΅Π»ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ»Π΅ΠΏΠ½ΠΎ
First, much thanks to "Jerry Van De Beek" for the following tip! That is, to "convert the 3TB HDD (Hard-Disc-Drive) to a GPT disk in Disk management" was very helpful. However, I wanted to make a client's 3TB into an external drive to replace an older similar version in 1TB. After experimenting for a while, I figured it out. First, your GPT tip got me started as I was able to convert from "Dynamic Disc" / "MBR Disc" to "GPT Disc," which allowed me to merge the drive into a single large 2.72TB after formatting as opposed to two or three smaller hard-drives (Dynamic/MBR mode). I then had to allocate and create a "Primary Disc Drive" with all options to format or assign a drive letter UNCHECKED (Important step). After doing this via a [Vantec CB-ISATAU2 SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter Supports 2.5-Inch, 3.5-Inch, 5.25-Inch Hard Disk Drives (Black) by Vantec; "you may find this awesome device on Amazon as indicated above, which lets you connect virtually any type of hard-disc-drive or CD-ROM/DVD/Blue-Ray drive externally to any computer/laptop via a basic USB/SATA connector etc...great in the case of mounting/unmounting/restoring crashed computer/laptop systems as you are granted instant access to any Primary or Logical drives as though it were a basic data drive"]. Next, after creating an identifiable "healthy primary partition," I unplugged the 3TB HDD from the Vantec adapter and proceeded to connect to an external fan-less aluminum self-cooling casing. Voila!! There it was, finally, the external casing could identify the full 3TB (2.72TB formatted) HDD and all is well...now backing-up/restoring a client's HDD (moving all 1TB' worth of data to the newer 3TB, which could take days or weeks to complete...who knows for sure?).
Π‘ΠΏΠ΅ΠΊΡΡΠΎΠ½ΠΈΠΊ-8RJTW
04.05.2012
4/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
Π£ΠΆΠ°ΡΠ½ΠΎ
As an IT tech with 30 years of experience in computers (both from a hardware and software point of view), I'm someone who actually does know what I'm doing. I've seen other brands of hard drives and know that all of them do, on occasion, fail. It's called a "burn in" failure when it happens in the first few months of a devices use.In the case of this drive - the Caviar Green 2 TB desktop computer drive - it had a burn-in failure.It was put into a 3 year old Windows XP system as the primary back-up drive. I have about 1 TB of stuff that is backed up and needed a large drive to clone my other two 1 TB drives every week (I run a business, and need the back-ups weekly). The time it was taking to backup to an external hard drive was way too long (on the order of eight to ten hours in total for both drives), so I got this to put inside the case and increase the speed - which it did for about a week. The speed of backing up the first week was cut by two thirds. I was quite pleased.The drive was not accessed for another week (it's only a back-up drive, after all), but the next week, the back-up took 16 hours for the first of my drives. It never backed up the second. The Western Digital tools indicated it had multiple bad sectors.My experience with Western Digitals has been generally very good. The failure rate is in keeping with the opinions posted here at Amazon in that they fail about 10-15% of the time. Other drives are somewhat worse insofar as staying up and longevity goes, so this is actually better than average. No drive is perfect. This is the first time I had one with a burn-in failure. Western Digital's warranty and return policies are excellent, though, and although I RMA'd this drive to them on Monday, I'm getting the replacement five days later.The replacement will dictate whether I update this with a higher rating or lower one. Hard drive models do tend to have track records - often either very good or very bad. In playing the odds, I expect the replacement to be exactly what I expected - a large, fast hard drive that suits my needs. If it, too, fails, then I will be revamping my opinion.(In an aside, it arrived just as I finished typing "opinion" above. I'll revisit and update this review in another couple of months.)
ΠΡΠ½Π°ΡΠΈΠΊ-8TMMV
23.02.2013
8/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
Π₯ΠΎΡΠΎΡΠΎ
I purchased this to fill the fourth bay in my Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 4 (RNDU4000) network attached storage: It is on Netgear's approved product list. It was instantly recognized by the NAS and was effortlessly expanded into the existing storage volume. It has been on about 40% of the time since Oct 2012 and I have experienced no problems with it. It runs silently to my ear--the NAS cooling fan is far louder than any of the 4 Western Digital drives in the NAS. I will buy more as the market price decreases.Warning: Western Digital advises against using these drives in Network Attached Storage devices. Because these are "green" drives, they are designed to idle park the read head after a short period of time (currently after 8 seconds of inactivity). This units and can result in tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of Load Cycle Counts in Netgear's ReadyNAS units. Keep an eye on your hard drive's SMART statistics if using this drive in a NAS. There are some workarounds in Netgear's ReadyNAS forums for those dealing with a high Load Cycle Count and Western Digital offers software program (WDIDLE3) that can be used (against Warranty, I think) to set the idle timer to a longer period.
ΠΠ΅ΠΉΡΠΎΠ½-1HMOW
20.05.2012
6/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ»ΠΎΡ ΠΎ
I have 12 or 13 of these drives, bought when the prices were very low just before the Thai floods. If you buy one of these make sure you download and run the WDIDE3.exe from Western Digital to disable the 8 second default for head parking. The wear and tear this causes on the drive mercilessly shortens the life of the drive. Google it and you will find plenty of stories on this. Surprised no class action suit yet for this bad engineering decision. I suspect someone in marketing got their way over the engineers just to make the drives power consumption look better. At least the engineers were good enough to provide an official tool so those in the know (meaning you now you have read this) can fix a very bad design decision.All modern OS's spin down the drives and it is better to allow BSD, Ubuntu, Windows or what ever else you are using to power down the drives in line with the OS's requirements rather than let the hardware do it, incessantly in this case. It's more than just a theoretical issue. I lost a ZFS RAID when one of four of these drives failed and system logs showed the redundant data had not been written correctly across the drives and pointed to the head parking issue timing it out. I had NO DATA LOSS as I understand a RAID is not back up, so I always have a set of back ups of all my data, however if you are using these drives in a small RAID NAS box in your home please take heed and always have a back up somewhere and do not rely on your NAS being sufficient. Please be paranoid when you deal with your data.Anyway, my replacement drive for the above RAID was DOA. Another 4 weeks and I got a working one. Applied WDIDE3 to disable the 8 second shut down and have had no issues since.The 5400rpm speed of the drive is not an issue and keeps it cooler than a 7200 drive so no issues there either.RATING: Would give it a 5 star review but lost a star for the 8 second head park design decision, and knocked off another star because even though production has been restored to pre-flood levels the price has been kept inflated when it could be dropped down to the pre-flood rate easy enough now.
ΠΠ°ΠΏΠ΅Π»Π»Π°Π½-9AYNA
18.06.2012
10/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ΅Π»ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ»Π΅ΠΏΠ½ΠΎ
This is my 3rd WD Green drive and by far the largest and fastest out of the 3. When I built my HTPC I put in a 1.5tb Sata II Green drive and quickly ran out of space so I added another Sata II 2tb Green drive. They have been running without incident for a little over 2 years 24/7. Copying from drive to drive with Sata II I am averaging about 50-60MB/s with bursting up to 100MB/s. This is with large movie files, smaller files like MP3's and also transferring to/from my boot drive which is a very fast SSD. When those drives were getting close to full I decided that I would get the biggest drives available and probably phase the smaller drives out.Enter the WD30EZRX. It was $5 more for the Sata III version of the 3tb drives so I figured I would give it a shot even though I was not expecting it to be any faster than my older drives. The box arrived quickly and was packaged in Amazon's *Frustration Free* packaging. Being it was an OEM drive there was not a SATA cable included but this didn't matter as I had a spare. I opened up my HTPC and plugged the drive into my SATA III port and gave it power. Upon boot it was immediately noticed by the PC. Once in windows I formatted the drive as GPT and it has been working great ever since. Please note that unless you have an EFI Bios you must format at GPT or your PC will not recognize the full 3TB.Surprisingly this drive is much faster than the older Green drives I have. Copying to and from the SSD and the older drives in my machine I average about 100MB/s with up to 150MB/s bursts compared to the 60MB/s of the older drives. It is quite noticable when copying around large files so the speed increase is a nice bonus!This drive has now been running 24/7 for a little over a month and it is still going strong. I have owned many WD drives in the last 25 years and they have been rock solid so I will be sure to modify this review if I have any trouble. I highly recommend this drive and will be buying a few more in the coming months!
ΠΠ»Π°Π·ΠΌΠΎΠ½Π°Π²Ρ-6QYCQ
23.09.2012
2/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
Π£ΠΆΠ°ΡΠ½ΠΎ
This review is for the wd30ezrx 3T drive.I have had many drives from western digital, seagate, IBM, and Hitachi over the years. My failure rate has been low for all of them because I always condition my power and keep the drives cool.I've had 2 drives bad out of the box when WD was going from 512 to 4k sectors but until now I have never had a western digital drive go bad in warranty that was working when it arrived.I bought this drive in June 2012. I used it as a backup drive nightly. It was on a Sata3 port and mounted right next to the cooling fan.Yesterday while I was copying some files it gave and error and stopped. It wasn't even visible in disk manager.After a little research, it seems that firmware problems are famous with Western Digital WD30EZRX hard drive. Firmware modules are located on the service area on the platters. For some reason if one or more modules get corrupted, Western Digital WD30EZRX hard drives become inaccessible. If you attempt to access drives with firmware corruption, you will see error messages like boot failure, no operating system found, S.M.A.R.T or other BIOS errors. It is impossible to fix these errors by Do-it-Yourself data recovery. So you will have to RMA the drive and loose and data you had on it or use a professional data recovery service.If your drive is working well for you now great! I hope it continues to do so without firmware corruption for a long time.I can NOT recommend this drive for anything because of it's unpredictability.Western Digital is usually very reliable. But they have let the quality control down on these drive just like the EARS(512to4k) drives.
ΠΠ°ΠΏΠ΅Π»Π»Π°Π½-3RXMS
19.06.2012
10/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ΅Π»ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ»Π΅ΠΏΠ½ΠΎ
Hard drive reviews come in two flavors: Wary and Angry.I've had hard drives fail before, which tossed me in the angry category for a while, but now I'm back in the wary category. I was wary that this drive would be fast enough for my new computer build as a complement to a 120GB SSD boot drive. That is, I wanted to place most of my music, video games, and video on this drive without seeing a speed drop in the basic computer function. I was wary of a variable RPM for the platters of this Caviar Green HDD, but my fears have been laid to rest.This hard drive rocks.The first thing I noticed was that the drive is pretty heavy. It feels about as well insulated as bumps and drops as any HDD will ever be. The drive is a full 2TB after factory formatting, not like 1.7TB (which is a racket - I hate that). It installed quickly after I plugged it into a SATA 3Gb/s port. This drive will never push the transfer capabilities of newer SATA technologies, but you'll likely never notice. According to another reviewer, faster spin speeds are better for pulling files from various places on a drive and slower spin speeds are better for fewer, larger files. The leaves analogy is good here. As I have been using it, it's awesome. It transfers files quickly, runs quiet, uses little power, and has lots of space. I've only used ~45% of the drive, and that's >7 years of files built up including ~20 TV series, ~70 movies, and ~125 GB of music.Given my setup, I can't comment on how quickly a computer would boot up using this HDD. I would assume that it's of average speed. I also can't comment on the failure rate of this drive. The adage I've heard is to plan on your HDDs failing on average every 3-6 years. Backup everything and backup your most important files at least twice. Consider cloud storage for your most important photos or documents.
ΠΠ²Π°Π½ΡΡΠΌ-9TUQR
31.08.2011
6/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ»ΠΎΡ ΠΎ
Originally, I gave the drive 1 Star because of the reasons shown directly below. Since it turns out that registration with WD is pointless, because their "Align" utility did not work, the UPDATE of September 16th explains how I got the drive (well, 3 of them) to work and how two of the drives seem so far. The overall score is based on both of those experiences.ORIGINAL COMMENTS from SEPTEMBER 1, 2011:This 2T hard drive is pre-formatted for Vista, Windows 7, etc. It will not work with Windows XP unless you run a free utility that you can download from Western Digital (WDC). However ...Before you can download that utility, you must register with WDC, and part of that long, tedious registration process involves disclosing a LOT of personal information. You cannot skip any of these steps, as all of them are "Required."As to the quality of the hard drive, I cannot say, since I have not yet tried to use their utility program. And yes, I know we normally review products here, but invasion of privacy supersedes that.And it's a shame, because I've been buying WDC drives for years, and until now, have preferred them to other brands, and have recommended their drives to people who ask me for technical support.UPDATE SEPTEMBER 16, 2011:The "Align" utility program did not work. I tried it on two different XP-Pro SP3 computers and got the same results. Beginning with the drive right out of the box, Windows saw the drive and wanted to convert it to a Dynamic disk. I needed specific partitioning, so I cancelled the Windows Initialization Wizard and tried the WD (Acronis) utility. It could not find the drive on either computer, even though it showed up in Windows "My Computer" | Manage | Disk Management."So, I initialized the drive with Partition Wizard and tried the WD utility again. This time, it found the drive but said there were no partitions needing alignment on that drive. However, it did offer to align partitions on another drive that's been working under XP for a couple of years. Even though I do daily backup, my curiosity was insufficient to accept that offer.In the end, I went back to Partition Wizard to complete the preparation for use with XP: created a tiny hidden partition so that the main partition won't show up as "D:", and allocated the rest of the drive as a nearly 2T partition. Had to quick-format the big partition, which could be done either with Windows or Partition Wizard.So far, the two drives I've used seem to work properly, run quietly and fairly cool, go into Standby when not in use, and wake up on demand. Fingers are crossed that the data problems some other people have reported will not happen here, but I will be using 3 of these so that two of them can be backups for the active one. These two drives are in external enclosures that have both eSATA II and USB 2.0 ports.
Π’ΡΠΌΠ°Π½Π½ΠΈΠΊ-1ZDKR
26.08.2012
2/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
Π£ΠΆΠ°ΡΠ½ΠΎ
I've been happy with Western Digital drives for many years, but this is the first time I've had a drive arrive close to DOA. I purchased this drive for use in by backups using Acronis True Image. The day I received the drive I plugged it in and it worked fine. Booted up to Windows 7 and formatted the drive. I did a full system backup and everything still seemed OK. The next day I restarted my computer and the computer would not boot past the BIOS screen. My first bit of troubleshooting was to unplug this HDD, and what do you know, computer booted right up. So over the next while, I tried plugging this HDD into each of my 4 SATA drives on my motherboard, but no matter which one I used, it prevents my computer from booting up, but if the drive is not connected, everything boots just fine. My final bit of troubleshooting was to attempt to boot into the Acronis recovery boot disk, but again, once my computer hits the BIOS screen it just stops. If the drive had not worked just fine for 1 day, I might think there was something wrong with my computer, but the fact that everything worked fine and then it didn't makes me pretty sure it's the drive's failure and nothing else.I would return to Amazon for an exchange/refund, but this drive has an image of my entire computer on it. Passwords, financial data, personal files, all imaged onto the drive and I have no way to access it and wipe it clean before I return it. So I'm basically stuck with an expensive paper weight.I guess it's onto another manufacturer for my 2 TB backup drive solution.
ΠΡΡΠ΅ΡΠΎΠΈΠ΄-9KXMM
30.01.2013
10/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ΅Π»ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ»Π΅ΠΏΠ½ΠΎ
Great drive - for storage. Unless you have a new motherboard with UEFI. Everything I've read says you can't use this as a boot drive without it, and I believe it.I have an older system (quad core Athlon II), and I tried to connect this drive via a USB 2.0 Thermaltake BlacX dock so I could transfer the files from my old drive on a 3-year old motherboard (ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO), and even with Win7-64, setting the drive up with a GPT partition instead of MBR, Windows only saw 750 GB.I had to open the case and directly connect the drive to the motherboard after installing the latest chipset drivers, and THEN, hallelujah - the full 3TB was there. I think I got 100Mb/s transfer rate (if not, it was close) and put everything back together. Have been happy as a clam since.So for the tl;dr people with older motherboards - connect directly to your motherboard, install latest chipset drivers and set as GPT partition, not MBR. If you still don't get the full capacity, consider a 2TB drive instead.
Π‘ΠΈΡΠΈΡΡ-4BSKS
11.03.2012
2/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
Π£ΠΆΠ°ΡΠ½ΠΎ
For quite a long time I've been WD fan. I put WD drives in any computer I put my hands on. I've sinned, but I know better now...5 months ago I've bought 8 of those drives to exchange 7 1TB drives in my Linux server. The 1TB drives were (and are - I use them still) OK, I just run out of space. Since then I did not have a single week without some kind of failure. 3 drives are failing mechanically (almost 40% failure rate!), I have random intermittent read errors. I rolled up my sleeves and run some tests; this is what I've found:The read errors coincide with only ONE relevant (Power On Hours is not relevant, for example) changing SMART attribute - Multi-Zone Error Rate. The description of it is a bit misleading and nobody really seems to know, what it is; here: [...] it says something about writing errors, but the writes to the disk were always OK - after a retry or retries the correct data was read. The problems appeared only while reading. And only when this parameter was changing (i.e. - growing).The real big, bad issue is that the drive does not inform me about problems it had reading data! So far it looks like when the disk hits a problematic sector (so the MZER grows), instead of reporting that, it returns some arbitrary data and pretends everything is rosy - no read error, nothing - just corrupted data! So you might copy a file and find it later corrupted. Or your system will miraculously crash.I would suggest returning this drive on the very first sight of MZER>0; even better - just avoid it altogether.As a result, yet another disk has been RMAd to WD; hopefully they will accept it under warranty, as they did before; I really wouldn't like to give them only one star...Yet they managed. If the drive is RMAed, the replacement has a warranty of... ~100 days. If the original, 3y-warranty drive breaks in first 6 months, the effective warranty will be shorter than 1 year! Oh, well, that's easy, sell crap with '3y warranty', when it breaks, shorten it to 10 months. Well done, WD.
ΠΠ°ΠΏΠ΅Π»Π»Π°Π½-4FOKL
19.12.2012
2/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
Π£ΠΆΠ°ΡΠ½ΠΎ
I've spent the past few months diagnosing this between school and work. The hard drive I was sent had the potential to be 5 star, but they sent me a defective one. It crashes at least three times a week now. I've tried swapping sata cables: there was no luck. I tried swapping power lines, in case it was a short caused by the PSU; nothing fixed it still. I even started changing the sata ports for all the hard drives just on the off chance I had a defective one in the motherboard; no. I've run disk check, I've run the system file checker; no results. I even popped in a fresh copy of a windows 7 disk to run the start up repair utility: nothing happened again. I've no other option than to assume it is a defective internal Hard Drive, unless someone wants to correct me, which I would love. I love this 2 TB hard drive. I just don't love that it keeps screwing up on me. When it DOES work though, it works quite nicely. Not sure I notice much of a great difference between an Intellisense drive or just a straight 7200rpm drive.
ΠΠΈΠ±Π΅ΡΠΠ°Π±Π»ΡΠ΄Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ-3YUPL
03.03.2013
10/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ΅Π»ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ»Π΅ΠΏΠ½ΠΎ
Their mostly deployed within NAS (Network Attached Storage) units. Quiet, low energy consumption, service efficient and combined with 1, 2 or 3 of their siblings, they've been above average performers for our residential installation needs. Primarily to retain static (non changing) files such as virtual machines, pc images, music, movies, pictures and tv shows - they house this content, then allow other systems to stream locally on our network without any known or identifiable problems to date. We've purchased "other brands" in the past, including Western Digitals main competitor, and those particular brands prematurely went bad (like weeks or months post installation) - so much so, that WD has become the primary brand choice for our storage solutions moving forward.
ΠΠ΅Ρ Π°Π Π΅ΠΉΠ½Π΄ΠΆΠ΅Ρ-5MLQW
17.08.2012
8/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
Π₯ΠΎΡΠΎΡΠΎ
I bought the earlier model of the WD Green 1 TB drive about 3 years ago, and it is still going strong even now. As such, I was not reluctant to purchase the newer, larger model a few days ago.It arrived right on time (2 Days b/c of Prime) in very secure packaging that made me confident it couldn't have been damaged even from an high distance drop during the shipping.It was fairly simple to install, but I did have two main issues with the installation. It does not come with any mounting screws at all, and I am lucky I had a few laying around in my garage so it was not too inconvenient for me. Also, it does not come with a SATA cable or a power cord, and, again, I was fortunate to have one set of those also.Took a few minutes to figure out how to get it to show up in 64 bit Windows, but after hitting Start and right clicking on "Computer," all you have to do is hit "Manage" and go to "Disk Management" under the "Storage" heading. Then the hard drive will show up, and you can format it from there.I did not use the Quick format option, and it took about 6 1/2 hours to format. After that, I immediately backed up 667 Gb of data to the drive, and it only took ~2 hrs or so.In summary:Packaging: 5 StarsEase of Installation: 2.5 StarsPerformance (So Far): 5 StarsSpeed: 4 Stars--Transfers great for storage purposes, but you probably would want faster for gaming purposes.Overall, it is a great hard drive.
ΠΡΡΠ΅ΡΠΎΠΈΠ΄-1DNGZ
01.04.2013
6/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ»ΠΎΡ ΠΎ
Well, I'm currently trying to use this with a USB adapter as photo/video storage.When it's working, it works well enough and isn't particularly loud.However, mine either has problems or there's some issue with the automatic disc parking that's causing it to lose the connection with my PC. Maybe this is due to USB....I don't know. What I've read on the interwebz gives me the impression that the Blue model is the one to go with. When asked, all WD support has had to say is that it is not designed to be use as an external drive...which is strange because I've never heard of a bare HD having to be "designed" for use in an enclosure.
Π‘ΡΡΠ°Π½Π½ΠΈΠΊ-1PLYP
28.01.2013
2/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
Π£ΠΆΠ°ΡΠ½ΠΎ
First-table This is not about the brand, WD hard drives have behave well in the pass time its mostly about a mistake and the company client consideration, I have ordered a $146 USD 2.5 TB hard drive and instead they send me a 300GB huh?, I sent an email to the company explaining every thing and asking what would be possible to do to fix their mistakeand all they did was send me a stupid email with a copy and paste of a policy saying that they are not responsible of items out of the US (maybe understandable :/ ) but I emailed them back sort of like clarifying like "this is it?" and never replay me back so I had to re-order another hard drive OF COURSE NOT FROM THEM ! and it arrived good and fast, because of them I end up spending over $300us when I was just supposed to spend $146 :/ NOT COOL β¦. antonline
Π’ΡΠΌΠ°Π½Π½ΠΈΠΊ-3WXTL
04.01.2013
10/10
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I know we don't want to admit that different HDD's are for different things so we buy the cheapest one then complain when it doesn't do what we want. This reason is the largest reason drives get low scores. The other two reasons being DOA's (it happens) and user error.Green's are meant for data storage. A place to put information -like movies, so it can be accessed from time to time. It's not meant as an OS drive/boot drive. If you try and play games from it speed will suffer. It is an energy efficient, cost efficient, cheap storage device. The Black's and raptors are meant for your OS and gaming (or better an SSD). The Reds for your redundancy systems (raids, NAS, etc).Order the right HDD! Once you have the right one, resist the urge to copy your entire collection of all 30,000 Simpson episodes over until after you have done a full and thorough scan of the drive.
ΠΠ΅Ρ Π°Π Π΅ΠΉΠ½Π΄ΠΆΠ΅Ρ-6IXRO
07.03.2013
10/10
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I purchased 3 of these to use as pool drives in a Windows Homer Server verision 1 computer. I am using an older, non-advanced format drive as the system drive.From my research, WHS v1 will work with drives up to 2 TB. This is an Advanced Format Drive that has the jumpers to allow the jumpering of pins 7-8 to work with older operating systems like Win XP and WHS v1.WDC has documentation on jumpering pins 7-8 for use in older OS'es. I could not determine if the newer version of these drives supported the jumpering of pins 7-8 or not. So I purchased these on other reviews they would work in this situtation.They install and work as expected for me.
Π‘ΠΏΠ΅ΠΊΡΡΠΎΠ½ΠΈΠΊ-6AUHD
25.03.2013
2/10
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The purchased 3-Tb hard drive's heads crashed within the first week and drive returned to Western Digital (WD) for replacement; the 1st replacement failed upon arrival and was returned to WD which shipped a 2nd replacement that also failed upon arrival and then returned to WD. WD received the 2nd replacement 5 days ago, but today rep says there's no units in-stock this week and advised that I wait 5 more days then call back. Cheee..... Consistently poor reliability and now delays replacing failed replacement. I'll never buy another Western Digital hard drive.
Π‘ΠΏΠ΅ΠΊΡΡ-1AGFU
25.12.2011
10/10
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I have a total of seven of these drives between 6 on a raid array on one PC and one as a data drive (non raid) in another PC.They are slower at RPM speed than some other drives, at 5400 RPM so if you are someone who "needs" a 7200 RPM drive then you do not need this.They are however the CHEAPEST, MOST RELIABLE CHEAP drive out there. Unlike some brands who will sell you a 5400rpm drive for this, or the various drawbacks from externals, this drive is inexpensive, not annoying in its "green" power management (or needing to have it shut off) and its fast, I get good speed in my 6gb/sec Sata3 port, and overall think its great that for this price, I get a drive with a 3 year warranty, reasonably fast transfer rates despite a lower RPM (RPM is not everything apparently) and its a Western Digital (and not lower on quality) for the price.Western Digital have been reliable drives for me, for many years. I have some going back as far as 8 years old and still running (that does not mean one has never died) but it's not common. It's more common that the storage size becomes too small for me and gets it shelved than the drive fails.I am optimistic by the early performance of these Caviar Greens that I will continue to use these for a 3tb drive. For 2tb drives I prefer the Caviar Black (which is not made in 3tb size). I was apprehensive to go to another brand, so chose WD's lower line rather than risk a brand who has not performed well for me for years.Five stars are for the value, and the fact it delivers. I would like to see a 7200rpm 3tb from WD someday come around, such as a Caviar Black 3tb, but until they do, I am happy to buy these, despite I usually buy the Blacks (I do need bigger than 2tb occasionally) or like for my raid array which runs 6 3tb caviar greens, wanted the array to be bigger then 6 2tb blacks would achieve.Buy this drive with a clean conscience, it will work for you, and work well. I never have had a DOA from WD, I am sure it happens, but I have 6 pcs, and for that to never have happened, is great.WD! Caviar! and this time GREEN ain't that bad.In fact for its price, you cannot beat it.
Π₯ΡΠΎΠ½ΠΎΠΠΎΡΡΡ-6LWGC
18.03.2013
10/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
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Western Digital drives are a good product. This is my fourth WD internal drive (I also have WD external drives). Two are currently installed in my computer. A 320gb WD drive was replaced a couple years ago with a 1tb WD drive, not because it failed, but for a larger capacity drive. A nice feature is WD Acronis TrueImage that enables the operating system, program files, data files to be transitioned to the new drive. Another thing I like about WD "green" drives is that they run slower when idle. I'm very pleased with this new drive and look forward to many years of use.
ΠΡΡΠΎΠ½Π°Π²Ρ-8CZSX
25.02.2013
10/10
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My son was on a budget, and wanted as much space as his money would buy. My goal was 2TB but I found that most hard drives over 1TB had absolutely terrible ratings. I have had great luck with Western Digital drives in the past, and these green series drives have been no exception. I bought some 1TB green drives almost 4 years ago now - and they have been running night and day in a server at work without a single failure.It was worth throwing in a couple of extra bucks to get a *reliable* 2TB hard drive. No firmware updates or other nonsense necessary. We have had this drive for several months now, and no problems to speak of yet.
ΠΠ΅ΠΎΠΠΎΡΠΆΠ΅Ρ-8XODH
15.02.2013
10/10
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Considering that I paid $599 for a 52MB IDE drive in 1987...I'd have to say that things have come a long way. Anyway, I installed this drive in my (late 2009) 27" iMac and aside from not having special "Apple firmware" to report its temp to the system properly, it works great! It is a rather quiet drive and its performance is as expected! A work around for the Apple firmware issue which causes the system fans to spin at 6000rpm is to download a piece of software that utilizes the drives S.M.A.R.T. technology to report the drive temps to the MB. Once this is installed the fans calm down instantaneously!
Π₯ΡΠΎΠ½ΠΎΠΠΎΡΡΡ-7NXQR
19.02.2013
10/10
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I'm using this drive strictly as an external harddrive. After having one too many unpleasant experiences with externals, I decided I could have more security and control over the process by building it myself. I've been using the 2TB WD green for almost 3 weeks now. Its write speed is a lot faster than my last external drive, and it's great for streaming movies. I was concerned after reading some of the one star reviews, but it seems that those unfortunate people received drives that were dead on arrival. If you get a drive that isn't damaged or defective, this is a great option.
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