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If you're after an incredibly cheap 2TB hard disk, you're unlikely to find much better value than the Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB, which costs just under 4p per GB. Cost is nothing if the performance isn't there to match. The Caviar Green range is...
A bit slow but very cheap, this is one of the most cost-effective 2TB disks around...
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The data density of hard disks keeps increasing, which in turns causes the storage capacity to grow larger and larger. A milestone was reached earlier this year for 3.5-inch disks, with the arrival of the first hard drive with a capacity of 4 terabyte f...
It's great to finally get 2 TB on a 2.5-inch disk, but it's a shame that the Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB won't fit in most laptops with its 15mm thickness. If you happen to have a laptop where it will fit, then you can upgrade the storage capacity...
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The 1.5TB Caviar Green is one of Western Digital’s new “advanced format” drives, using 4KB sectors instead of the older 512-byte standard. It lets the manufacturer squeeze more capacity out of each disk, but from the user’s perspective it works like an...
The new disk format yields disastrous performance...
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In a computing world that is seeing its storage needs rapidly expand, we have seen a quick surge in the capacities of today’s hard drives. While we all know that the recent SSD revolution has produced some of the fastest consumer-available storage medi...
Low energy consumption, HUGE 2TB size, Great Price for a drive this size, Low Noise, Best Price per GB ratio we have ever seen in a review unit...
While not expensive, the biggest drive going always command a price premium, Low noise and power come at the expense of increased latency, Slow compared to 2TB Black, Single processor, Single Actuator design, While WD claims they are set anywhere from 540...
The Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB is one of those products that comes along every now and then which we don't have high expectations for but we nonetheless walked away extremely impressed. This drive is certainly not an enthusiast “high perfo...
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In 1980 when the personal computer was just starting to show up in the office, hard disk drives were typically no larger than a few megabytes in size. And if you had a 10MB drive it was huge! Everyone wondered if you could possibly ever fill that dri...
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Still, the characteristics of these two hard drives are significantly different. Both are low at idle power and stay really cool, but performance and efficiency varies. WD adjusted its 1.5 TB Caviar Green to deliver quick access time and high I/O performance...
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digitalversus.com Updated:
2013-09-10 01:26:23
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The Western Digital Caviar Green is part of the manufacturers eco range of hard drives, which spin at 5400 rpm rather than the more common 7200 rpm. According to Western Digital, as hard drive capacities increase, the power required to run those...
Very quiet!, Average temperature: 40 °C...
Access time: 15.1 ms, Slower speeds than a traditional hard drive...
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Western Digital's enormous 2TB drive is the largest internal disk that we've ever seen. Over 1,800GB of formatted storage is split across four platters, and Western Digital's environmental features limit power draw to 6W - not quite 4W, but still impre...
Expensive, but worth it if you need a huge amount of space...
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The 1TB Caviar Green drive comes with the same "green" features as the rest of the range: the trio of platters spin at an undisclosed speed, set somewhere between 5,400 and 7,200rpm, and other features work to lower power requirements. The result is an...
Cheap, quick and green - the eco-friendly drive of choice...
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Hard disk legend Western Digital seems to be avoiding the solid state option for the time being, instead sticking to platter-based data spinners. Its latest, the Caviar Green, comes in at a whopping 2TB for £240. Or, in other words, 12p per gigabyte. H...
Massive capacity, Good performance, Cool and quiet...
Not SSD fast...
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pcworld.co.nz Updated:
2013-09-10 01:26:29
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The Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB WD20EADS hard drive boosts the capacity game to a whole new level. This $599 drive crams 2 terabytes into a single drive – making this drive a boon to anyone with a large data archive, multimedia library, or space-...
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The Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB WD20EADS hard drive boosts the capacity game to a whole new level. This $469 drive crams 2 terabytes into a single drive — making this drive a boon to anyone with a large data archive, multimedia library, or space-hogging video collection. Weve used words like gargantuan and massive before to describe the capacity of a hard-disk drive, but this model blows all other examples away. Western Digital is the first drive maker to achieve 2TB in one drive. The pre...
Massive drive packs 2TB of storage...
Pricey, despite a competitive cost per gigabyte...
The slight lag in performance shouldn’t be enough to deter people who have large data libraries from getting the WD Caviar Green 2TB WD20EADS. Nor should it put off casual and professional digital media enthusiasts, who will rightly crave this drive...
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The Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB WD20EADS hard drive boosts the capacity game to a whole new level. This £209 disk crams 2 terabytes into a single drive - making it a boon to anyone with a large data archive, multimedia library, or space-hogging...
The slight lag in performance shouldn't be enough to deter people who have large data libraries from getting the WD Caviar Green 2TB WD20EADS. Nor should it put off casual and professional digital media enthusiasts, who will rightly crave this drive...
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It's a sign of how fast the technology industry moves that no sooner had Hitachi broken unprecedented ground by releasing the first 1TB hard drive , people were already talking about who would be first to 2TB. Well, it actually took a little longer than s...
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Western Digital will break new ground later this month when its 2TB Caviar Green WD20EADS hard drive goes on sale. Seagate packed 1.5TB into its Barracuda 7200.11 drive by using four platters and eight heads, but WD has gone a step better and squeezed...
WD’s new 2TB Caviar Green is surprisingly fast yet its also very quiet. Besides, what self-respecting power PC owner doesnt want a 2TB drive? ® More Storage Reviews... Seagate 1.5TB Barracuda WD VelociRaptor 300GB Intel X-25M 1TB HDD Group Test...
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expertreviews.co.uk Updated:
2013-09-10 01:26:42
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This 2TB disk can store 12 days worth of AVCHD video or four years of MP3s. That may seem pointlessly huge, but were sure some people will find a use for all that space. Surprisingly for such a cutting-edge product, its competitively priced, at 1...
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Enthusiasts—even the ones who love powerful graphics cards and multi-core processors—are increasingly aware of the fact that energy conservation is in vogue. More and more new products are being given catchy labels with “green,” “energy efficient,” and...
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Ten percent of all 3.5in hard drives sold today are in capacities of 1TB or greater, claims Mark Geenen, President of Trend Focus. For enthusiasts, that number would grow exponentially and with their low cost, rightly so. A few months ago Seagate la...
The Western Digital Caviar Green in 2TB form has a lot of strong features and innovative technology to impress us just with its specifications alone. New and innovative usually comes with a drawback and many consumers tend not to take it lightly, co...
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Behardware.com Updated:
2013-09-10 01:26:14
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After publishing our report on 2 TB drives, we’re throwing ourselves back into the breach with a selection of 1 TB drives! More common, these drives have...
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Above is a chart we put together that represents an (unweighted) geometric mean of the overall performance of each drive, based on all the tests we performed. Use this chart as a rough guide only, as we used an admittedly simplistic methodology to create these comparison numbers: All the test scores were calculated with equal weighting; we factored...
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Western Digital has improved its low power consuming line of HDDs, titled the Caviar Green, by increasing the cache size to 64 MB from its earlier 32 MB spec. The disk still operates through a SATA 3Gbps interface. Since the drive consumes lesser power...
The drive is definitely good on the green side but needs to up the ante further in terms of performance.Page(s) 1 I am interested in more information about this productI am interested in buying this productPrintCommentEmailDiggDel.icio.usRedditTw...
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The Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB is part of the company’s GreenPower line of drives, which strive for a balance between performance, power usage, and noise levels. Like earlier GreenPower drives, the Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB leverages tech...
Massive storage capacity, efficient power usage, low noise levels, excellent pricing.
Not as fast as 7200 RPM drives.
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xbitlabs.com Updated:
2013-09-10 01:26:17
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We seem to have established a tradition of writing an article about 1-terabyte hard disk drives each ten months or so. In the first roundup, written almost two years ago, we just acquainted you with such products because that was the peak storage capac...
Here is the summary of our third test session with 1-terabyte hard disk drives.Western Digital’s Caviar Black are still the best if you are looking for the fastest HDD. These 1TB drives have not yet transitioned to 500GB platters and are slightly in...
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gamepyre.com Updated:
2013-09-10 01:26:18
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Western Digital has been in the storage business for as long as I have been writing reviews, and they have always proven to have a solid product in their hard drive lineup. They have had the easiest to work with RMA program for at least ten years...
I must say that having this much storage space on a single drive is quite appealing and my HTPC is an appreciative host for the WD 2TB Green hard drive. Now I can store even more massive quantities of movies and music, but in honesty I cannot wait un...
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The 3-platter WD Caviar Green 1.5TB looks to improve on the already impressive acoustics and energy efficiency of the 2TB version. The 500GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.12, on the other hand, is a performance drive with only a single-platter and has the pot...
The 1.5TB Western Digital Caviar Green is one of the most impressive drives to pass through our labs in a long time. Not only is one of the quietest hard drives we've tested, amongst 3.5...
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3dGameMan.com Updated:
2013-09-10 01:26:19
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Video Review: The Western Digital Caviar Green line of SATA HDDs ranging from 500GB to 2TB capacities. Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB Hard Drive is designed to be fast but the prime focus is on power conservation and capacity. This HDDs interface is SATA 3 Gb/s (Gigabits per second), has a capacity of 2TBs (2000GBs), a varying rotation speed of 5,400 to 7,200 RPMs, a 32MB buffer size, power consumption is 7.4W while being accessed & 4W when idle, the noise level is 25dBA to 29dBA & comes with a 3 y...
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The new 7,200 rpm 2 TB drives from Western Digital, RE4 and Caviar Black, achieved the same performance level. They are a lot faster than the...
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The recent Two Terabyte HDD releases are fast and furious. We tested three samples in this article. There are more to come but this is a start. EXPLANATION of GRAPHSHit2TB = Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000 (HDS722020ALA330) Idle: 7.5 watts, Startu...
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We really like the WD Caviar Green and Black 2 TB hard drives. They will serve their intended market perfectly and are great performing hard drives. The only negative about them is that they don't support SATA 6GB/s...
The WD Caviar Black 2 TB (model WD2001FASS) hard drive is insanely fast for how big it is and the WD Caviar Green 2 TB (model WD20EADS) is perfect for those that want big storage with energy efficiency...
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Western Digital has been in the storage business for as long as I have been writing reviews, and they have always proven to have a solid product in their hard drive lineup. They have had the easiest to work with RMA program for at least ten years, it's...
I must say that having this much storage space on a single drive is quite appealing and my HTPC is an appreciative host for the WD AV-GP 2TB hard drive. Now I can store even more massive quantities of movies and music, but in honesty I cannot wait unti...
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Many readers can remember a simpler time, a time when hard drive sizes were measured in megabytes. Gone are those halcyon days. Hard drive capacity has finally hit the 2TB milestone (and in an eco friendly package no less). Western Digital has relea...
For being the first 2TB drive out on the market, Western Digital got a lot of things right. The drive performs very well, even though it is not coined as a “performance drive.” Where this drive will really shine is in the datacenter storage ma...
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pcshoptalk.com Updated:
2013-09-10 01:26:26
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At first I want to thank Western Digital for providing me the Caviar Green 2TB HDD for testing and reviewing.Western Digital Green SATA HDDs reduce power consumption by up to 40% compared to desktop drives, are very silent and keep operating at low tem...
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Storage technologies have really pushed the limits of magnetic storage to the extreme. It wasnt too long ago that many "experts" said that storage built on magnet disks would reach their end of life due to not a blocked of bit density. All those barri...
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The green technology movement is obviously in full swing now. Better efficiency through technological innovation has a trickle down effect to many facets of life style, technology and the environment. Whether motivated by cost or environmental reason...
Western Digitals Green Power 2TB drive performed above average in our tests and did so while running very cool and quiet. It excelled at disk writes and delivered results at or near the top in all benchmarks when compared to the other consumer drives...
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mobilitytoday.com Updated:
2013-09-10 01:26:29
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We have been lucky enough to have the opportunity to review the new Western Digital 2 TB Caviar Green hard drives. Our first choice to enclose our Caviars is the Data Robotics Drobo! The drive in our initial tests have exceeded our expectations and is...
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The 2 TB Western Digital Caviar Green is yet another milestone in the unrelenting quest for greater storage capacity. There was once a 40 MB hard disk drive was considered state-of-the-art. Now, Western Digital gives us a hard disk drive of the same p...
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A few weeks ago, we reviewed one of Western Digital’s flagship drives, the Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB SATA hard drive. Like WD’s top end Velociraptors, the drive was engineered and designed for desktop performance with a 7200RPM spind...
The Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB (WD20EADS) SATA hard drive clearly stands alone as one of the largest hard drives to hit the market yet. With four platters of 500GB goodness spinning at a measly 5400RPM, you would think that it wouldn’t be able...
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5,400- 7,200RPM 1,863.01GB 4 x 500GB 32MBAs fast as the latest batch of SSDs has proven to be, for maximum storage you still can’t beat the trusty mechanical hard disk drive, reinvigorated in the last two years with the development of perpendicul...
Well, its a pretty disappointing picture as far as performance goes for the Western Digital 2TB Caviar Green. Theoretical performance as measured by HD-Tach is uniformly poor and while performance in our write and copy tests for both MP3 and ISO file...
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We are taking a break from SSD previews to bring you a retail edition review of the Western Digital 2TB Caviar Green. PCPer reviews are typically on the bleeding edge of fast and nimble hardware, but we must occasionally take a step over to the othe...
For those who need as much as can possibly be crammed into a 3.5" form factor, the Western Digital WD20EADS Caviar Green is sure to please. While the performance is nowhere near Raptor territory, the sequential transfer rates are admirable given the...
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pcgameshardware.com Updated:
2013-09-10 01:26:36
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New capacity record With the 2 Terabyte hard drive Western Digital set a new capacity record - PC Games Hardware made a brief test of the HDD. Hitachi was the first company to reach the Terabyte; last year Seagate exceeded the former limit with an 1.5...
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Capacity wars have been going on for years in the magnetic storage hard drive arena. First it was Hitachi with the 1 TB hard drive, then came Seagate with a 1.5 TB drive last year and now the crown for largest capacity has been snatched by Western Digi...
Good overall performance, silent, cool, perpendicular recording technology, huge capacity...
Expensive...
Capacity wars have been going on for years in the magnetic storage hard drive arena. First it was Hitachi with the 1 TB hard drive, then came Seagate with a 1.5 TB drive last year and now the crown for largest capacity has been snatched by Western Digi...
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I have a theory that data expands to fill available capacity, much in the way work expands to fill available time, and Jessica Simpson expands to fill available magazine covers. If the capacity is there, we tend to use it. And why not? Theres no sense...
Western Digital has captured the capacity crown by a comfortable margin with the Caviar Green 2TB, and itll likely hold onto the title for a while. Thats probably why the drives suggested retail price is a lofty $299—theres a premium to be paid for...
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maximumpc.com Updated:
2013-09-10 01:26:39
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Editorial Correction: This review initially stated that the WD Caviar Green 2TB has a variable rotation speed between 5400rpm and 7200rpm. WD has since clarified that Caviar Green drives have steady spindle speeds, but they don't disclose the exact spe...
Highestcapacity consumer drive on the market. Low power consumption. Quiet.
Not particularly fast; the extra 500GB costs more than $100.
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Ten percent of all 3.5in hard drives sold today are in capacities of 1TB or greater, claims Mark Geenen, President of Trend Focus. For enthusiasts, that number would grow exponentially and with their low cost, rightly so. A few months ago Seagate la...
The Western Digital Caviar Green in 2TB form has a lot of strong features and innovative technology to impress us just with its specifications alone. New and innovative usually comes with a drawback and many consumers tend not to take it lightly, co...
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We've used words like gargantuan and massive before to describe the capacity of a hard-disk drive, but this model blows all other examples away. With the WD20EADS Western Digital is the first drive maker to achieve 2TB in one drive. The previous top h...
The slight lag in performance shouldn't be enough to deter people who have large data libraries from getting the WD Caviar Green 2TB WD20EADS. Nor should it put off casual and professional digital media enthusiasts, who will rightly crave this drive...
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The Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB WD20EADS hard drive boosts the capacity game to a whole new level. This $299 drive crams 2 terabytes into a single drive--making this drive a boon to anyone with a large data archive, multimedia library, or space-ho...
Massive drive packs 2TB of storage...
Pricey, despite a competitive cost per gigabyte...
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Lets take a trip back in time. Back in roughly 1985, I bought a 20 MB (yes, thats megabytes) hard drive for my Compaq Portable. Yes, I owned an original Compaq Portable, which was portable in only the loosest way. It originally shipped with two 360 K...
Massive storage capacity; efficient power usage; low noise levels; excellent pricing.
Not as fast as 7,200RPM drives.
Western Digitals latest GreenPower drive takes hard drive capacities to unparalleled levels, but still offers good performance and affordability.PCMark Vantage Disk...
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itp.net Updated:
2013-09-10 01:26:42
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Western Digital’s desktop hard drive line consists of the Caviar Black, Caviar Blue and, last but not least, the Caviar Green. Whereas the ‘Black’ is designed for top performance and the ‘Blue’ to balance performance, reliability and value, the ‘Green’...
If you’re looking to add storage and reduce your PC’s power consumption, this is the drive to buy...
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Usually, green hardware means youre giving up performance in order to cut back on power consumption. But Western Digitals second-generation...
Finally, there is some hard proof that green products really can make a difference without throwing performance overboard. Western Digital’s first-generation environmentally-friendly hard drive, called the Caviar GP, introduced rather small benefits...
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Western Digital The economy is crazy, and everyone is trying their best to make products "green" for our use. All of us can do our part, even hard drives are now green. Western Digital, a long-time hard drive manufacturer, releases their 1TB Green...
Its a shame for Western Digital to tell the public this drive isnt a "performance drive." With seek times averaging the same as most 300-500GB drives out there, and an average read speed close to those drives as well, the Caviar Green 1TB drive seem...
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Western Digital has long been a performance leader in the hard drive world. That made it especially odd when the company debuted its first terabyte in the \"GreenPower\" Caviar GP. Despite what enthusiasts might have hoped, GreenPower didnt mean \"Hulk s...
Adding 333GB platters and another 16MB of cache to the Caviar Green improves the drive on two fronts. As weve seen, the latest Green is generally faster than its 250GB/platter predecessor, no doubt thanks to its higher areal density. This attribute al...
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