Description
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As hard drive capacities increase, the power required to run those drives increases as well. WD Caviar Green drives make it possible for energy-conscious customers to build systems with higher capacities and the right balance of system performance, ensured reliability, and energy conservation.
Highlights of the Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB 5400RPM S300 32MB
- Reduced power consumption
- Helps enable eco-friendly PCs
- Cool and quiet
- Perfect for external drives
- IntelliPower - a fine-tuned balance of spin speed, transfer rate and caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance
- IntelliSeek - calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise and vibration
- Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR)
- StableTrac
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Reduced power consumption
WD has reduced power consumption by up to 40 percent compared to standard desktop drives with the combination of WD's IntelliSeek, NoTouch, and IntelliPower technologies. -
Helps enable eco-friendly PCs
WD Caviar Green drives yield an average drive power savings of 4-5 watts over standard desktop drives making it possible for the energy-conscious customers to build systems with higher capacities and the right balance of system performance, ensured reliability, and energy conservation. -
Cool and quiet
WD GreenPower Technology yields lower operating temperatures for increased reliability and low acoustics for ultra-quiet PCs and external drives. -
Massive capacity
The most available capacity for storage-intensive programs and space-hungry operating systems with plenty of room left over for photos, music, and video. -
Perfect for external drives
External drive manufacturers can eliminate the need for a fan in a high-capacity product with a WD Caviar Green drive, the coolest and quietest in its class.
Specifications
Summary
- Product Description
- WD Caviar Green WD20EADS - hard drive - 2 TB - SATA-300
- Type
- Hard drive - internal
- Form Factor
- 3.5" x 1/3H
- Dimensions (WxDxH)
- 10.2 cm x 14.7 cm x 2.6 cm
- Weight
- 0.73 kg
- Capacity
- 2 TB
- Interface Type
- Serial ATA-300
- Data Transfer Rate
- 300 MBps
- Spindle Speed
- 5400 rpm
- Buffer Size
- 32 MB
- Manufacturer Warranty
- 2 years warranty
Detail
General
- Device Type
- Hard drive - internal
- Width
- 10.2 cm
- Depth
- 14.7 cm
- Height
- 2.6 cm
- Weight
- 0.73 kg
Hard Drive
- Form Factor
- 3.5" x 1/3H
- Capacity
- 2 TB
- Interface Type
- Serial ATA-300
- Buffer Size
- 32 MB
- Features
- IntelliSeek, StableTrac, IntelliPower (5400-7200), Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR), NoTouch ramp load technology, GreenPower technology
- Compliant Standards
- S.M.A.R.T.
Performance
- Drive Transfer Rate
- 300 MBps (external)
- Internal Data Rate
- 100 MBps
- Spindle Speed
- 5400 rpm
Reliability
- Non-Recoverable Errors
- 1 per 10^15
- Start / Stop Cycles
- 300,000
Expansion / Connectivity
- Interfaces
- 1 x Serial ATA-300 - 7 pin Serial ATA
- Compatible Bays
- 1 x internal - 3.5" x 1/3H
Miscellaneous
- Compliant Standards
- RoHS
Manufacturer Warranty
- Service & Support
- 2 years warranty
- Service & Support Details
- Limited warranty - 2 years
Environmental Parameters
- Min Operating Temperature
- 0 °C
- Max Operating Temperature
- 60 °C
- Shock Tolerance
- 65 g @ 2ms half-sine pulse (operating) / 300 g @ 2ms half-sine pulse (non-operating)
- Vibration Tolerance
- 0.75 g @ 20-300 Hz (operating) / 4 g @ 20-500 Hz (non-operating)
- Sound Emission
- 25 dBA
Customer reviews
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Great Drive
Reviewed by Anonymous Review Posted 02/01/2010
You may be able to find more storage at a lower price, but this drive is quiet, reasonably cool and works great as a media drive or content store. Perhaps wouldn't recommend it for a system disk. Formatted size on NTFS came out at 1.81TB for me.
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Price is always at this level for top end drives
Reviewed by alexc. Review Posted 29/04/2009
Simon, top end hard drives always have price of £210+ GBP, you can't expect state of the art to cost you the same as mainsteam disks. It's value for money because (in our case) we don't need to buy another expensive server that will use cheaper disks, instead we will use more "expensive" disks but they work out great value because we keep using same server for longer. WDs 1.5 TB now out and they are excellent (we got plenty of those and they work well too - half price of 2 TB as well). The whole Western Digital Green line is superb - in 20 years I've never seen better hard drive.
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So far very good impression
Reviewed by alexc. Review Posted 30/03/2009
Bought 10 of those, used 4 so far and all seems well, even though there seems to be compatibility issue with Adaptec RAID controller - this apears the fault of Adaptec however, rather than WD.
It's not cheap for sure, however if you want to pack some serious storage these disks are the way to go.
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at this price?
Reviewed by Simon. Review Posted 22/04/2009
this is not far off the price for the new re4-gp 2tb, so why on earth would anyone want one of these for this price!
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