WD Caviar GP 1TB Hard Drive

Great drive for the money

Posted Mar 26, 2008 - Western Digital has really hit a home run with this drive. It's by far the cheapest 1TB drive on the market (typically $25-$75 than the others), it's very quiet, and out of the 6 I've purchased in the last two months NONE have had any problems. It also consumes less power, meaning it produces less heat. It does so through a variety of technologies but also (mainly) because the drive spins slower than competitors. But don't let this fact dissuade you, as the drive 1) is still very fast 2) the speed won't make any difference if you are putting it an external enclosure (USB/FireWire become the bottlenecks there) and 3) the penalty will only be noticed [maybe] if you are running it in a RAID where every millisecond of performance matters. A great buy!

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1TB at a good price

Posted May 7, 2008 - Drive was easy to set up and runs quiet and cool at 5400 rpm. Green drive saves on power and runs perfectly in the NAS box in RAID 1 config with a small tradeoff in performance (not your best option for a boot drive).

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No problems but make sure you cool it!

Posted 1 year ago - I loaded my harddrive into an Antec MX-1 active cooled enclosure and backed up all of my data onto it. I think it would have been running pretty hot if I didn't have it in the active-cooled enclosure. Also, not using the SATA connection makes the data transfer a bit slow (through USB).

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Storage Solution.

Posted Oct 25, 2007 - I\'m playing large HD (.mkv) media files in Vista without a problem. It\'s nice and quiet on my media center pc. I don\'t use it for anything else. I\'m no hard drive expert, but as far as looking for a nice, big, quiet drive to shove into the 3.5 spot in your case, it\'s a beauty. after losing many files thanks to externals, I\'m happy to put something in that\'s a little safer and efficient. apparently it saves energy by only moving the rpm\'s up to the level they need to be. averages, i read, are about 5400, but i guess it can max at 7200 if need be. i wouldn\'t suggest for gaming performance, maybe not even to run an os on, but as far as storage goes, i\'m in love.

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Solid Product

Posted 1 year ago - Western Digital again delivers a good quality product. Many people may complain about the performance of these drives though. It's a variable speed drive which many people may not like for their main desktop drive. These drives are the future, so get used too it. Most drives made in the past few years have the ability to be slowed down for heat/energy/sound issues. It's just that the option wasn't easily adjustable by consumers. (Google "Automatic Acoustic Management") I purchased four of these for use in a Media File Server which will be running 24/7. The reduced power usage (up to almost 50% over other drives) and the reduction in heat that goes with it is what encouraged me to purchase these. Compare the energy consumption on WD's site and you'll see these drives use about the same amount of power as a 120-250GB drive. If you are interested in speed, you might consider some other product.

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WD Caviar GP 1TB Hard Drive (Serial ATA-300, 16MB

Posted Mar 27, 2008 - Very good value for a money paid.As it was promiced by site, it is a new, factory sealed 1 Tb internal hard drive bundled with full back up software.I hope it will work the way it was described.

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Excellent drive

Posted 1 year ago - This is a great drive and will provide plenty of storage for my needs for the time being. I have it in an Antex MX1 enclosure so in terms of overheating, the enclosure is doing a good job 'dissipating' the heat. I haven't been able to tell of any degraded performance either. I've already filled out 75% of the drive!

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