Western Digital WD10EADS Caviar Green 1TB SATA 32MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM

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I just wanted large drive for storage. this drive fit the bill, I'm very happy with product, It's worked flawlessly so far and I like that it has power miser feature, don't care if it takes a moment to spin up, as its primarily used as back-up. My black carvers faster and thats what I work from any-way. Would buy again.

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Bought this for a 2nd drive for backup & storage. Works fine, silent, good price. Holds tons of por... I mean files!And it allows you to jump on the "Green" Bandwagon that gives the warm fuzzy feeling of saving the earth...much like a super hero must feel. This review was modfied by poster @ 02-03-10 10:38 AM

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For the price when I bought it, it was a great deal. This was bought for a friend who needed more space. It worked great, and my friend is enjoying 5x more space than he had before!

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Great drive, added 2 of these to my Acer Easy Store H340. Never had a problem as of yet. Streams video/music to my pop corn hours perfectly.

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This is a great drive for htpc or storage. Cheap cost/GB. I wouldn't recommend using this drive for the OS, as its not the quickest of drives. I would not use the drive in a raid config, as it tends to spin up and down on its own to conserve power, this may confuse some raid controllers.

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I got this as an addition to the DNS-323 I bought which already had a 500 gb drive. But after hearing terrible defects with Seagate drives, I added this baby to back up my stuff before my Seagate dies. It's also being used as a repository... web server and some dns server.

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They are not the fastest drives in the world, but thats perfectly fine for my application. I am using them in a NAS and for that they are perfect. Keeps the machine quiet, most of the noise I hear from the machine is the fans, the HD noise while read/writing is negligeable. I did not need the speed for my NAS since it really would not take full advantage of it, instead I wanted it to be quiet, and use as little power as possible. These drives are perfect for that.I bought them when they were on sale for 85$, making them well worth the money.Only issue I have, and its very slight, is that when the drives go to sleep it takes 3-4seconds for them to spin up when accessed.

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Received 2x WD10EADS-00M2B0 for Synology 210j NAS in RAID1. The firmware on the drives are set to park head 8secs of idle (intellipark). This caused problems with my NAS unable to hibernate. In fact it I could hear it park every 8secs. I used wdidle3 utility from WD to disable intellipark altogether now it is working great. My load/unload cycle count has dropped dramatically according to S.M.A.R.T. OVerall, these are still good drives once setup properly.

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This hard drive went in my Home Theatre PC , and so far it's been a great addition. I just needed massive storage for recording High Definition Video. I also wanted something that was going to be quiet, as currently you cannot hear the computer at all. This drive will "save" power but the hard drive is not normally the power hog in a system.

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Bought two of these: one for myself, and one for a floormate in my dorm. We both wanted a Portable drive for backups, and storage of music and videos, since we both brought laptops with us, only. I've put these hard drives into an Antex Veris MX-100. They run cool.

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Bought this for storage so the price was good and it is quiet. Could have been a bit faster but since I use it only for storage its more than effective. Would go with a WD Black edition if I were to use it for an OS drive.

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These are perfect for an NAS or an HTPC. I'm using two of these in a DNS-323 and they work great.Not so great for using in a regular PC as they take a few seconds to spin up and it can stall your system while they power up, but most people won't buy these for that use.

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This drive isn't the fastest 1TB out there, that award goes to the Samsung HD103UJ. This drive is absolutely silent and perfect for HTPC use. WD reliability is a huge plus.

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Replacing a pair of seagate 320GB HDDs with this has considerably lowered the noise level in my HTPC. Previously the hard drives were the loudest component in the system, but this drive I cannot hear over the fans. I've had no issue playing HD media files from the drive. I've had no issues whatsoever. It's quiet and has a decent amount of space, I'm very satisfied.

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I have this for a month now and it was quiet and plenty of volume to store things. i would recommend this to everything anyday

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I bought two of these for $79.99 each when it was on sale. For this price I would say it is a good buy. Work fine and very quite This review was modfied by poster @ 11-12-09 05:09 PM

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great drive, low power consumption and runs very cool, excellt in an htpc. can hear a click when drive is accessed after rebooting sometimes

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I switched to WD after a few Seagate 1TB drives went belly up. Either I've been lucky or WD makes some good drives. I haven't had a problem with them yet.

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just bought a second one. very quiet, reletively fast. have not had any issues with WD drives. great for the price

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I have eight of these hooked up in a RAID system to act as my file server. Saves on power and heat build up. Works great!

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I hear no clicking or anything, not sure what that is about, but some people say it, I see no slow downs either, it just seems like a great drive that works, sure not the faster drive ever made, but I don't care, I am using it for storage and playing movies, it is SILENT (well in an Antec 900, with all fans and then some more going), I dunno works, what more do u want, I thought about getting a Seagate, but some many reviews of them failing, and their stupidity with the firmware issue, why would anyone trust them again? buy WD, and buy a Green if its for storage (Black for OS...or really SSD for OS)

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Works great, now i can backup everything in 1 drive with out any problems. It is faster than my old 320 gb 5400 rpm drive

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I bought this disk to be used with my PVR and as soon as I'm watching an HD program and recorder another HD one, more than 2 glitches per minute appear. Really annoying.

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Originally bought 2 of these drives, and just bought a third drive to have a proper Raid 5 setup. Never had a problem with any of my WD drives. Very reliable, but good to know my data is better protected with Raid 5 configuration.

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Fast, cool and quiet one-platter design hard drive. Great price when on sale. Got it for a friend who needed, he's very happy with it.