• Western Digital Caviar Green 2.0 TB [Review]

    Western Digital Caviar Green 2.0 TB [Review]

    Jayesh Limaye, Mar 04, 2009 1450 hrs IST

    Gigantic storage capacity on a 3.5-inch form factor hard drive

    Good overall performance, silent, cool, perpendicular recording technology, huge capacity

    Expensive

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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 Digital with its unprecedented 2.0 TB hard drive.

Even as solid state storage is told to be the storage standard to look out for, we have the predominant storage standard with towering capacities and plummeting prices. The WD Caviar Green WD20EADS that we review today has a huge 2.0 TB capacity and the green moniker means that it is tuned to consume less power and is therefore energy efficient. Would that affect the performance in any way? We'll find that out as we put it through our test suite. Read on.


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(6) Comments
Geek
,Delhi, on Mar 06, 2009 07:30 PM
this is certainly a one of the more informative hard drive reviews
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aniket
,mumbai, on Mar 06, 2009 02:03 AM
hey guys when you test the hardware please post the specs of the configuration as well so that we know what hardware config you have used.
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naveenchaudhary
,meerut, on Mar 04, 2009 06:28 PM
everything is good other than response time, not good for primary hard drive or boot drive. can be used as a backup drive or other installations. raid0 is a costly affair with this drive. and who needs such capacity of drive, even 1TB is more than sufficient for video editing studios. well. it was just a review, not endorsement....
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northpole
,Bangalore, on Mar 04, 2009 05:53 PM
Fast and bit slow!!!?? Mr. Jayesh Limaye, have some sense, for gods sake. Techtree, with increasing dumb and shoddy content on your site, it wont be long when the Internet community will DDoS your website and beat it do death once for all.
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WilderNess
,Pune, on Mar 04, 2009 04:32 PM
Hi Jayesh, The first line (pros) of the review says - Fast, silent, cool, The second line (cons) - a bit slow. Cant be fast and slow at the same time
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Joshi
,New Delhi, on Mar 04, 2009 04:59 PM
Exactly what i was going to point out... Techtree is oxymoron personified.
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