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Testseek.com have collected 82 expert reviews of the Western Digital Caviar Green Series SATA300 WD-EADS and the average rating is 81%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Western Digital Caviar Green Series SATA300 WD-EADS .
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The editors liked

  • Massive storage capacity
  • Efficient power usage
  • Low noise levels
  • Excellent pricing.
  • Largest capacity drive currently available
  • Big doesn't mean slow
  • Energy efficient
  • Runs cool and quiet
  • Highestcapacity consumer drive on the market. Low power consumption. Quiet.
  • Massive drive packs 2TB of storage

The editors didn't like

  • Not as fast as 7
  • 200RPM drives.
  • High price tag
  • Lots of data to be lost with one drive failure!
  • Not particularly fast
  • The extra 500GB costs more than $100.
  • Pricey
  • Despite a competitive cost per gigabyte

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  Published: 2010-09-21, review by: Behardware.com

  • Abstract:  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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  Published: 2010-04-16, review by: hothardware.com

  • Abstract:  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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  Published: 2010-03-08, review by: xbitlabs.com

  • 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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  Published: 2010-01-14, review by: xbitlabs.com

  • Abstract:  Western Digital’s HDDs get all of our praise. They are excellent in server tests, win PCMark, perform nicely under multithreaded loads, and rout their opponents in the defragmentation and WinRAR tests.

 
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  Published: 2009-12-29, review by: gamepyre.com

  • 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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  Published: 2009-12-09, review by: silentpcreview.com

  • 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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  Published: 2009-11-03, review by: 3dGameMan.com

  • Abstract:  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 year warranty. Watch the video to find out more...

 
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  Published: 2009-10-25, review by: Behardware.com

  • Abstract:  After this review of two of the 2 TB drives currently available, the Western Digital comes out on top. Sure, with 5900 rpm, the Barracuda LP does give faster performances at times, but this is not systematic, especially with better NCQ management from Western Digital..

 
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  Published: 2009-09-30, review by: hardwaresecrets.com

  • Abstract:  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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  Published: 2009-09-26, review by: barefeats.com

  • Abstract:  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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