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Available in capacities up to 3TB, WD Caviar Green SATA hard drives reduce power consumption by up to 40% and offer best-in-class acoustics and operating temperature. Based on WD's exclusive GreenPower technology, these drives are designed to deliver power savings as the primary attribute. 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. They are ideal for PCs, external storage and other devices that require lower power consumption and cool, quiet operation.

Size: 2 TB Brand: Western Digital Model: WD20EARX Original language: English Dimensions: 1.00" h x 4.00" w x 5.80" l, 1.08 pounds Hard Disk: 2TB WD Caviar Green hard drives reduce power consumption by up to 40%. And offer best-in-class acoustics and operating temperature and 3rd generation SATA interface. 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. 2TB capacity holds up to 400,000 digital photos, 500,000 MP3 files, and 240 hours of HD video,3 year limited warranty 2TB capacity holds up to 400,000 digital photos, 500,000 MP3 files, and 240 hours of HD video. 3 year limited warranty IntelliPower - A fine-tuned balance of spin speed, transfer rate and caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance. Offers best-in-class acoustics and operating temperature and 3rd generation SATA interface. WD Caviar Green hard drives reduce power consumption by up to 40% WD Caviar Green hard drives reduce power consumption by up to 40% and offer best-in-class acoustics and operating temperature and 3rd generation SATA interface.

WD Caviar Green Hard Drives – Cool, quiet, . The WD Caviar Green desktop SATA hard drives give you the space you need to hold enormous amounts of software, photos and videos. These drives make it possible to build high capacity, cool and quiet systems, while delivering the right balance of system performance and energy conservation. Why you should choose WD Caviar Green: WD Caviar Green hard drives provide high capacity storage while using up to 40% less power than traditional 7200 RPM drives. In addition, these hard drives are quieter and cooler than traditional 7200 RPM drives. Cool and quiet. WD GreenPower Technology yields lower operating temperatures for increased reliability and low acoustics perfect for ultra-quiet PCs and external drives. Reduced power consumption. WD's IntelliPower technology delivers both significant power savings and solid performance. Additionally, WD Caviar Green drives consume less current during startup allowing lower peak loads on systems as they are booted. Massive capacity. Store up to 2 TB of photos, videos, music and files on a single drive. Features at a glance 2 TB of storage Reduced power consumption SATA 6 Gb/s interface WD GreenPower Technology 3-year limited warranty Ideal for: Adding lots of storage in desktop PCs or external drives and NAS devices Adding extra storage space for photos, videos and music Environmentally-conscious individuals seeking reduced power consumption Features: SATA 6 Gb/s interface - Twice the interface speed with backwards compatibility to legacy SATA standards. NoTouch ramp load technology - The recording head never touches the disk media ensuring significantly less wear to the recording head and media as well as better drive protection in transit. IntelliSeek - Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise and vibration. Advanced Format (AF) - Technology being adopted by WD and other drive manufacturers to continue growing hard drive capacities. New drives featuring AF are optimized for operation with Windows 7, Windows Vista and Mac OS X Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard. For older operating systems such as Windows XP, users must run the free WD Align software utility to achieve the full performance of the drive. Desktop / Consumer RAID environments - WD Caviar Green Hard Drives are tested and recommended for use in consumer-type RAID applications. (RAID-0 / RAID-1)* *Business Critical RAID Environments – WD Caviar Green Hard Drives are not recommended for and are not warranted for use in RAID environments utilizing Enterprise HBAs and/or expanders and in multi-bay chassis, as they are not designed for, nor tested in, these specific types of RAID applications. For all Business Critical RAID applications, please consider WD's Enterprise Hard Drives that are specifically designed with RAID-specific, time-limited error recovery (TLER), are tested extensively in 24x7 RAID applications, and include features like enhanced RAFF technology and thermal extended burn-in testing. Leading the way to green hard drives - WD led the industry in creating a new category of hard drives that use less power and help reduce the world's energy demands one computer user at a time. These drives consume significantly less power than standard drives spinning at 7200 RPM. All WD Caviar Green drives are lead and halogen free, resulting in less pollutants getting into our environment. Beyond the product level, WD's green initiative goes even further focusing on recycling and improving the cleanliness of the air, water and land in the locations surrounding WD facilities. Upgrading your drive is easy - WD Acronis TrueImage, available as a free download on the WD Support site, enables you to copy all your data to a new drive so you don't have to reinstall your operating system to get all the benefits of a new drive. Note: Bare drive does not include any cables or mounting hardware. The WD advantage - WD puts our products through extensive Functional Integrity Testing (F.I.T.) prior to any product launch. On average, each new product goes through 600,000 hours of testing. WD also has a detailed Knowledge Base with more than 1,000 helpful articles. You can also call toll-free support 7 days per week in the U.S. and Canada. See the WD Support site for full details. WD-certified packaging - All WD drives purchased from Amazon.com are shipped in WD-certified hard drive packaging. It is designed and fully tested to provide WD products with the highest of safety while in transit. With WD-certified packaging, you can rest assured that your WD hard drive will arrive safely, fully protected, in an , non-descript, easy-open package. Compatibility Works with Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000, Mac and Linux operating systems. You might also consider:   3.5-inch InternalComparison Chart WD Caviar Blue WD Caviar Green WD Caviar Black WD VelociRaptor Value and reliabilityfor every day computing. Cool, quiet, . Maximum performance for power computing. The fastest SATA hard drive on the planet.   Ideal for Family and business computing. Desktop PCs, external drives and NAS devices. Photo and video editing, andmaxed out gaming systems. Performance enthusiastsystems and workstations.   Capacity range 80 GB – 1 TB 320 GB – 3 TB 500 GB – 2 TB 150 GB – 600 GB   Interface SATA 6 Gb/sSATA 3 Gb/sPATA 100 MB/s SATA 6 Gb/sSATA 3 Gb/s SATA 6 Gb/sSATA 3 Gb/s SATA 6 Gb/s   Form Factor 3.5-inch 3.5-inch 3.5-inch 3.5-inch   Cache 8 MB – 32 MB 16 MB – 64 MB 32 MB – 64 MB 32 MB   Limited Warranty 3-year 3-year 5-year 5-year   Highest capacity         Highest performance         Photo Video editing      

Client more useful in 34 of 37 people found this review helpful. Large storage devices, but decreased the speed of Steve and I have tons of WD drives have been around for a while '(two 2TB' green 'units), so I decided to give this option with a half / half ratings they had. This unit is fantastic! Popped in my Dock eSATA is on and the windows Disk Management has seen the same thing all ~ 2.7tb. Initialized as you choose GPT, and then formatted. Windows has seen the entire partition, no hassle. To test the device, I did a low level format, so a disk check. When both came back fine, I copied all the files that I could fit on the disk, and then did another check disk. He came back fine, so I ran to see what I was disc field speed. When the disk was nearly full (~ 3 GB free), I was averaging around 30-40 Mbps. after I formatted and ran the test again, I have an average of ~ 60MBps. Compare that with a smaller hard drive and you will see that it is significantly slower (I drove tryouts for a full-WD 500GB drive that is about 5 years old and average 80 Mbps) is 30Mbps much speed for streaming movies which is what I use it for. This drive is not the best boot drive, but it makes a huge archive. Since I have only owned it for about a week now, I can not comment on long-term reliability, but I'll update if anything happens. Currently, I recommend this drive. 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Need space - Perfect need for speed, add a SSD ... By Drake Johnson This is a reliable, quiet, cool-running, big SATA III HD. I have this drive to WMC (Windows Media Center) PVR. It took a lot of space on your hard disk, but it must remain very small and really cool in one package. If the speed (like me) put a small SSD drives in your system for the operating system, use the WD Green drives for storage. Something to consider: The 25 ads 3TB WD Green drives use a little more power (heat) and a slightly faster transfer rate. Download the fact sheet for more information about Western Digital. In case you're trying to do the same, I mentioned my new media center built parts list. My build system (works great) (Photo included) - SilverStone Aluminum / Steel ATX HTPC Computer Case GD05B (Black) - Gigabyte GA-A75M-UD2H AMD (rev 1.0) Motherboard - AMD-3850 AMD Radeon HD 6550 APU A8 graphics 2.9GHz Socket FM1 100W Quad-Core - Kingston Technology HyperX 8 GB (2x4 GB DIMMs) DDR3 1600 MHz Dual Channel Kit (PC3 12800) - OCZ Agility 2 OCZSSD2-2AGTE60G 2.5 5 "60 GB MLC SATA II Solid State Drive - Western Digital Caviar Green Drive 2 TB SATA III - WD20EARX - Pioneer 12x Internal Blu-ray Disc / DVD / CD Writer BDR-206DBK - control remote control and infrared receiver AmuletDevices - - Antec (Neo HE650) (NeoPower 650) 650-Watt power supply - IOGEAR Laser Multimedia Keyboard with Trackball 2 of 2 people found this review helpful to an effective hard drive to Margaret Picky my 500 GB external hard drive died when I was very happy to do it . was surprised that I had to buy a new case for her because I had was so old that it was not compatible with the son of connection on this unit. I did not know until I tried to move on. Next, make sure have the right connections for this record - it was the third which is also called SATA SATA 6 Gbps (Gigbits per second, not gigabytes, which is abbreviated Go Go is not the difference is a factor of 8 ..) If this is confusing, then ask someone to help with the case on the right. It can be as hot as the old hard drive (which was made by Hitachi) and is very quiet and seems to work very well and is supposed to be faster and consume less electricity. I guess I do not get so hot that it comes to using less electricity, but I can not tell if it's fast or not. Honestly, it seems the same speed as my old hard drive was fast enough not to cause.