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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Western Digital AV-GP 2 TB SATA II Intellipower 64 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Internal Hard Drive - WD20EURS

Power-conserving WD AV-GP hard drives are based on the WD GreenPower Technology platform designed to deliver power savings as the primary attribute. These SATA drive are equipped with IntelliPower technology, fine-tuned balance of spin speed, transfer rate, and caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance. With power reduction of up to 40 percent, they deliver cool and quiet operation and reliability that is perfect for audio video applications such as PVRs, DVRs, set-top boxes (STBs) as well as surveillance video recording.

Size: 2 TB Brand: Western Digital Model: WD20EURS Original language: English Number of items: 1 Dimensions: 3.00" h x 6.75" w x 7.50" l, 1.20 pounds Hard Disk: 2TB Power-conserving WD AV-GP drives offer significant power savings and thermally optimized operation. This results in lower cost of ownership and unsurpassed reliability for PVR/DVR, IPTV boxes and media server manufacturers. 2TB capacity holds up to 400,000 digital photos, 500,000 MP3 files, and 240 hours of HD video. SilkStream Optimized for smooth, continuous digital video playback of up to twelve simultaneous HD streams. SilkStream is compatible with the ATA streaming command set so CE customers can use standard streaming management & error recovery options. 3 Year limited warranty.

Most helpful customer reviews 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. WD20EURS - ONLY USE DVR's or Security Camera's Etc. By Kelly Owens this drive is amazing! ive got 1 in my tivo Premiem HD and wow is it fast and good! also have 2 in the Security Camera dvr setup again its not missed a beat!BUT i must warn you now DO NOT USE THIS IN A COMPUTER YOU WILL STORE DATA ON IE DOCUMENTS ETC!!!!! THE REASON FOR THIS IS BELOWThe A/V drives ignore errors, the normal drives will do an error recovery to attempt to get back any data from the platter.When recording video (security cameras etc) you want an A/V drive that will just record whatever you throw at it, and keep going even if it misses a byte or two. An error in a couple of bytes just causes a minor blip in the video stream, but the rest won't stop. On a normal drive it could go into an error recovery mode and stop recording for 10-30 seconds - and this is much worse for security.However if you store documents, a single byte error could corrupt megabytes or even gigabytes of important data.Which you choose depends on your purpose.. but for DVR's, CCTV's Etc ie if its only going to have video on it then this is the kiddie you need! 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Perfect TiVo Upgrade HDD By Bryan in PHX Upgraded Stock OEM 320GB TiVo Premiere HDD using jmfs Live CD to Copy-Expand-Supersize to this 2TB WD20EURS AV-GP HDD. Process took about 2hrs to copy the original HDD. Replaced HDD and Rebooted TiVo. Capacity is now 317HRS HD. Perfect Upgrade.Runs Cool and Silent, TiVo reports Temps between 38°C - 44°C 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Great Quiet Drive By W. Frank Perfect for its purpose. Large 64 Meg Cache, and runs quiet. Does not run as cool as WD states. Didn't like AntOnline's amateur packaging in bubble wrap rather than protective case first. See all 4 customer reviews...

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