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Western Digital 1 TB AV-GP SATA OEM AV Hard Drive WD10EVDS
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.
Lowest Used Price: USD 67.99
Lowest New Price: USD 77.99
Great Drives
Have been running a pair of these for a month or so in a RAID 1 (Linux software RAID, by the way). They have worked very well and my read/write speeds to the RAID have been very good. As usual with hard drives, I only get a 903GB partition when formatted. Would definitely buy these again.
Good Hard Drive
Bought this 1 month ago. I installed the drive as a second hard drive in my desktop computer.
Installation was simple. I already had a spare SATA cable and spare power cable adapter. You will need these as they do not come with this "bare" drive.
The packaging by Amazon was terrible. A rather large cardboard box with the bare drive inside only protected from movement by 3 inflatable bubble bags. Not nearly enough protection. I'm sure the drive was thrown around inside the box during the delivery process. I was wondering if the drive was damaged but it worked fine. So, I guess this is a plus for the drive's toughness. Delivery took about a week.
It is quiet. I can barely hear it operating. My other drive is louder, and it is not overly loud either.
I purchased this drive, mostly, because of it's supposed durability. Time will tell.
The drive runs about 5 degrees C cooler than my 350G primary drive.
Transfer rates for my music and video collection from the 350G drive to this drive seemed fast enough.
This is a 1T drive but about 100G of this drive is unusable to me. So, you only have 900G capacity. I guess this is some type of Windows thing, but I have not tried to figure out if I can recover some of this 100G unusable space. 10% seems like a lot for this capacity size of drive.
I'll buy another for my backup computer when I need the capacity.
Excellent Choice to upgrade your iMac
I bought this to replace my original iMac hard-drive. This is not only much larger in capacity than my original iMac hard-drive (original was 350 GB in size) but also much faster. I got it installed at BestBuy for . This was one of the best upgrade choices I have made in a long time. Even better than the memory bump i gave my iMac from 2GB to 4 GB after buying "crucial" memory on amazon. I think the performance bump is higher in the hard-drive upgrade case.
Hope this helps!!
Prashant
Works for TiVo HD after a simple tweak
Paul's review inspired me to try using this drive for my TiVo HD. The wdidle3.exe program worked perfectly and I am now enjoying lots "free" TV. Drive is nearly as quiet as the original drive and is a whole lot quieter than the ATT U-Verse box I got rid of.
