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Western Digital 2 TB AV-GP SATA Intellipower 32 MB Cache Bulk/OEM AV Hard Drive WD20EVDS
WESTERN DIGITAL WD20EVDS Hard Drive - AV GP 2TB Internal. Power-conserving WD AV-GP SATA hard drives take advantage of WD GreenPower Technology to meet the extreme requirements of demanding audio and video environments. With power reduction of up to 40%, they deliver cool and quiet operation and reliability perfect for audio video applications such as PVRs, DVRs, set-top boxes (STBs) as well as surveillance video recording.. Part Numbers Variations: WD20EVDS, 718037748740
Lowest Used Price: USD 112.99
Lowest New Price: USD 141.99
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.
Great Drive
I have been using this AV hard drive for over a month. It's very quiet with no video artifacts and runs very cool.
