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| Brand: | Western Digital |
| Item Height : | 25 millimetres |
| Item Width: | 10.2 centimetres |
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| Hard Drive Size: | 2000 GB |
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| Wattage: | 3.7 watts |
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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.
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64MB Cache, 5400RPM
In Verwendung mit: 34943 - Western Digital WD Caviar Green 2TB 64MB Cache
In Verwendung mit: 34946 - Western Digital WD Caviar Green 2TB 64MB Cache
In Verwendung mit: DS211%2b - Western Digital WD Caviar Green 2TB 64MB Cache
In Verwendung mit: 34943 - Western Digital WD Caviar Green 2TB 64MB Cache
In Verwendung mit: 34946 - Western Digital WD Caviar Green 2TB 64MB Cache
In Verwendung mit: DS211%2b - Western Digital WD Caviar Green 2TB 64MB Cache
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134 of 138 people found the following review helpful
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I bought a pair of these to go in my NAS, but was unpleasantly surprised to notice they suffer from a 'Load Cycle Count' problem - which is fairly well publicised on the net I later found out. For those who haven't followed this, the WD Green disks implement a power saving feature where they ship the heads of the drive if the drive has been inactive for a few seconds. Linux-based NAS systems (which is most of them) write out small fragments of data every minute or so, which means the drive has to unship the drive head. You can query your drive's LLC through S.M.A.R.T. and see it ticking up by about 1000 a day.
The drives are specc'ed to a max lifetime LLC of 300k, so you can see where this is heading (groan). It's very poor that there hasn't been a fix for this straight off the bat after 3-4 months since it was first noticed, other than WD telling people to attach the drives to a windows pc and run wdidle.exe to 'lessen' the problem (this reduced the problem by about half).
Kinda wishing I'd bought Seagate Barracuda's instead.
The drives are specc'ed to a max lifetime LLC of 300k, so you can see where this is heading (groan). It's very poor that there hasn't been a fix for this straight off the bat after 3-4 months since it was first noticed, other than WD telling people to attach the drives to a windows pc and run wdidle.exe to 'lessen' the problem (this reduced the problem by about half).
Kinda wishing I'd bought Seagate Barracuda's instead.
46 of 50 people found the following review helpful
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If you install this as a second hard drive as I did in later versions of Windows or XP Professional a pop up will probably appear suggesting it is set up as a Dynamic Volume. I accepted this suggesion during installation.
This is different to a normal Simple Volume that can be partioned into different Drive Numbers. A Dynamic Volume works differently and will not accept partioning by Windows or Third Party software.
Also my Acronis TrueImage software would not backup to a Dynamic Volume if I wanted to recover my sytem from an emergency boot up CD which is often the most likely eventuality.
All attempts to convert it from a Dynamic Volume to a Simple Volume through Windows using Disk Management were "greyed out" as unavailable actions. Partition Commander 11 would not work on a Dynamic Volume either.
The only way I could delete the Dynamic Volume was to use an excellent Freeware utility ISO file called Parted Magic which when put on a CD enabled me to boot into Linux and delete it before booting back into Windows and mounting it as a Simple Volume which can be partioned.
I hope this saves you a day and half that I spent resolving it.
This is different to a normal Simple Volume that can be partioned into different Drive Numbers. A Dynamic Volume works differently and will not accept partioning by Windows or Third Party software.
Also my Acronis TrueImage software would not backup to a Dynamic Volume if I wanted to recover my sytem from an emergency boot up CD which is often the most likely eventuality.
All attempts to convert it from a Dynamic Volume to a Simple Volume through Windows using Disk Management were "greyed out" as unavailable actions. Partition Commander 11 would not work on a Dynamic Volume either.
The only way I could delete the Dynamic Volume was to use an excellent Freeware utility ISO file called Parted Magic which when put on a CD enabled me to boot into Linux and delete it before booting back into Windows and mounting it as a Simple Volume which can be partioned.
I hope this saves you a day and half that I spent resolving it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
2TB internal disk at a really good price. I use it for archives and it does exactly what I wanted at a price I couldn't believe! Highly recommended.
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