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WD 4TB Green Internal HDD 5400RPM WD40EZRX $139.99USD+Shipping Approx $160AUD Delivered @ Amazon

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Product Features
WD 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.
4 TB capacity holds up to 800,000 digital photos, 1,000,000 MP3 files, and 300 hours of HD video.
2 year limited warranty.
Package includes a hard drive only - no screws, cables, manuals included. Please purchase mounting hardware and cables separately if necessary.
Hard Drive
Size: 4 TB
Type: Serial ATA-600
Cases and Expandability
Size (LWH): 5.8 inches, 4 inches, 1 inches

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  • jv on 04/06/2014 - 18:48
    -2

    Approx $160AUD Delivered

    How much does it cost to buy here?

    • mudkipz on 04/06/2014 - 18:51
      +1

      $185 from MSY.

      From what I've heard these drives are only really worthwhile for cheap storage only. Not great for games, etc. Anyone confirm?

      • MrNuclear on 04/06/2014 - 18:57
        +2

        I've had 4 of the 3TB greens running in a Synology NAS 24/7 for just over 2 years and not one hiccup. Can't speak for gaming, but for a media server they are outstanding.

      • smurfinaus on 04/06/2014 - 19:44

        WD Green drives are really only meant for storage. Blue for average use and Black Caviar ones for those who want faster access (gaming etc..)

      • zuccs on 04/06/2014 - 21:50

        Once your game has loaded, the hard drive is not your performance bottleneck.

        • samfisher5986 on 05/06/2014 - 10:45
          -1

          This isn't true, there are plenty of games that rely on frequent HDD access.

          These games are generally considered unoptimised, but that isn't relevant, you need an SSD for games these days.

      • furythree on 04/06/2014 - 22:53

        true but you should see the benchmarks on these green drives. blow your fricken mind for a mechanical "eco" drive

    • Its4me on 04/06/2014 - 18:52

      How much does it cost to buy here?

      http://staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=WD40EZRX

  • Owler on 04/06/2014 - 18:58

    Also, interestingly $/gb for the 4gb is damn close to the 3gb now. (2-3% storage premium for the larger drive)

  • O15 on 04/06/2014 - 19:13

    Isn't really much of a deal, but the drive seem pretty good.

    Got two of these in my HTPC. About 110 days total power on, haven't given me any trouble yet.

  • blahman on 04/06/2014 - 19:16
    -4

    Didn't know that 5400RPM drives are still being manufactured

    • scrimshaw on 04/06/2014 - 19:35
      +4

      5400rpm drives generate less heat and have less noise. There is a demand for these.

  • antler on 04/06/2014 - 21:10
    +2

    Just change the head parking settings on the green drives using WDIdle or idle3-tools so that they behave the same way as WD Reds.

    • Click_It on 05/06/2014 - 05:53
      +3

      ^^ This ^^

      I've been doing some research for the last 2 hours as I'm close to pulling the trigger on a Synology NAS and buying 7 HDDs. Green or Red?…

      The problem with Green is they have a fundamental flaw which WD market as a "feature" to save power (Intellipark) which makes the drive park its heads 8 seconds after no activity is detected.

      What's bad about that? Well the drive is generally rated to only 250-350k cycles and some people have reported exceeding 250k in a single year! So that means it could burn out in 12-18 months, for no reason other than it's "feature" to save power.

      The WD Reds don't do this and don't suffer the same fate. But many believe (I'm not sure if true) the only difference between GREEN/RED is that feature is absent on RED and TLER (error recovery) is added to RED - basically saying both drives are identical, separated only by firmware versions. Sounds feasible but who knows.

      Anyhow the solution? Run WDIdle3 as antler mentioned, you can then disable completely the 8 second park OR change it to as high as 300 (recommended). Disabling would mean your drive never parks and that can't be good for longevity either. An excellent review I'm about to link showed that doing this reduced his park cycles to 4k over 3.5 years, a MASSIVE difference.

      http://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/hacking-wd-green…

      Since most of the green failures relate to high cycle numbers, I'm inclined to believe what this guy says. Please note I haven't done any of this myself yet but do plan to on said 7 HDD purchase in near future!

      EDIT: Closer to home (whirlpool) is this discussion (and many others if you look)
      http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1367904

      • Click_It on 05/06/2014 - 11:14

        Furthermore to the previous post, I've found out that disabling completely most likely keeps it on but forces it to 62 minutes. But 300 sec (5 min) is perfectly fine, people are getting <1000 LCC count per year with this.

        I just checked a WD Blue 2.5" HDD I have, it's over 800,000 LCC count. So probably living on borrowed time with that one now.

        Another problem with extremely high LCC count is, WD commonly refuse the warranty if yours goes in dead with a high LCC even within warranty period.

  • phobaphobic on 05/06/2014 - 10:04
    +1

    These things don't last very long.

    • kipps on 05/06/2014 - 11:12

      Can you please clarify your comment. The WD 4TB drives haven't been out that long to form this opinion?

      There are strong opinions from various posters about WD/Seagate/Samsung/etc.

      I have no great preference for any particular brand, generally electing for the cheaper drives each time and use rsync for regular backup. Also run servers on decent UPSes to reduce failures resultant from power supplies. Recent drives include WD Greens, a few Seagate Greens, Seagate Barracudas, and Samsung for storage.

      I have yet to experience any serious drive failures in the last five or so years, yet I repeatedly read other commentators saying that the higher capacity drives now on the market are apparently less reliable. My anecdotal experience, while not statistically significant, is to the contrary.

      • Click_It on 05/06/2014 - 11:19

        See mine and antlers post above. There are cases of the WD Greens failing before their time but there is also a very clear reason why it is happening in a vast majority of cases, and it can be fixed.

        FWIW I have 5 WD Green 2TB drives which I have never applied the above fix to, and no failures yet. Touch wood.

        Typical "WD sucks" style comments are as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike. All brands have their failures, it's about increasing your odds with the best knowledge available.

        EDIT: Should you have to mod a HDD to make it reliable? Absolutely not! Buying the RED will avoid this hassle, or save a chunk of change (OzBargain style) and fix it for free is even better.

        • kipps on 05/06/2014 - 15:11

          I'm aware of the LCC and wdidle hacks to stop the 8 second idle. It just seems incredibly odd that WD would continue producing these green drives if the idle times are causing early drive failures. It seems much too early to be drawing conclusions about 4TB WD Green drives to assume that they will suffer the same fate as early WD Greens?

        • Click_It on 05/06/2014 - 21:32

          I've had 1 and 2TB Greens in my fileserver (never changed any LCC) and had zero failures over the years. I also had Samsung EcoGreens 1 and 2TB, only 1 of those failed. I guess I've been pretty lucky, I don't think my experience is the typical one.

          EDIT: My earlier LCC comment was to phobaphobic not yourself, I figured you already knew but was shedding some light on the situation for him.

        • phobaphobic on 26/06/2014 - 23:14

          Well it's also about all the failures that have been popping up all around the internet since they were released…

          1 2 3 4

          Without a hack (disabling intellipark), they lead a rather short lifespan. I've had three of mine fail just recently.

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