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Western Digital WD10EARS 3.5" 1TB 64MB SATAII Hard Drive $89

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Western Digital WD10EARS 3.5" 1TB 64MB SATAII Hard Drive $89
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kkk on 19/03/2010 - 14:18 megaware.com.au (1031 clicks)

As hard drive capacities increase, the power required to runthose drives increases as well. WD Caviar Green makes it possiblefor energy-conscious customers to build systems with highercapacities and the right balance of system performance, ensuredreliability, and energy conservation.

Key Features

Advanced Format - Advanced Formatting optimizeshard drives to take advantage of the capabilities of neweroperating systems.

Reduced power consumption - By adjusting therotational speed, using bigger data buffers, parking the drive'shead, and optimizing how the drive seeks and caches data we havereduced the power consumption by up to 38 percent.

Helps enable eco-friendly PCs - WD Caviar Greendrives yield average drive power savings of 4-5 watts overcompetitors' drives making it possible for our energy-consciouscustomers to build systems with higher capacities and the rightbalance of system performance, ensured reliability, and energyconservation. This power savings equates to reducing CO2 emissionby up to 13.8 kilograms per drive per year - the equivalent oftaking a car off the road for 3 days each year*. By usingenvironmentally-conscious PCs with our WD Caviar Green drives onboard, large organizations with many desktop computers can minimizetheir carbon footprint and save real money on electricitycosts.

*Assumes that a car produces 1.60 CO2 pounds perKwatt/hours/year. Calculation of automobile emissions depends onthe car's g/km emission levels and km/year of driving.

Perfect for green external drives - ExternalUSB, FireWire and Ethernet drives with WD Caviar Green drives onboard can save up to $14.00 per year in electricity costs dependingon the power-on-hours and power supply efficiency.

As an added benefit, external drive manufacturers can eliminatethe need for a fan in a high-capacity product with this drive, thecoolest and quietest in it's class.

IntelliPower™ - A fine-tuned balance ofspin speed, transfer rate and cache size designed to deliver bothsignificant power savings and solid performance.
IntelliSeek™ - Calculates optimum seekspeeds to lower power consumption, noise and vibration.
IntelliPark™ - Delivers lower powerconsumption by automatically unloading the heads during idle toreduce aerodynamic drag.
Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR) -Employ PMR technology to achieve even greater areal density.
StableTrac™ - The motor shaft is securedat both ends to reduce system-induced vibration and stabilizeplatters for accurate tracking, during read and writeoperations.

Ideal For

Environmentally conscious PCs requiring lower power consumption andcool, quiet operation.

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  • matrix-neo on 19/03/2010 - 14:35
    +5

    unfortunately, when it comes to WD, Green=slow! just to save like 3 watts power!
    i'd rather buy a faster drive and save more power by turning off the lights/air con/heater etc

    • Turd on 19/03/2010 - 14:39
      +3

      Good for storage drives but.

      • mobius on 19/03/2010 - 14:48

        -ne what about all the c02!

    • wisc on 19/03/2010 - 15:00

      add to that if you access your data fast it doesn't need to spin as long saving power!

    • kkk on 19/03/2010 - 15:27
      +1

      Ratpor or SSD for your system and program, Green drive for storage

      • furythree on 20/03/2010 - 01:04
        +1

        no just ssd
        raptors eat so much power and noisy as hell

    • shandawgg on 19/03/2010 - 16:35

      lol

    • [Deactivated] on 19/03/2010 - 22:54

      The stupid green thing isn't thought about properly in many circumstances, whether it be recycling, these low consumption toilets and computers or whatever.
      What people need to think about is a balance, not this hippy BS. Efficiency as well as consumption at the same time needs to be thought about.
      In the case of these HDD's, its not worth sacrificing that huge amount of efficiency for such a low amount of energy savings.

  • Balls on 19/03/2010 - 15:04
    +5

    i dont know man, maybe i should take public transport instead of buying a hard drive.

  • nowlan on 19/03/2010 - 15:22

    $93 on staticice.

    where is a megawAre?

  • MrGareth on 19/03/2010 - 15:25

    I just bought one of these same drives for $96 from MSY yesterday - they do make good storage drives. I know people say they're slow (since they run at 5,400rpm or whatever), but they use two 500Gb platters and with a density that high, data is read off very quickly.

  • V1p3r on 19/03/2010 - 15:30

    These drives are crap.
    Only use for storage as people have said.

    They park themselves after 10s of inactivity. If you run an OS on them, be it XP or Linux, the drive will constantly be parking/resuming.

    I bought two of these for a server (after not thinking too much about it) and got nearly 100,000 parks on the OS drive after 2-3 weeks. Usual life cycle of the drive is 1,500,000 or something.
    File buffering was horrible too as the drive would read its 64mb cache, park, then read the next 64mb. Totally unacceptable.

    With the drives used as just data storage it is much better.. but still not idea.
    Stay away from IMO.

    • furythree on 20/03/2010 - 01:05
      +1

      its not intended for OSes, just storage

  • fryboy on 19/03/2010 - 15:58
    +2

    Allneeds have the Samsung Spinpoint F3 1Tb for $88 - about six billion times as fast as these, and cheaper :)

    • Turd on 19/03/2010 - 16:00
      -4

      I wouldnt trust Samsung. Dont they also make other things? TV? Laptops? lol

      • forkus on 19/03/2010 - 16:15

        Think it might be time to do some research on Samsung Drives, quite good.

        I have the F3 and its fantastic, benches faster than my previous WD Black Drive.

      • slowmo on 19/03/2010 - 17:23
        +1

        samsung is a huge manufacturer, go open up your favourite brand of electronics or white goods or car ECU and look inside and see whats written on the microchip.

        comments like this really amuses me.

      • manja on 19/03/2010 - 18:44
        +1

        Can you tell us what made you to make such a statement? I have got 4 F3 1TB drives and very happy with them.

        • [Deactivated] on 19/03/2010 - 22:58

          Probably because specialisation generally brings better products (In this case Seagate or WD), but not in all cases.

  • atlas on 19/03/2010 - 16:15

    So would you be able to stream and transcode 1080p mkv files over a network to a PS3 with these?

  • slowmo on 19/03/2010 - 17:30

    its just a cheap drive, nice to save power since i use it to store my photos and video works. pity the home networking and broadband isn't getting cheaper at the same rate harddisks go.

    NSW delivery is $13.00 though.
    Vic is $16.00…

  • matrix-neo on 19/03/2010 - 18:36
    +1

    @turd, so because they make lots of other goods, that automatically means samsung is no good?? go figure dude…

    i got a samsung 1tb 103SJ drive recently, double the speed of my last hdd! and speaking of power saving, benchmarks consistently show samsung drives run cooler temps than a lot of other makes, and cooler temp=longer life in general

    also, "As hard drive capacities increase, the power required to runthose drives increases as well" who writes this crud, the marketing dept for megaware/wd?
    typically, older drives have LESS dense disc platters so they need more of them, newer drives with perpendicular recording surfaces have HIGHER density date storage, so a newer 1TB drive would have for example two platters(each holding 500gb) instead of 4, that means four heads/actuators vs 8 for the older drive, plus more efficient motors, electronics etc meaning LESS power consumption with more storage!

  • TRS-80 on 19/03/2010 - 23:26

    This is a 4k sector drive - if you're going to use it with Windows XP or Linux you need to be careful when formatting to get the best performance: https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_4_KiB_sector_issue…

  • Trance N Dance on 19/03/2010 - 23:27
    +1

    u want power savings
    TURN YOUR COMPUTER OFF!!!

    • [Deactivated] on 20/03/2010 - 00:18

      u want power savings?
      TURN OF EVERYTHING, START RIDING A BICYCLE, STOP ALL ELECTRICITY AND LIVE IN THE STONE AGE!!!

      ;)

  • furythree on 20/03/2010 - 01:06

    btw megaware can be really cheap, but they dont respond to customer emails

  • Kranbone on 20/03/2010 - 02:36

    Great drive for storage, somewhat competitive price.

  • Meld on 20/03/2010 - 02:50
    +1

    I want a 2TB drive damnet Janet!

  • newguy on 20/03/2010 - 09:53

    Is it sold out or not?
    They are still on sale on their website today.

  • [Deactivated] on 22/03/2010 - 20:15

    For those interested, on Sat 3rd April at BigW (one day sale only), there will be a 1TB 3.5 on sale for $99. (save $50)

    • wisc on 23/03/2010 - 12:10

      Brand? external/oem?

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