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Cheap but Head parking every 8 seconds is an issue
I have 12 or 13 of these drives, bought when the prices were very low just before the Thai floods. If you buy one of these make sure you download and run the WDIDE3.exe from Western Digital to disable the 8 second default for head parking. The wear and tear this causes on the drive mercilessly shortens the life of the drive. Google it and you will find plenty of stories on this. Surprised no class action suit yet for this bad engineering decision. I suspect someone in marketing got their way ove...
WD25EZRX Western Digital Caviar Green 2.5 TB SATA III Intellipower 64 MB Cache Bare/OEM Desktop Drive review by Grant Corban "www.grantcorban. can be read at Amazon.Com |
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3.0 out of 5.0
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05/20/2012
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Works - disabled auto-park timer
I bought 2-3TB drives for my Synology NAS Synology DiskStation 2-Bay (Diskless) Network Attached Storage DS212j (White). I've only had the drives on for one day but after reading about all the drives that fail after a few months it seems the problem is the head parking itself every 8 seconds if no disk activity. The only reason it does this is to try to save power. Each park results in a load/unload cycle. Most modern drives are rated around 600,000 cycles. Depending on how your system uses...
WD25EZRX Western Digital Caviar Green 2.5 TB SATA III Intellipower 64 MB Cache Bare/OEM Desktop Drive review by Bert Mull can be read at Amazon.Com |
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5.0 out of 5.0
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06/23/2012
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Unreliable; silent data corruption; effective warranty below 1y.
For quite a long time I've been WD fan. I put WD drives in any computer I put my hands on. I've sinned, but I know better now...5 months ago I've bought 8 of those drives to exchange 7 1TB drives in my Linux server. The 1TB drives were (and are - I use them still) OK, I just run out of space. Since then I did not have a single week without some kind of failure. 3 drives are failing mechanically (almost 40% failure rate!), I have random intermittent read errors. I rolled up my sleeves...
WD25EZRX Western Digital Caviar Green 2.5 TB SATA III Intellipower 64 MB Cache Bare/OEM Desktop Drive review by Marcin Wolcendorf can be read at Amazon.Com |
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1.0 out of 5.0
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03/11/2012
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avoid their green line of drives - out of 7 drives, all have been replaced at least once
Unlike most of the positive reviews, I have owned a few of these drives for around 2 years now. For most of them, they seemed fine during the first few months. So in my mind any review where the drive is less than 3+ months old is not really valid.I have not had any of the green drives I own survive more than about a year or a year and half at most. Out of the 7 I now own, I have replaced all of them once. And I think I have to replace a replacement now as well.If you're willin...
WD25EZRX Western Digital Caviar Green 2.5 TB SATA III Intellipower 64 MB Cache Bare/OEM Desktop Drive review by Patrick Visniewski "Coffee Fan can be read at Amazon.Com |
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1.0 out of 5.0
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05/12/2012
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82%
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Great Drive...but hear this...
This review is from: Western Digital Caviar Green 1 TB SATA III Intellipower 64 MB Cache Bulk/OEM 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive Desktop Hard Drive - WD10EARX (Personal Computers) Due to the flooding in Thailand, which affects all HDDs except Samsungs, these drives are soon going to be selling for $30+ dollars above MSRP...on existing stock! NewEgg is already gouging all of their drives, up to $199 (MSRP is $169) for the 3Tb external...and they have eliminated free shipping on HDD...
WD25EZRX Western Digital Caviar Green 2.5 TB SATA III Intellipower 64 MB Cache Bare/OEM Desktop Drive review can be read at Amazon.Com |
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10/21/2011
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! Big error in this review ->"Great storage drive, but decreased speed"
It's revealing that in that persons' review that he says "When the drive was almost full (~3gb free), I was averaging around 30-40MBps". My god, I am amazed that so many people have bought into his method of testing, judgement call and approved of his review.Hard drives start slowing down when they reach about 60% fill of capacity. At this point you will not notice the reduction in speed.At about an 75% fill of capacity you may notice a reduction in speed. Many people wil...
WD25EZRX Western Digital Caviar Green 2.5 TB SATA III Intellipower 64 MB Cache Bare/OEM Desktop Drive review by mrwire can be read at Amazon.Com |
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03/08/2012
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There are better drives out there
This review is from: Western Digital Caviar Green 2 TB Desktop Hard Drive WD20EARX (Personal Computers) Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program First of all, I would not recommend this drive or any WD Caviar drives for a RAID setup. I initially tried to set these up in RAID 1 and ran into problems and slow access times. I contacted WD and they told me they are not designed for RAID and they don't guarantee them to work in RAID (appare...
WD25EZRX Western Digital Caviar Green 2.5 TB SATA III Intellipower 64 MB Cache Bare/OEM Desktop Drive review can be read at Amazon.Com |
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09/29/2011
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its ok
its not the best but its stills ok... too expensive for me... but its worth it... I recommend to buy a Solid state drive instead of these cause this hard drive isnt the best at all...
WD25EZRX Western Digital Caviar Green 2.5 TB SATA III Intellipower 64 MB Cache Bare/OEM Desktop Drive review by Roberto Tso can be read at Amazon.Com |
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04/29/2012
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Ordered 3 drives. 2 of them failed within 3 months.
Enough said. 2 drives out of three failed within 3 months. One of the drives replaced by WD, another to be replaced by Amazon. 3rd one is still up and running... All drives have been used in Synology NAS.
WD25EZRX Western Digital Caviar Green 2.5 TB SATA III Intellipower 64 MB Cache Bare/OEM Desktop Drive review by Upravdom can be read at Amazon.Com |
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08/09/2012
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87%
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Linux users beware...
As others have pointed out the earlier WD Green drives have had very poor reliability. I've had two 640GB WD Greens die within a month. Our current set is doing OK so far, but we aware of the IDLE3 timer. In an effort to be "green" these drives park their heads after 8 seconds of non-use. Fine, but if you are using them on a Linux system where the drives sync every 20 seconds, you can guess what happens. 3 head parks (Load Cycle Count for those who speak SMART) per minute. 1440 minutes/day...
WD25EZRX Western Digital Caviar Green 2.5 TB SATA III Intellipower 64 MB Cache Bare/OEM Desktop Drive review by Ken can be read at Amazon.Com |
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04/02/2012
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85%
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