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Western Digital Caviar Green 1Tb WD10EADS – Benchmark
December 17th, 2009 / 3 Comments » / by AF8AB
I recently bought a Western Digital Caviar Green 1Tb Hard Drive with 32Mb Cache [Model: WD10EADS] – Its a low power consuming hard drive. I got this specific model because The Caviar Black was more expensive and Seagate Barracuda is not a very reliable option (though fast). I am going to use it for normal Backup so I am good to go.
I used HD Tach and HD Tune Pro to benchmark this Hard Drive. I have also included test results of some other drives for comparison that include another WD 320Gb HDD, An 8Gb Corsair USB and a 320Gb laptop drive (Built by Toshiba) that came with my HP Pavilion dv6.
Operating at 37° C WD10EADS is cooler and silent than any other drive in 2009
It gave me very satisfactory and constant transfer rates ~60Mb/s and ~55Mb/s in transferring data over HDD to HDD and over 1Gb/s LAN respectively. Its around 80% used.
WD10EADS is the least power consuming HD ever built. Tomshardware Power requirement test results.
Idle Power Requirement: 2.91Watts
Power Requirement Video: 4.28Watts
Here are my benchmark Results.
Write speed going above 80Mb/s even though the drive is loaded with data = EXCELLENT! for an Eco Drive.
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