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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.

WD10EADS

Write speed going above 80Mb/s even though the drive is loaded with data = EXCELLENT! for an Eco Drive.

WD3200KS

My 2.5 year old WD 320Gb Drive – I had two of them. 1 of them died . So I am not a big fan of this SABZTARD model – It took me days to recover my precious data from the dead disc. Anyway!

Overall, Its not a bad performer. It has 16Mb Cache and decent transfer speeds.

TOSHIBA 3252GSX 320Gb 2.5” HP Laptop dv6 HDD

2.5” Mobile Drive with 5400rpm is not designed for ultra performance. But this drive is giving me 50Mb/s+ transfer speeds which is just awesome ♥

Corsair Voyager 8Gb Flash Drive

I use this 8Gb flash drives everywhere, In the car, In lan parties, In freelance meetings, as a backup drive etc. The only thing I hate about it is; I lost its rubber cap a long time ago :/ – ZeeMAN lost his one too. _prOxima is still taking good care of his one – So the one he’s got is still water proof.

Its faster than Kingston, My Flash, Verbatim & Sony’s USB drives that I have used.

That’s all folks.

p.s: I had no time to research when i bought the 1Tb HD – I see in benchmarks on Toms hardware and other review websites that Seagate Barracuda is quite faster than WD Caviar Green 10EADS. But again, I see SO MANY people ranting about their dead Seagate drives and recommending WD as its reliable.

p.s.s: Alienware uses WD drives in its custom build PCs.

p.s.s.s: HDD are not the reliable Data Storage Medium, NOTHING IS (as for now); 2Tb/Drive is maximum limit in a SATA II disc and these drives have physical components (read:Locomotives). SSDs are expensive and they have a certain life span plus they’re not high capacity. The ultimate data storage device is yet to be invented. Till then, CIAO!

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