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Western Digital Caviar Green WD15EARS
7.4 out of 10

Western Digital Caviar Green WD15EARS

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Reviews and Problems with Western Digital Caviar Green WD15EARS

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Overall 6
6.0

Good drive but had factory issue

Hayk Martirosyan "timewind", Amazon
10 January 2013
  • Summary: Drive itself was very good. But it has factory problem. I lost a lot of data 3 times trying to recover. Recovered most of data but it was horrible.
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Overall 6
6.0

Meh, need to disable idling

Bond, Amazon
11 October 2011
  • Summary: You have to use the wdidle3 utility to disable the 8s idle timer. It's a bit of a pain (DOS boot), but a good idea even if you're not putting them in RAID, as it will...
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Overall 6
6.0

Meh, need to disable idling

Western Digital Technical Support, Amazon
11 October 2011
  • Summary: You have to use the wdidle3 utility to disable the 8s idle timer. It's a bit of a pain (DOS boot), but a good idea even if you're not putting them in RAID, as it will...
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Overall 6
6.0

COULD BE BETTER

SIR CHARLES, Amazon
22 August 2011
  • Summary: When I had my first order returned, little did I know that the replacement was about the same as the one I had returned.
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Overall 6
6.0

2 TB version is not reliable

compnut, Amazon
17 August 2011
  • Summary: I own a bunch of Western Digital hard drives, because they are quiet, fast. I also own some Seagate one. I never had a crash in either Western Digital or Seagate.
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Overall 6
6.0

Great drive until it fails...

C. Clark, Amazon
25 February 2011
  • Summary: I ordered two of these drives to replace my tiny (by comparison) 250GB/160GB combination in my old PowerMac.
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Overall 6
6.0

It's pretty good, not great because its green

Allen Keion, Amazon
20 January 2011
  • Summary: #1 These are barebone drives with nothing on it. There's also no instruction that comes with the drive on how to set it up or format it.
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Overall 6
6.0

SECTOR SIZE = NOT GOOD FOR NAS

C. Slaw "the fanglemeister", Amazon
29 September 2010
  • Summary: This looked like a great drive to use in a new Thecus N2200 NAS (Network-Attached Storage), so I ordered two of these drives for that purpose.
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Overall 6
6.0

Great standalone, terrable raid

Mr Scrith "E of E", Amazon
7 May 2010
  • Summary: I purchased these drives to create a RAID 5 setup for home storage, turns out these drives have terrible characteristics for RAID because of the "Green" firmware.
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Overall 6
6.0

Drive failed after a few hours but Amazon made it right!

James Wilson, Amazon
13 April 2010
  • Summary: I am using this drive in an external SATA dock connected to the computer via eSATA. It was extremely easy to setup in Windows 7.
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