WD Caviar Green Power 1000GB - WD10EADS

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WD Caviar Green Power 1000GB - WD10EADS

Post by hashbang » Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:45 am

Hi!

Does anyone know anything about this hard dive? How is it different from WD10EACS? It is listed by many retailers, but I couldn't find any technical info.
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Post by Aris » Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:19 am

WD GP has already been reviewed at this site:

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article786-page1.html

Read the review.
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Post by Luminair » Wed Sep 17, 2008 8:56 am

he is asking about the new model name
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Post by line » Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:24 pm

Apparently it's a variant with a bigger buffer size of 32MB. As a side benefit, it may also guarantee you 333GB platters.
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Post by FartingBob » Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:46 pm

I have one in an external drive. Its essentiually just a 3 platter version of the old GP 1TB drive, its phasing out the 4 platter one. Slightly faster I believe (although still slower than other 1TB drives because of the rpm) and similar noise levels (possibly slightly lower due to the one less platter and lower weight).
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Post by hashbang » Wed Sep 17, 2008 3:50 pm

It has been reported that newer WD10EACS revisions have 3 platter design too. Is it just the cache size that makes the difference? It's strange that WD10EADS isn't listed listed on WD's web site.

BTW, did someone had a chance to compare 3 and 4 platter versions side by side? Is there any significant difference in noise, vibrations and speed?
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Post by mrk22 » Sat Sep 20, 2008 4:48 am

hashbang wrote:BTW, did someone had a chance to compare 3 and 4 platter versions side by side? Is there any significant difference in noise, vibrations and speed?
There's a thread in here comparing the three and four platter versions of the WD10EACS and there was a performance boost with the three platter version.
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Performance comparison

Post by hashbang » Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:06 am

Thanks for the notice! This thread is here:

HDTune results for the new GP revision

Also, in this thread a user makes a statement about noise and vibrations:

WD10EACS 00D6B0 at MicroCenter - YMMV
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