WD Caviar Green 2TB wins Hardware Canucks Dam Good Value Award
16 February 2010 Source: www.hardwarecanucks.com
While Western Digital's own Black and VelociRaptor series steal the lime light, these Green series drives go about their business giving not only great bang for your buck performance but abilities that you cant get in other lines.
As hard drive capacities increase, the power required to run those drives increases as well. WD Caviar Green drives make it possible for energy-conscious customers to build systems with higher capacities and the right balance of system performance, ensured reliability, and energy conservation.
In this review, the Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB Hard Drive wins the Hardware Canucks Dam Good Value Award.
The Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB is one of those products that comes along every now and then which we don't have high expectations for but we nonetheless walked away extremely impressed...
...You will see these drives is in Home Theatre PC's, external storage solutions and anywhere else that favours low power consumption or low noise output over shear performance...
...In these places only a SSD can compete (but not on cost per GB) and most other hard disk drives are left eating the Caviar Green's dust in those key areas...
...Our hats are off to those wizards of engineering over at Western Digital, as they were given an extremely difficult task: to build a drive which is seemingly made of contradictions (size, speed and power yet low noise and efficient) and that is exactly what they did...
...They went about balancing everything out and ended up with a drive which performs amazingly well at what is built to do and that is deliver top class storage performance while offering something for everyone...
...There simply are no other options out there which can match the size and performance with such a low noise and energy consumption profile like this drive can.