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Thread: Western Digital Caviar Green 500GB

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    Western Digital Caviar Green 500GB

    With the whole world going green, Western Digital has offered Eco-conscious users an
    alternative with the Cavier Green hard drives.

    Western Digital claims that this green series of hard drives use lesser power. Also they
    are supposed to run cooler. This is done, in my opinion, to remove he excess power usage due to hard drive coolers.



    The Packaging:-
    There is nothing different from ny other drive on the market. This comes in a silver
    conductive bag with a sachet of silicon gel in it, for keeping static electricity and
    moisture at bay.


    Now, lets get to business. The part where it matters.


    The Benchmarking Tools Used:-
    ATTO
    PCMark Vantage x64
    HD Tune Pro
    Everest Disk Benchmark.




    Test System Setup


    Hard Disk Specifications

    ATTO Benchmark Results

    More is Better

    HD Tune Benchmark Results
    Read Benchmark:-

    The curve is sloping downward.. this is mainly due to the fact that read speed is fastest at the centre and slow at the ends.

    File Benchmark:-

    This benchmark is performed by writing and reading files to a disk.
    The read speed is quite high at latter ends is quite good. It is normal for the write speed to lag.


    Health Info:-



    Everest Disk Benchmark:-

    Read suite:-

    Begin stands for areas closer to the centre,
    End stands for ends closer to the ends of the disk
    Middle is for anything in-between.

    Linear Read

    The results are astounding.


    Summary and Conclusion


    With an average write speed of 70 MB/s this hard disk is pretty neat.
    Temperatures at Idle is just 36C with an ambient of 30C is really prooving the point of being a ECO and COOL drive.


    Pros:-
    Price is just Rs.1742 (inclusive of all taxes)
    Speed is more than enough for simple storage and acceptable for some gaming.

    Cons:-
    NONE!




    hope you enjoyed this review. and that it was helpful.

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    Re: Western Digital Caviar Green 500GB

    After testing this drive for a few hours, I can say it is extra! It does not heat up a lot (about 34°C in a Twelve Hundred with 3 hard drives in front of a fan even), transfers are very good and I find them as fast as my black caviar.

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