WD Caviar Green WD10EACS 1 TB Internal Hard Drive

No problems but make sure you cool it!

Strengths: Large size and dependable.

Weakness: Can run a bit hot, so make sure to have some good cooling.

I loaded my harddrive into an Antec MX-1 active cooled enclosure and backed up all of my data onto it. I think it would have been running pretty hot if I didn't have it in the active-cooled enclosure. Also, not using the SATA connection makes the data transfer a bit slow (through USB).

1TB at a good price

Strengths: Drive runs quiet and cool, 3 yr warranty

Weakness: 16 mb cache - slightly slower perf

Drive was easy to set up and runs quiet and cool at 5400 rpm. Green drive saves on power and runs perfectly in the NAS box in RAID 1 config with a small tradeoff in performance (not your best option for a boot drive).

Great drive for the money

Strengths: Low cost, high capacity, solid performance

Weakness: Not the fastest (if you care about that sort of thing)

Western Digital has really hit a home run with this drive. It's by far the cheapest 1TB drive on the market (typically $25-$75 than the others), it's very quiet, and out of the 6 I've purchased in the last two months NONE have had any problems. It also consumes less power, meaning it produces less heat. It does so through a variety of technologies but also (mainly) because the drive spins slower...

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Storage Solution.

Strengths: big, cheap, quiet, efficient

Weakness: it is what it is. not for very high performance, lower rpm than other 1tb drives to save energy, but as far as storage and hd video playback go, it\\\'s great.

I\\\'m playing large HD (.mkv) media files in Vista without a problem. It\\\'s nice and quiet on my media center pc. I don\\\'t use it for anything else. I\\\'m no hard drive expert, but as far as looking for a nice, big, quiet drive to shove into the 3.5 spot in your case, it\\\'s a beauty. after losing many files thanks to externals, I\\\'m happy to put something in that\\\'s a little safer and...

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Solid Product

Strengths: Large Size, 3 Year Warranty, Runs Quiet and Cool. Perfect drive for Media Center storage.

Weakness: Not so great performance.

Western Digital again delivers a good quality product. Many people may complain about the performance of these drives though. It's a variable speed drive which many people may not like for their main desktop drive. These drives are the future, so get used too it. Most drives made in the past few years have the ability to be slowed down for heat/energy/sound issues. It's just that the option...

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WD Caviar GP 1TB Hard Drive (Serial ATA-300, 16MB

Strengths: Very good packaging, seems it is a factory sealed

Weakness: I do not see any weaknesses yet.

Very good value for a money paid.As it was promiced by site, it is a new, factory sealed 1 Tb internal hard drive bundled with full back up software.I hope it will work the way it was described.

Excellent drive

Strengths: Has not failed me! Holds a lot of stuff!

Weakness: Heats up pretty well

This is a great drive and will provide plenty of storage for my needs for the time being. I have it in an Antex MX1 enclosure so in terms of overheating, the enclosure is doing a good job 'dissipating' the heat. I haven't been able to tell of any degraded performance either. I've already filled out 75% of the drive!