Western Digital 1.5 TB Caviar Green SATA Intellipower 64 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive WD15EARS

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(22 customer reviews)

Product Features

3 year limited warranty.
IntelliSeek - Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise, and vibration.
IntelliPower - A fine-tuned balance of spin speed, transfer rate and caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance.
1.5 TB capacity holds up to 300,000 digital photos, 375,000 MP3 files, and 180 hours of HD video.
WD Caviar Green hard drives reduce power consumption by up to 40% and offer best-in-class acoustics and operating temperature.

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Product Description

WD Advanced Format technology increases media format efficiency, thus enabling larger drive capacities. WD Advanced Format drives are specifically optimized for Mac and the latest Windows operating systems such as Windows Vista and Windows 7. WD Advanced Format drives work with legacy operating systems such as Windows XP but require the use of the free WD Align software available on www.wdc.com/advformat. Available in capacities up to 2 TB, WD Caviar® Green™ SATA hard drives reduce power consumption by up to 40% and offer best-in-class acoustics and operating temperature. More Details >>

Customer Reviews

VERY QUIET AND UNDERATED
This drive has far exceeded my expectations. Having a 64MB cache offsets the 7200 RPM's. So technically this drive has a faster access time. More >>
Harold Corley

Best Multimedia HDD 2010
Purchased this item thought it is ideal only for Photo, Video back up files but installed windows on that and it has pretty cool performance. More >>
Giorgi Shermazanashvili

Works with Smartstor DS4600 DAS. Fast and quiet.
Works with Smartstor DS4600 4-Bay DAS for Mac & Windows. I purchased four of these 1.5 TB Caviar Green drives for another enclosure but it was limiting their performance horribly. More >>
R. Cross

Western Digital Rocks Again!
I have purchased many hard drives in the last 15 years, and have had a few failures...but NEVER Western Digital. I've had Seagate and Maxtor's die, but not one WD. More >>
Vincent F. Duminski

not suitable for hp mediasmart servers
I was informed by HP technical support that 'variable' rate hard drives are not compatible with the hp mediasmart server. More >>
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