1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Go Green!!,
July 25, 2009 James "chinoloco93" (Union City, CA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 750GB SATA II 7200 RPM 16MB (Personal Computers)
I have this drive and WD's next generation of the same drive, WD7500AADS, the one with 32 MB of Cache.
I used these two drives in my HP Media Vault 2120 and love it. I didn't choose to do a RAID, so I have a combined 1.3 TB of storage in the Media Vault.
One thing to note, the drives work great but data transfer does not seem to be quite as fast as the Blue Caviar or my Seagate Baracudas. What I mean by that is when I transfer lots of files from one drive to the other, I think the transfer rates are slower sing Windows Explorer. Of course I know Explorer has a lot of overhead that may slow down transfer rates but the Seagate Baracdas seem to large amounts of data (like 200 GB or so) much more quickly.
I like the idea of power savings however, since the NAS is always running. These drives are ridiculously cool to the touch. They are much cooler to the touch when in use versus other HDDs. For a little sacrifice in performance, I get drives that are much cooler...Read more
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
So far so good!,
June 16, 2009 D. R. Hobbs (Missouri) - See all my reviews
A nice hard drive. Its a "green" hard drive so it uses less power. Runs quiet and works just fine!
btw, its only 700gb not 750.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Quite and cool drive on the cheap,
May 15, 2009 Shane Jordan (Frisco, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 750GB SATA II 7200 RPM 16MB (Personal Computers)
The drive installed perfectly. It runs quite and cool in my freenas (freeNAS.org) box. As with all hard drives, it comes down to longevity and that is not something that I can review 3 weeks after purchase. If you are going to mirror the data than that is less important.
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