2 TB Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive

The power of choice. The quality of WD.

WD Caviar® Blue™ Performance and reliability for everyday computing. Select true blue for reliable quality in everyday use.	WD Caviar® Green™ Cool, quiet, eco-friendly. Select green for doing more with less energy consumption.	WD Caviar® Black™ Maximum performance for power computing. Select black when you demand the highest performance.

WD Caviar Green – Cool, quiet, eco-friendly.

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.

Features at a glance

Reduced power consumption
Environmentally responsible
Cool and quiet
3-year limited warranty

WD Caviar Green drives use less power and support quieter, cooler-running desktop PCs and external storage devices.

Reduced power consumption - WD has reduced power consumption by up to 40 percent compared to standard desktop drives with the combination of WD's IntelliSeek, NoTouch, and IntelliPower technologies.

Helps enable eco-friendly PCs - WD Caviar Green drives yield an average drive power savings of 4-5 watts over standard desktop drives making it possible for our energy-conscious customers to build systems with higher capacities and the right balance of system performance, ensured reliability, and energy conservation.

GreenPower technology logo Cool and quiet - WD GreenPower Technology™ yields lower operating temperatures for increased reliability and low acoustics for ultra-quiet PCs and external drives.

Massive capacity - Capacities up to 2 TB offer the most available capacity for storage-intensive programs and space-hungry operating systems, like Windows Vista®, with plenty of room left over for photos, music, and video.

Perfect for external drives - External drive manufacturers can eliminate the need for a fan in a high-capacity product with a WD Caviar Green drive, the coolest and quietest in its class.

View IntelliSeek demo here.

PMR

IntelliPower - A fine-tuned balance of spin speed, transfer rate and caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance.

IntelliSeek - Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise, and vibration.

NoTouch ramp load technology - The recording head never touches the disk media ensuring significantly less wear to the recording head and media as well as better drive protection in transit.

Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR) - Employs PMR technology to achieve even greater areal density.

StableTrac™ - The motor shaft is secured at both ends to reduce system-induced vibration and stabilize platters for accurate tracking, during read and write operations. (2 TB models only)

Low power spin-up - WD Caviar Green drives consume less current during startup allowing lower peak loads.

Advanced power technology - Electronic components deliver best-in-class low power consumption for reduced power requirements and increased reliability.

Comment: I just wanted to add my 2 cents.
I have used this drive in more build than I can count.
I think i've used at least 90 or so drives in the last few months maybe two have failed. I really like these drives and if power and cool computing is an issue for your next build, put these at the top of your list.

Comment: My Amazon order was shipped from Pensacola General Supply - very, very quickly. The Western Digital drives both died almost immediately after spin-up. Google reveals MOST of these drives are failing and Western Digital is telling folks replacements won't be available until the end of September - though they have many new faulty drives remaining for sale. Likewise, my drive return experience with Western Digital have almost never been positive - and generally in my being shipped "refurbished drives" - rather than the new drives I had purchased.

Comment: I bought 3 of them. 1 failed. Having 2tb all the tools that you could think about to try and fix the drive are really REALLY slow.

appart from that experience, its very nice to have the 1.81 tb it offers

Comment: Purchased two Western Digital 2tb SATA Green internal hard drives in March 2010. One of them just failed after 3 mos of use. Fortunately the two hard drives were in a RAID 1 configuration inside of a Synology DS209 server so no data was lost...yet. In the process of doing an RMA for the defective hard drive. Three months for a hard drive failure for a server that is not moved....ever..... is not a very good track record. Hope this model is not a lemon.

Comment: Drive works like a charm, I won't need another one for 5 years I'll bet! I didn't have any trouble installing, BIOS found it, Vista liked it too. I don't notice any additional noise from my case, and it's a fairly low noise system. Not much else to say, it's a HDD.