Thread: Western Digital WD20EARS

The well-known hard drive manufacturer Western Digital has recently launched a new member of its drive series "Green Caviar" presented before the WD20EARS. This is a kind of souped-up successor to the WD20EADS, we already had in the test. From the new model, we could now get hold of a copy of the test at short notice and you want to introduce on the following pages. As supporters of the Green Series WD20EARS is due to the smooth running and moderate power consumption which is focused above. For performance enthusiasts, WD has finally, the Black Series in the program.

The three eye-catching features of WD20EARS compared to its predecessors while among the employed "Advanced Formatting" technology (4k sectors), which had grown to 64 megabytes of disk cache and the 3-platter design. Otherwise, the model of the previous line of the Green drives true: The rotation speed is variable and is controlled by means of flexible Intelligible. Otherwise, come the familiar features like Stablemate, No Touch and Intelligence used. The capacity is, as the names suggests, to 2 terabytes. Each of the three plates is equipped with about 666 gigabytes. EARS Other models are also still available with 1 or 1.5 TB.

The reference to the HDD label is especially important for older operating systems like Windows XP: Because of the 4k-sectors must be used when using XP, use the WD-Align tool. This program provides a marginal difference between data and sectors, so XP does not come out of step. If the WD20EARS with newer systems such as Vista or Windows 7.

specifications

Manufacturer: Western Digital
Product Name: WD20EARS
Website: WD Home
Form Factor: 3.5
Capacity: 2000 GB
Speed: IntelliPower
Cache: 64 MB
Interface: SATA 3 Gb / s
Warranty: 3 years