Western Digital Caviar Green series hard drives

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2010/11/27 08:16:15 (permalink)

Western Digital Caviar Green series hard drives

From personal experience, just wanted to pass the word on that these hard drives, IMHO, really don't belong in a DAW, go with the Black series.

I have a green for my sample library drive and it literally takes forever to backup with Norton Ghost or Acronis because of the varying rpm speed of the drive.

Stay away!


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    Norrie
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    Re:Western Digital Caviar Green series hard drives 2011/01/08 20:39:22 (permalink)
    +1 for the Caviar Blacks I have 3 of them

    I Picked them becuase I heard they were the most popular for DAW builders and I was suprised to see they werent that much more that the Blues or the Greens if you shop about

    Thats a good warning for folks Gustabo!

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    gustabo
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    Re:Western Digital Caviar Green series hard drives 2011/01/09 19:53:01 (permalink)
    Hey Norrie,
    Responded to your pm but your inbox is full.


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    Adam A7X - Behritone C50A
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    Bristol_Jonesey
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    Re:Western Digital Caviar Green series hard drives 2011/01/10 04:33:19 (permalink)
    FWIW, I've just had to return a 1TB WD Caviar Black as it was faulty on arrival.

    It simply wouldn't spin up at all, I was just getting some weird, mechanical grinding noise, BIOS wouldn't recognise it, Windows couldn't see it, the Add New Hardware Wizard just laughed at me.

    All in all, very disappointed (and a waste of many hours of precious time), even though I've gone with WD Black for years.

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    Re:Western Digital Caviar Green series hard drives 2011/01/10 08:58:56 (permalink)
    that can happen with any drive... the WD black 64meg cache drives have had a very low fail rate

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