WD Caviar Green the best storage drive?

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Hey guys,

I need to pick up a new storage drive (1 TB) to replace my failing Seagate. Are the WD Caviar Green drives pretty good? It will be holding all my video files (around 300GB) and probably my music too. Or are there better drives out there?

Thanks

Also something else on a slightly more unrelated note, if I was to go install my programs such a Photoshop etc on a drive that isn't my C drive, would I see an improvement in Windows load times (until I fork out for an SSD later this year).
 
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The smasung f4's are also definately worth considering the 2TB drives are excellent value, pretty fast and not to heavy on the juice!
 
I have 2 WD Greens, they've been fine. Not slow in the slightest either - I get nearly 100 MB/s copying from my Seagate to my "advanced format" (4k sectors) WD Green. :)
 
Yep I have 4 wd greens

1.5TB
1.5TB
2.0TB
1.0TB

They all work good, fast and quiet. Even the 1.0TB still works after it was used to host lots (6) of virtual machines. In comparison I did the same to my maxtor and it died after 2 months.
 
Does anyone know the platter counts and densitys for the WD greens? I think the 1TB is 2x500GB platters.

AceTK said:
Yep I have 4 wd greens

1.5TB
1.5TB
2.0TB
1.0TB

They all work good, fast and quiet.
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How do the 1.5/2.0TB compare to the 1TB in terms of platter noise, not seak noise?

I've got a 1TB, it's really quiet and I'm thinking of getting another but no sure how much louder, if at all, the higher capacity ones are.
 
I can never hear any of my HDDs. I'd imagine the F4 is better than the WD Green simply because it's newer and has larger platters (plus it's cheaper) but I haven't seen any benchmarks or anything.
 
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