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33 Reviews
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Decent speeds, silent, cool, power saving, good for AV work, perpendicular recording technology
A bit slower than most other hard drives, expensive
When we talk about hard drives, we usually tend to think about a PC. But the fact is that hard drives are used at a lot many places other than in a PC. Western Digital manufactures hard drives with special features targeting audio video professionals. ...
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Published: 2018-04-11, Author: Tomas , review by: uk.hardware.info
Despite the fact that there are only three hard disk drive manufacturers left, you have a lot to choose from when you're looking for a new drive. It is not just about prices either. Though SSDs have outperformed hard drives for a long time now, there are...
Abstract: SSDs are of course the hippest and fastest form of storage, but if you want lots of storage capacity without breaking the bank, you're still relegated to the familiar realm of the hard disk. There's still some choice out there in this category, and pric...
Abstract: When we reviewed our first 3TB hard drive almost a year ago, the market wasn't quite ready for the huge storage capacity being made available. Fully compatible motherboards featuring the unified extensible firmware interface (UEFI) were still months aw...
Abstract: When we reviewed our first 3TB hard drive almost a year ago, the market wasn't quite ready for the huge storage capacity being made available. Fully compatible motherboards featuring the unified extensible firmware interface (UEFI) were still months away,...
Low power consumption, Strong read performance, 3TB capacity
Falls behind in some benchmarks compared to other low-power drives, Some price premium compared to standard 3TB Caviar Green
The Western Digital 3TB AV-GP is an easy to recommend hard drive for its intended use of streaming video with very high reliability. Aimed at markets that require 24x7 uptime, the AV-GP is geared towards the DVR and surveillance segments, where a stand...
We want to say a few words about the Samsung SpinPoint F4 first. The company decided to introduce new platters into small-capacity products and this solution seems to be right. The SpinPoint F4 is fast, inexpensive (at least, inexpensive to make) and ...
Abstract: Three Terabyte capacity in a 4-platter drive and 750GB/disc density is excellent, but the 2 TB model in a drive with one less disc might prove to be even better for noise and power. We examine samples of the latest WD Caviar Green models along with an ...
Abstract: Above is a chart we put together that represents an (unweighted) geometric mean of the overall performance of each drive, based on all the tests we performed. Use this chart as a rough guide only, as we used an admittedly simplistic methodology to create these comparison numbers: All the test scores were calculated with equal weighting; we factored..
Abstract: The 2 TB Western Digital AV-GP is based on the 2 TB Western Digital Caviar Green. As such, it also spins at a slower fixed spindle speed - somewhere between 5,400 RPM and 7,200 RPM. This allows the drive to run cooler and use less power. However, our ....