Western Digital WD Green WD10EADS 1TB 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive Western Digital WD Green WD10EADS 1TB 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Great hard drive. This is the hard drive I use in all my builds as a secondary internal hard drive. Great for storage to keep the main drive less cluttered and running well. First drive has been running great since 04/2011. Like previously stated, sometimes takes a few seconds to boot up, but has worked great for all those years, and is utilized daily.

Cons: Sometimes a touch slow to get up and running in the morning. But utilized solely as an internal storage drive.

Pros: Was a solid drive

Cons: No warning at all immediate failure. Normally with smart or other drive diags a warning will issue or so sectors start to go etc. Here the drive motor just fails and now all those GB of data is gone.

Other Thoughts: It should have issued a warning of some kind, slow start, delayed start basically spin up issues but there was not a single one.

Pros: solid performs well no problems its my movie storage lots of use

Cons: none

Pros: Purchased on 2/13/2009, all 5 original drives still operating in my RAID 5 file server as of 11/17/14. I've been using it for a media server this whole time.

Cons: One of them is starting to make a grinding noise but I just backed up everything. But after this long, I find that quite acceptable.

Other Thoughts: Hopefully I can get some more life out of this and bide my time until the 6TB Red's come down in price. It was $93 (1TB Green) then, why is it $113 now?

Pros: Purchased 4/3/2009, still using it as of 4/28/2014 for archival backups.

Cons: Sometimes takes a few seconds to spin up upon first access.

Other Thoughts: Would buy again.

Pros: Lasted 5 years

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: This drive was run as part of a RAID NAS 24x7x365 for about 5 years. Finally failed after that time. I'm happy with that performance. Never had any issues prior to that. I had another of these drives that failed after about 3 years. I'd like it if they run forever, but for this level of drive, I guess that's what you get.

Pros: Was a great buy when I bought this drive 4 years ago at $70.00. It has run in my desktop since it was installed to replace another failed WD drive. I use it for storage, not the boot drive.

Cons: Only lasted 4 years and now is not recognized at all but still spins. not bad for a spindle HDD, but I've seen other drives last longer.

Other Thoughts: Seems like HDs just don't last like they used to. I remember older HDDs used to last forever, but now it seems like it is the most common thing to fail.

Pros: Have had it for 4 years still working good

Cons: none

Pros: Thought I would submit this just to have it on record...

The drive made it through the warranty years with no problems. Like some others, it dies not long after.

Cons: Given the relatively light use (mostly unused in the first year, then nightly cron backups later on), hoped it would last longer.

Other Thoughts: I have other WD drives that refuse to give up, despite heavy DVR usage. You just never know...

Pros: Lasted nearly 4 years as a storage drive; was a good drive and didn't encounter any issues with it in the meantime. I had a bit of prior notice up until the hard drive dying, at least; Windows would stop recognizing it now and then, and it would show up again after a reboot so I had plenty of time to back up my data.

Cons: Dead now, but I suppose it's about time for a larger replacement anyhow.