Just to clear it up, I've bought 3 WD drives this year and I recommend them.
HOWEVER This GREEN thing with harddrives I see lately mainly at techreport is starting to get completely besides the friggin point!!

quote: "With significantly lower idle and seek power consumption than its terabyte rivals, the RE2-GP enables much higher storage densities within a fixed power budget or much lower power consumption than solutions with equivalent capacity."

WTF a 2 watt difference at load is significant only if your talking about 10watt and lower.
How the f*** are we even going to NOTICE this on the monthly powerbill if all of our other hardware runs at 200-250 watt for the guys that primarily would buy a bigger then 80gb harddrive in the first place.

well excuse my ranting but articles about a 2watt powersaving for a new harddrive and then completely avoiding the watt difference over the whole pc which probably won't be so green is a bit too much to swallow.

Damagelabs, next time don't do a generic hdd articale with a "powersaving" emphasis which is completely neglible on the bills and compared to the whole pc and monitor (or at least SHOW the REAL WORLD difference in bills instead of those sad watts per gigabyte tables). This just makes it sound like WD paid you guys to mention all that... :(

How does having TLER affect these drives when sed in a non-RAID or software RAID setup? Does the decreased time to report an error cause program errors and crashes or any other problems?

Maybe the number of hits is different for TR versus other tech sites. Not many larger sites do HD reviews and these WD 1TB models are newnewnew. So there might be other factors than just what type of article it is that account for page hits. Nice article! If I ever need to expand home server storage hese drives are looking good, of course by the time I need to do that who knows what will be out.

if it wants to go green, start the ssd prodigy.

Do hard drive articles get more hits than motherboard articles? That would surprise me.

Where can we buy this drive from? All the links on the end of the page lead to the prior 1TB model. Gonna order a bunch of stuff from Newegg, was hoping to add this drive in.

/me is honored by the mention. Just a geek with a few minutes and a desire to crunch numbers.

I suspect future system guides will include Best performance/Watt systems?

It's funny how "Green" has become such a powerful marketing tool.

I wonder if they're going to release a Raptor variant ever, or if the Green trend has deep-sixed 15ks forever. Just imagine how a high-density 15k Raptor would perform (if they could get a drive spinning at 15k to even read platters of that density, that is).

Wow. WD seems to be on a roll as of late.

Good article Geoff. Although is it possible in the future to highlight the drive you're testing in a different color that stands out a bit more? A bright yellow does, after looking at many graphs, seem to "pale" after a while. Other than that, excellent job.