Buy WD AV-GP 2 TB AV Video Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, SATA II, 64 MB Cache - WD20EURSWD AV-GP 2 TB AV Video Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, SATA II, 64 MB Cache - WD20EURS Product Description:
- Ships in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging
- Power-conserving WD AV-GP drives offer significant power savings and thermally optimized operation.
- This results in lower cost of ownership and unsurpassed reliability for PVR/DVR, IPTV boxes and media server manufacturers.
- 2TB capacity holds up to 400,000 digital photos, 500,000 MP3 files, and 240 hours of HD video.
- SilkStream Optimized for smooth, continuous digital video playback of up to twelve simultaneous HD streams.
- 3 Year limited warranty.
- SilkStream is compatible with the ATA streaming command set so CE customers can use standard streaming management & error recovery options.
Product Description
Power-conserving WD AV-GP hard drives are based on the WD GreenPower Technology platform designed to deliver power savings as the primary attribute. These SATA drive are equipped with IntelliPower technology, fine-tuned balance of spin speed, transfer rate, and caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance. With power reduction of up to 40 percent, they deliver cool and quiet operation and reliability that is perfect for audio video applications such as PVRs, DVRs, set-top boxes (STBs) as well as surveillance video recording.
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
Just fine.
By EmTee
I've had this drive in a computer for storing video, not so much recording streams. I purchased this elsewhere, before the flood in thailand for a ridiculous price that we'll never see again. I've also backed up regular data on it. I created this review simply to stop the misinformation stream here. This drive is CAPABLE OF ignoring read or write errors but the way it stores data on the drive, and its ability to check errors is the same as any other desktop drive. When used in a PC, the read/write modes that ignore errors are not used (and I believe cannot be used, may be wrong though). Consumer electronics devices such as DVRs are the devices that might use this read/write mode. You can find this information elsewhere, quoted directly from hard drive manufacturers in regards to these drives. There is nothing dangerous about using them in for data, in raid etc. as compared to other desktop drives.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
WD20EURS is the Drive to Get to Upgrade Your Tivo Hard Drive
By P. Langenfeld
Six months ago I bought a Tivo Premiere XL with 150 HD hours of recording (has a WD10EURS 1TB Western Digital Drive in it). Shortly later, after recording numerous high density videos I ran out of space. Since it was more than 30 days since I had my Tivo, Tivo refused to allow me to swap out my player for an upgrade or put in another hard drive, other than buying another whole new Tivo!.I considered simply adding an external hard drive built specifically for Tivo, a simple fix (by the way, Tivo charges about twice what you can get them from Amazon, etc). However, since I am familiar with computers and after reading how the external drives seem not hold up so well in the long run and how you might loose the programs stored on both the main drive and the external if it ever dysfunctions or you disconnect the external hard drive, I decided to just have one larger drive inside the Tivo with more recording capability.I searched on line and in the Tivo forums found that upgrading my Tivo Premiere XL would be easy and that I could increase my recording potential from 150 Hrs with the 1 TB drive in it to 300HD hours with a 2 TB WD20EURS drive (already maximized with reliability, power saving and compatible functions for Tivo and Video recording - 3 Yr Warranty). All I needed to do was copy the contents of my current 1 TB Tivo which is already a WD10EURS to 2 TB using a Western Digital WD20EURS Hard Drive as the target drive. By the way, Tivo software at present WILL NOT support a 3TB drive, so do not buy one of those.To do that, I found a reference to a program called JMFS, rev 104 in Tivo forums after a Yahoo internet search. I downloaded it, and and when I clicked on the download, I was given the option of burning the disk which I did creating a boot cd with the JMFS program on it.I then repeatedly hit F2 as my computer was starting to change the boot order to CD Rom before hard disk (change this back to hard drive when done with the copy procedure). I unplugged my Tivo, then using a Torx T10 and T15 screwdriver (purchased at Ace or online), I removed the four screws to the Tivo cover and then slid back the cover to my Tivo, and being careful not to touch anything else inside (possible shock), I removed the current Tivo hard drive which has four Torx screws holding the rail inside . I then inserted the JMFS boot drive into my computers second CD drive and turned OFF my computer, opened the side of my computer and disconnected the power and sata belt to my computers main hard drive (leave the computers hard drive in the machine) and then connected the power and SATA plugs freed up inside my computer from disconnecting the hard drive(s) in the machine to both the old Tivo drive taken out of my Tivo and the new 2 TB drive I am copying to. (hard drives now sitting on floor both connected next to computer). I then started the machine allowing my computer to start and boot up from the JMFS boot disk in the CD Rom. The program showed me both the older smaller Tivo Drive and the Newer Larger Drive and then gave me the option to copy from the smaller to the larger (make sure that you have this right), and after the copy finished (about 3-4 hours), I was given the option to expand my new drive to 2 TB for tivo, and then to supersize which only took about one second each.Done! Nothing else needed to be done since the WD20EURS is already optimized to work with Tivo (no need to worry about parking or seek speeds or running the Wdidle program). I simply put the new drive into my Tivo, and now it says 320 Hrs of HD recording available.Naturally, to make my computer usable again, I turned it off and disconnected the Tivo Drives, and reconnected my hard drive power and sata belts, and started my computer hitting F2 again to access the setup and bios program and changed back the order of the boot to hard drive first.Note, that the WD20EURS needs to be aligned if instead of puting it into a Tivo or video recorder you leave it inside your computer running with Windows XT in place unless you align the hard drive first (a jumper setting), however, this is not a problem setting up a tivo drive as the JMFS boot disk that you made has its own operating system that you use when you boot and the fact that windows XT might be on your computer is totally irrelevant to the copy procedure. So don't worry about windows XT being on your computer for this copy procedure and don't add a jumper or alter or align the WD20EURS when you get it!If I had known I was going to buy an upgrade drive, I probably would have purchased the $400 Tivo Premiere XL4 machine (cheaper on Amazon) with 300 HD hours already available and the ability to record four channels at a time instead of 2 channels and only 150 HD recording hours like the Tivo Premiere XL. By the way, you can get a refurbished Premiere XL from Tivo with 150 HD hours for $150 at present. And of course, it may be wise to save the old Tivo drive removed as a backup should your new drive ever fail or to put in the machine for a factory return if you need service later.The instructions to do this upgrade may be slightly different for an older version than a Tivo Premiere, however, they are readily available on the internet. If you are not confident about doing this and are out of space, the external drive may be a much better option for you.Of course, a computer shop or hard drive cloner tool may be able to clone your Tivo Drive onto the larger drive. However, you may still need to run the JMFS boot disk to expand the new drive to the full 300Hrs recording time and supersize (for another 20 hours) the disk and if you have less than a Premiere machine, you may need to use a different program to supersize (instructions on line).The new drive does not invalidate the ownership of your Tivo, which is recognized from a microchip in the machine. Also, this process works fine with a machine with Windows XP as mentioned since you are using the Unix Operating system on the JMFS boot disk. My drive although bulk OEM, was easily recognized and used for the copying of my older drive to the new. Other drives may work for this procedure, but the WD20EURS is an AV drive optimized to conserve its resources when not being used and to be more reliable in the long run.As a side note, Comcast in our area only broadcasts at 720dpi even in high definition. When I set my Tivo to record higher than that, the picture looked terrible, some sort of bad upsampling apparently. So, if you don't like your picture, try setting your tivo for recording at 720 dpi.
68 of 83 people found the following review helpful.
WD20EURS - ONLY USE DVR's or Security Camera's Etc.
By Kelly Owens
this drive is amazing! ive got 1 in my tivo Premiem HD and wow is it fast and good! also have 2 in the Security Camera dvr setup again its not missed a beat!BUT i must warn you now DO NOT USE THIS IN A COMPUTER YOU WILL STORE DATA ON IE DOCUMENTS ETC!!!!!THE REASON FOR THIS IS BELOWThe A/V drives ignore errors, the normal drives will do an error recovery to attempt to get back any data from the platter.When recording video (security cameras etc) you want an A/V drive that will just record whatever you throw at it, and keep going even if it misses a byte or two. An error in a couple of bytes just causes a minor blip in the video stream, but the rest won't stop. On a normal drive it could go into an error recovery mode and stop recording for 10-30 seconds - and this is much worse for security.However if you store documents, a single byte error could corrupt megabytes or even gigabytes of important data.Which you choose depends on your purpose.. but for DVR's, CCTV's Etc ie if its only going to have video on it then this is the kiddie you need!
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