Difference between 2 WD Caviar Green SATA HDD's?

Basq

Lads,

Gonna order a 2TB SATA disk for my NAS... been using an old 90GB disk in it and it's well at capacity so just to prevent more recyling of items I've watched, thought I'd splurge and upgrade the hard drive.

Any of ye hard-drive aficionados recommend one or the other of these two? Both are those Western Digital Caviar Green disks - with about €4 - €5 in the difference between the WD20EARX and WD20EZRX?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Caviar-Green-6Gbps-Saving-Internal/dp/B004VFJ9MK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1360162866&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Caviar-Green-Internal-Hard-Drive/dp/B008YAHW6I/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1360162866&sr=8-9

Only difference (bar model number obviously) is wattage.. but didn't even bother looking online for read/write speeds.. presume they're similar!

EDIT: Just spotted a cheap Seagate too.. although much more mixed reviews!

-( i )- Wicker

Looking here I cant see any major differences, but the ezrx looks like the better option.

Would you not consider a Caviar Red drive? Those are designed for NAS usage.

Basq

-( i )- Wicker wrote: »

Looking here I cant see any major differences, but the ezrx looks like the better option.

Am thinking the little extra for the ESRX alright.

-( i )- Wicker wrote: »

Would you not consider a Caviar Red drive? Those are designed for NAS usage.

I'll consider it but about €16 in the difference.. and it's only a 1 Bay NAS / Media Server that's simply relaying video to various devices around the house (Apple TV, Smart TV etc).

EZRX has higher-density platters. It should be 2x1TB platters compared to 3x750 or even 4x500 that some EARX have.

I would go for the EZRX if you are happy with the price difference.

Basq

Prices have went up on Amazon, so went to PC World and picked up the EARX model (manufacture date of November 2012) for €99.99.

Will do the job and at least I don't have to return it all the way to Amazon if something goes belly up.