Western Digital WD Caviar Green 3TB SATA3 3.5IN 64MB Cache Intellipower Internal Hard Disk Drive
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 Rating: Review Date: 07/17/12 |
Western Digital WD Caviar Green 3TB SATA3 3.5IN 64MB Cache Intellipower Internal Hard Disk Drive
Cons:* Load/unload (head parking) is way too aggressive at stock settings (parks every 5 seconds, which is excessive and leads to wear and tear)
Pros:* Quiet, can't hear it in my case (Corsair 550D)* Fast sequential reads/writes* Cheap considering the current state of HDD market* Perfect for bulk storage on a home machine |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/14/12 |
Western Digital WD Caviar Green 3TB SATA3 3.5IN 64MB Cache Intellipower Internal Hard Disk Drive
Cons:faster hard drives do exist for almost same price
Pros:cheap price when on salelots of datareliablewestern digital Comment:
lots of data for a good price, good brand, speed wasn't important for me because its just for storage, and of course its a western digital hard drive. always reliable |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/10/12 |
Western Digital WD Caviar Green 3TB SATA3 3.5IN 64MB Cache Intellipower Internal Hard Disk Drive
Cons:None whatsoever
Pros:Great drive for 139.99$; still great WD products Comment:
Great drive for 139.99$; still great WD products |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/05/12 |
Western Digital WD Caviar Green 3TB SATA3 3.5IN 64MB Cache Intellipower Internal Hard Disk Drive
Cons:none
Pros:huge volume, quiet Comment:
I use it for storage. It does not matter whether it is fast. Stability is the most important. I will come back to report its stability after several months. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/30/12 |
Western Digital WD Caviar Green 3TB SATA3 3.5IN 64MB Cache Intellipower Internal Hard Disk Drive
Cons:nope
Pros:fast enough for storage and really silent Comment:
For backup and storage it's fast enough no complaint.I had to put my hand on it just to be sure it was working at first.When on sale it's the best |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/27/12 |
Western Digital WD Caviar Green 3TB SATA3 3.5IN 64MB Cache Intellipower Internal Hard Disk Drive
Cons:none so far
Pros:Great space for a great price Comment:
i bought this drive to house all my backups from the random hard drives in my computer.write speeds and read speeds are ok nothing to write home about, but for 160 dollars on sale you can;t complain. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/24/12 |
Western Digital WD Caviar Green 3TB SATA3 3.5IN 64MB Cache Intellipower Internal Hard Disk Drive
Cons:None so far but I anticipate the little lag when you try to access the drive and it's been unsolicitated for a little while but it's normal with the ''green'' from WD. This a not a black :P And it'a minor con not even worth a loss of star =) Anyway it's for back up and media files, I got the SSD to do the quick trick
Pros:Fast reliable HDD. Quite a deal at 139$ !! Quiet and cool Comment:
Fast reliable HDD. Quite a deal at 139$ !! Quiet and cool always a good buy with WD and alsways a great choice to go with NCIX !!! WithRoaskil's Disk speed I get 120MB/s of read speed and 315 for cached speed wich is within expectation !! (I'm on SATA2) Great product ! This review was modfied by poster @ 06-24-12 05:59 PM |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/19/12 |
Western Digital WD Caviar Green 3TB SATA3 3.5IN 64MB Cache Intellipower Internal Hard Disk Drive
Cons:None
Pros:Stable large capacity drive Comment:
Paired 2 of these drives with a 4-bay NAS (Netgear ReadyNAS NV+). Drive is on the NAS's recommended list, and has been working flawlessly. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/16/12 |
Western Digital WD Caviar Green 3TB SATA3 3.5IN 64MB Cache Intellipower Internal Hard Disk Drive
Cons:None!
Pros:Great, reliable, green!! Comment:
Just bought a second WD 3TO today. Got my first months ago and it's flawless. WD never fails on me.. getting rid of all my Seagate i've been buying last several years and slowly replacing with WD. Those 3TB Green will go straight in my NAS. 139$.. you can't regret it!! |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/07/12 |
Western Digital WD Caviar Green 3TB SATA3 3.5IN 64MB Cache Intellipower Internal Hard Disk Drive
Cons:non
Pros:great storage hdd Comment:
I always go with Western digital! they never crashed on me!! |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/01/12 |
Western Digital WD Caviar Green 3TB SATA3 3.5IN 64MB Cache Intellipower Internal Hard Disk Drive
Cons:Price still high, some Os won't recognize > 2 TB.
Pros:Lots of space, run silent. Easy to install. Comment:
This is my 3th green caviar. Installed it as a data disk in a Windows 7. I had to convert to GPT. I think you can't install Os on a GPT disk. I didn't really mind, it's only for storage.Speed is not the fastest disk ever but i get 100 mb/sec speed on this one. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/23/12 |
Western Digital WD Caviar Green 3TB SATA3 3.5IN 64MB Cache Intellipower Internal Hard Disk Drive
Cons:Might be slow as an install drive. Brought my Windows Experience Index down from 7.8 to 5.9, although the score isn't really relevant as my OS is on an SSD.
Pros:tonnes of space, Western Digital quality and price. Comment:
Bought this to get rid of multiple smaller HDD's, and store my media and installers. Works perfect for this! After installing the 3tb unlock on my Gigabyte Motherboard the drive showed up immediately. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/10/12 |
Western Digital WD Caviar Green 3TB SATA3 3.5IN 64MB Cache Intellipower Internal Hard Disk Drive
Cons:-cheapest built drive (meaning questionable reliability)
Pros:-excellent value storage-sata3 connection-cheap Comment:
I have had very good luck with WD drives, and so I don't consider any others. I have not experienced any problems whatsoever with these 3tb green drives (I have owned several 3TB and 2TB versions), but they are the cheapest built drives on the market (as are the Seagate drives), so if these drives don't show up DOA, it's still not a smart move to consider them as reliable long term storage unless you are running RAID-1. Having said that, I have a 2TB green that has ran flawless for 2 years now. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/03/12 |
Western Digital WD Caviar Green 3TB SATA3 3.5IN 64MB Cache Intellipower Internal Hard Disk Drive
Cons:RAID glitches now and then
Pros:Huge capacity Comment:
A year ago I purchased 4 of these drives to upgrade my server running in a Raid-1 array. I'm using a Highpoint RocketRAID 2300 4 channels. I have been using this configuration for close to 3 years. The only thing I found about those drives is that after my box has been up for 2-3 month without a shutdown, the RocketRAID looses the second array and cannot rebuilt it. All I have to do is shutdown the server for a full minute, power everything up and I'm back up while the RAID rebuilt the array.This setup did not cost me much and has been serving me very well. |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/02/12 |
Western Digital WD Caviar Green 3TB SATA3 3.5IN 64MB Cache Intellipower Internal Hard Disk Drive
Cons:Concerned about the reliability of the drive
Pros:I like the size and specs of the 3G drive Comment:
I purchased 4 drives to install in a patriot 4-bay SAN. The SAN formats the 4 drives in a RAID5 configuration. The next day, the SAN is beeping and complaining about a drive failure. I remember the old days when this could happen but today, it's hard to believe. Maybe it's just my luck to get a bad one. I will get it replaced and buy 2 more as spares. I just wanted to share my experience. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/05/12 |
Western Digital WD Caviar Green 3TB SATA3 3.5IN 64MB Cache Intellipower Internal Hard Disk Drive
Cons:not as fast as I would have liked
Pros:good mass storage drive, lower voltage Comment:
I'm glad I have an ssd to boot from, because this drive isn't that much faster than my previous one but its HUGE!!! |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/05/11 |
Western Digital WD Caviar Green 3TB SATA3 3.5IN 64MB Cache Intellipower Internal Hard Disk Drive
Cons:Needed to apply additional driver to get it to work under Windows XP
Pros:Large capacity, good value Comment:
I installed this on a Windows XP machine. WinXP will only recognize ~770MB due to the native MBR file system limitation. To use a 2TB+ hard drive, I had to buy and download Paragon's GPT Loader ($20) which adds support for GUID partition tables thus allowing you to use the full 3TB in WinXP. This delays the immediate need to upgrade to Windows 7... which will take hours if not days to reload all my software and settings. :) |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/03/11 |
Western Digital WD Caviar Green 3TB SATA3 3.5IN 64MB Cache Intellipower Internal Hard Disk Drive
Cons:limited support for existing hardware and software
Pros:don't know yet... Comment:
my intel series 5 pc is only 4 months old and it doesnt support this harddrive. retail versions ship with a pci express card to as a workaround bios/mb issues. |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/19/11 |
Western Digital WD Caviar Green 3TB SATA3 3.5IN 64MB Cache Intellipower Internal Hard Disk Drive
Cons:none
Pros:large capacity Comment:
It was time to renew my offline backup and this drive just does it. Connect it, rsync the data from the server, and store it away at the bank's security box to survive the odds. |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/14/11 |
Western Digital WD Caviar Green 3TB SATA3 3.5IN 64MB Cache Intellipower Internal Hard Disk Drive
Cons:Limitations with Windows XP (Which is an obsolete OS anyways)
Pros:Massive storageReliabilityLow noise levelsReasonable spin up times Comment:
I have a MediaSonic Probox with 4 storage bays. 3 years ago, I started with the 4 green 1 TB drives. Last year, I upgraded to the 2TB drives, all 4 of which are the green drives. Last week, I picked up the SATA 3, 3 TB drives, and still have never had a failure, error or bad cluster. EVER. If it isn't broke, don't fix it. Having had no failures with 16 WD drives, all of which are green, I won't change anything, except to upgrade. This is a great drive for storage, but if you're looking for performance for a main OS drive, I would go with something else. |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/10/11 |
Western Digital WD Caviar Green 3TB SATA3 3.5IN 64MB Cache Intellipower Internal Hard Disk Drive
Cons:- None
Pros:- 3TB of data Comment:
No issues and works great for storing not as frequently used data and backups. Bought it because the price/GB is close to the 2TB (on sale).Note, as it 3TB you will need to use GPT to utilize the entire 3TB as one partition. Also need the newer EFI if you plan to boot into it. |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/07/11 |
Western Digital WD Caviar Green 3TB SATA3 3.5IN 64MB Cache Intellipower Internal Hard Disk Drive
Cons:Kind of heavy, but what would you expect with it being 3tb
Pros:Huge storage Comment:
Massive amount of space to store your data, music, and anything else really. Very useful for backing up data as well, which is the main reason I bought this. Found this on sale so I picked one up! :) |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/30/11 |
Western Digital WD Caviar Green 3TB SATA3 3.5IN 64MB Cache Intellipower Internal Hard Disk Drive
Cons:None so far regarding the HDD
Pros:Lots of space. Comment:
Great storage HDD. Had another caviar green for a year now and its done me well. So I grabbed this one when it was on sale and expect the same. |
Needed another 3TB drive and the Hitatchis are now impossible to find and Seagate has a joke of a warranty (1 year) so I went WD for the first time in years. Running for bulk storage in my PC, not in RAID so TLER is not an issue for me.Drive is behaving perfectly so far, the only issue is the head parking is ridiculous (power saving is the rationale). Google WDIDLE3 tool and you can change the firmware to park the heads only after 300s (5min) of idle time which is much more reasonable and should extend drive life. That is the only reason I am giving it 4/5.