Product ReviewsWestern Digital WD Caviar Green 3TB SATA3 3.5IN 64MB Cache Intellipower Internal Hard Disk Drive
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 Rating: Review Date: 03/28/15  |
Cons: None
Pros: WD Support is the best! |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/07/15 |
Cons: none
Pros: Reliable. Error free. Comment:
Not much to say other than I'm very pleased. Error free for 9 months.Stays nice and cool and not too loud.Very pleased. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/01/15 |
Cons: A bit slower but that's expected since its a green and I only use it to store data
Pros: Large capacityLow powerStill much cheaper for data storage compared to SSDs Comment:
If you need reliable large storage solutions Western Digital always delivers. None of my WD drives have failed with the oldest one being almost 8 years old. |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/31/14 |
Cons: -Nothing out of the ordinary
Pros: -Stores data-Low cost backup storage Comment:
Has good value for backup storage. HDD works as advertised, no other complaints. |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/13/14 |
Cons: - Intermitten clicking seek noise
Pros: - Excellent price for 3GB- Fast- Quiet- Energy efficient Comment:
Excellent price for a 3TB drive. Fast sequential read and write performance, although random performance suffers from the lower 5400RPM. Works well as a storage drive in conjunction to an SSD. Low idle and seek noise. Makes an intermittent seek noise at boot. Would buy again. |
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Rating: Review Date: 11/14/14 |
Cons: None so far
Pros: Great so far, over 1 year of service Comment:
Great temperature and access speed, no noise thus far. Owned it over a year now and everything is great. Would buy again. |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/05/14 |
Cons: nothing really
Pros: Solid Drive, price per TB is on par, Great for NAS Comment:
Great drive when used in a NAS. Have being using two of these drives in a RAID 1 running 24/7 for the past 2 years in a Synology DS 212+ Not much more to really stay except that I'm very pleased with the product. For a home or small business this is an ideal drive. I keep a 3rd drive as a spare of which has not been used and just collects dust. If anyone is looking for a great NAS, you won't go wrong with any of the Synology products, blows Drobo and pretty much anything else out of the water. The firmware is (OS) is Linux based, so solid and safe! |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/08/14 |
Cons: honestly, i would keep a backup
Pros: lots of space obviously Comment:
Goes on sale a lot which is pretty much the only times i buy this drive. these seem to have a very short lifespan (1-2 years at MOST before it starts showing signs of failure) |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/18/14 |
Cons: Not the fastest drive.
Pros: Affordable and reliable Comment:
For the price, it's not bad. Although it's not the fastest, it's good for just storing data, photos... etc. |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/06/14 |
Cons: None
Pros: Quiet OperationLow power usagePlenty of StorageRuns Cool Comment:
These are great drives for extra storage for media or what have you. They are good value over the higher performing drives if you just need storage without the extra speed. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/05/14 |
Cons: Slow
Pros: CheapGood companyWarranty Comment:
Slow compare to a black or red but cheap storage.Work well on my computer, no problem at all.Got it at 119$, nothing to complain about. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/03/14 |
Cons: None
Pros: Fast and quiet Comment:
Holds huge amounts of information and doesn't make a sound, would recommend to anyone. |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/19/13 |
Cons: none besides speed, but that's why there are black and red drives
Pros: quietcoolreliablelow power consumption Comment:
I just past my two year warranty on two of these drives that I got from NCIX. I've been running them 24/7 and have not had a problem with them or any WD drive. They are perfect for mass storage. |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/23/13 |
Cons: none for my purposes
Pros: 3TB at a good price Comment:
I use two of these in RAID mirror. I have another 3 pairs also in RAID mirror in my mini server machine. I have had no problems with any of them. Then again i only turn on the box once a week or so, thus cannot comment on how these drives would be in a long term continuous use |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/24/13 |
Cons: ...but if you are running Windows be prepared for issues.
Pros: Seems like a great dead... Comment:
I thought at first glance this would be a fantastic deal but I'm not going to take a chance with any 3TB HD -- because there are problems supporting more than 2.19TB.http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/pc-peripheral/3258206/western-digital-caviar-green-3tb-review/I'll just stick to great deals on 2TB drives, easier. |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/19/13 |
Cons: none
Pros: one of the best for NAS box's Comment:
One of the best for NAS system until the red drive was release.. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/24/13 |
Cons: ots of space, good price, quiet ConsSlow compared to red/black WD drives SummaryOwned 2 of these for a couple years, never had any problems (with any WD drive actually). Price keeps dropping, fairly quiet & efficient. Slower than the red/black lines of drives but for the price a great deal.
Pros: ots of space, good price, quiet ConsSlow compared to red/black WD drives SummaryOwned 2 of these for a couple years, never had any problems (with any WD drive actually). Price keeps dropping, fairly quiet & efficient. Slower than the red/black lines of drives but for the price a great deal. Comment:
ots of space, good price, quiet ConsSlow compared to red/black WD drives SummaryOwned 2 of these for a couple years, never had any problems (with any WD drive actually). Price keeps dropping, fairly quiet & efficient. Slower than the red/black lines of drives but for the price a great deal. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/23/13 |
Cons: None so far.
Pros: A lot of space.Not very expensive ($138) Comment:
Now the warranty is only 2 years for Green drives (previously 3 years), but Seagate offers only 1 year.I had to update 'Intel rapid storage manager' because the OS (Windows 7 Pro) only showed the disk as 746GB unit.I'm using it as secondary disk, mostly for backups. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/21/13 |
Cons: Slow compared to red/black WD drives
Pros: Lots of space, good price, quiet Comment:
Owned 2 of these for a couple years, never had any problems (with any WD drive actually). Price keeps dropping, fairly quiet & efficient. Slower than the red/black lines of drives but for the price a great deal. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/10/13 |
Cons: None so far
Pros: Runs cool and quietLots of space Comment:
nice way to add secondary storage. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/03/13 |
Cons: not a lot i can say about the product, very please actually
Pros: A very good product, trustworthy brand must I add, the price is justifiable. Overall pleased with it. Comment:
A very good product, trustworthy brand must I add, the price is justifiable. Overall pleased with it. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/20/13 |
Cons: Didn't work for me. BIOS sees it as a 801.6GB HDD. Win Vista x64 Disk Management shows only 746GB.
Pros: Looks nice. Comment:
I tried connecting this to the Intel ICH10 controller on my mobo. BIOS shows it as a 801.6GB. Why? Don't know. I have a few other WD 2TB Green drives connected to the same controller, and they are all recognized just fine, so I expected that this one will also be seen as at least a 2TB drive. But no, it only shows as 801.6GBWill return it and get a 2TB drive instead. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/13/13 |
Cons: slow speeds but it was not designed for high transfer speeds, still fast enough to stream tons of content.
Pros: Price Vs. capacity is great,silent... Comment:
WD has established a more then reliable name in manufacturing disk media. They spent a lot of time building a good name and and work hard to protect that name. knowing this I buy WD drives with confidence I am getting a device I will be happy with.Every hdd is going to fail at some point but WD drives in reasonable usage conditions relay do consistently hit the advertised MTBF numbers. If they say this drive will last on avgrage 1,000,000.0 hours "fictional number" it really will along as you give it the operational conditions suggested on the website. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/11/13 |
Cons: Slower but that is part of the design.
Pros: Good price.Low power.Quiet. Comment:
I have been running this in a file server (primarily used for backups) for four months without a problem. I've had several of these drives and they have all worked well. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/08/13 |
Cons: slower data rate (but still adequate)
Pros: lots of storage for cheap Comment:
I love the green drives for storage -- price and efficiency make up for the access rates -- which are still good enough for streaming movies to multiple sources from the same disk on my network (HD) |
Just a note, check the warranty on WD's site when you get your drives. If it's incorrect, contact their support, and send them a copy of your invoice. They'll update the warranty time based on time of purchase.