Kris M
03/24/13
Experience: 0 Days
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Seems like a great dead...
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...but if you are running Windows be prepared for issues.
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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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canislupuss
03/19/13
Experience: 1 Years
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one of the best for NAS box's
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none
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One of the best for NAS system until the red drive was release..
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Guy_D
02/23/13
Experience: 2 Months
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A lot of space.
Not very expensive ($138)
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None so far.
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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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Jeremy_B
02/21/13
Experience: 2 Years
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Lots of space, good price, quiet
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Slow compared to red/black WD drives
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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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Vincent_P
02/10/13
Experience: 1 Months
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Runs cool and quiet
Lots of space
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None so far
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nice way to add secondary storage.
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Vlad_28
01/20/13
Experience: 3 Days
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Looks nice.
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Didn't work for me.
BIOS sees it as a 801.6GB HDD.
Win Vista x64 Disk Management shows only 746GB.
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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 801.6GB
Will return it and get a 2TB drive instead.
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Darcy Wood
01/13/13
Experience: 3 Days
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Price Vs. capacity is great,
silent...
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slow speeds but it was not designed for high transfer speeds, still fast enough to stream tons of content.
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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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tnr
01/11/13
Experience: 4 Months
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Good price.
Low power.
Quiet.
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Slower but that is part of the design.
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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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Doug_S
01/08/13
Experience: 4 Months
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lots of storage for cheap
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slower data rate (but still adequate)
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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)
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LSD
01/01/13
Experience: 30 Days
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Tons of space
Fairly quiet
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none
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Have always bought Western Digital hard drives and have never had one fail on me yet (knocks on wood). Tons of space at a good price if you catch it on sale. Also installed without any issue on my big bang xpower mobo
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matt_leblanc
12/31/12
Experience: 1 Months
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Quiet, relatively cool, lots of space
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N/A
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Bought to update one of my full 2tb drives and is the same model as those. I have been running the WD greens for storage for a few years, they are quiet and reliable. All my seagate drives have died within 2-3 years and all the WD greens are still going strong.
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Matt_G
12/30/12
Experience: 1 Months
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Just works, despite hearing earlier reviews about it not working properly with some NAS or enclosures.
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None that I can see.
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Works without issue. Had no problems having it detected with my NAS or external enclosure.
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Christopher_W
12/27/12
Experience: 8 Months
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Good space to cost ratio
Works well with W7 x64
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Slower than the WD Blacks
Only one year warranty
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I have two of these and they worked with no problems at all, right out of the OEM package.
Format to a slightly larger block size, and used to backup large archived files (7Zip many small ones into a single file). The larger block size makes file transfer faster, but will waste space on small files.
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Danseaview
12/26/12
Experience: 1 Weeks
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High capacity, Low noise, Can run video
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None
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Great little storage drive for the money. I have a reasonable loud rig but I've spun it up by itself and it's pretty inaudible. I also store a lot of video on the drive and it's able to play it fine so it suites all my needs.
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Jason_B
12/23/12
Experience: 5 Months
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lots of space for the price
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slower than most
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Would by again if I was in need of a additional storage for my computer. But I will stick with other drives if speed is a must.
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Sébastien
12/16/12
Experience: 3 Months
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Good price
Good Performance
Low noise
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Need driver so that the OS can deal with the drive
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Cheap and efficient. Can't go wrong with that drive. I am going to buy one more and configure it in RAID 0 for my backups.
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Eric_B
12/14/12
Experience: 30 Days
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very good low cost solution
effective no problem
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none
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great capacity ,fast transfer,own 4 of thems never had a problem with those hd ,great stuff
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Mike_H
11/25/12
Experience: 60 Days
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Good size decent price.
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Slow storage for any active writing.
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Works as intended never had one die. Warranty is automatic.
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Henry1
11/14/12
Experience: 1 Months
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Quiet
Great price per GB
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3TB can be a hassle with some systems
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Got this for $139.99 for backup storage, so far it's been working flawlessly. Getting my system to recognize the entire HDD (2.7TB) wasn't plug and play but it wasn't too difficult either.
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AceOnRiv
10/27/12
Experience: 3 Days
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nice drive
price/gb is good
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none
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installed one for my friend's build, so far so good. it would definitely take some time to fill it up.
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Tired8281
10/26/12
Experience: 30 Days
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Large size, runs pretty cool
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Harder to use 3TB drives in Windows, but that's the same for all 3TB not just this one
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Bought this to consolidate the contents of my other drives before building a NAS server. Worked perfectly in that capacity, AND it only took about 13 hours to transfer the entire contents of this drive (which was full by the time I'd copied everything off of every other drive in my house) on to the NAS server. I figured it would take a week!
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Dean_C
10/19/12
Experience: 1 Days
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Fast transfer rate, over 800Gb in just under 2hrs
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None so far other then get educated on the GPT/MDR Change, took me for a loop and I was what the f... only 2TB....and well over 800Gb left in the wind, so ya get educate with the GPT change for 3TB and bigger HD's.
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Took me a bit to get it fully formatted as I had to Change it to the new GPT format before I could do anything but so far so good no complaints.
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Owen_H
10/19/12
Experience: 5 Months
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great drives for storage
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none, its a hard drive...its hard and it drives
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I have 3 of these in a raid 5 config and they are quite, very fast for there role and were easy to install and set-up.
WD is my goto for storage drives.
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Briar_R
10/18/12
Experience: 1 Weeks
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Quiet, 3TB, Western Digital
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None
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I bought this hard drive for storage to accompany my SSD RAID setup which is used for OS and applications.
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mathieu_g
10/18/12
Experience: 2 Years
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Best HD I have ever purchased.
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NONE!
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Recently, I bought 3 of these and I never had any problem. They are quiet and provide good performance.
I only buy HD from WD now.
In total, I must have 10+ caviar green hard drives from 2 months to 2 years of ownership and I never had any issues with any of them.
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Saberon
10/15/12
Experience: 3 Months
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Quiet
Massive storage for a decent price (post-flood pricing)
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2 Year Warranty
Head parks every ~8 seconds
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Overall I've been very happy with this as a storage drive. Works flawlessly in a Vantec Nexstar CX USB3 enclosure.
Will update review if things change.
edit: 3 month update. Drive has NUMEROUS problems, drops out of windows, MFT errors, incorrect capacity reporting. RMA time =(
This review was modfied by poster @ 01-17-13 06:13 PM
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William_L
10/12/12
Experience: 1 Months
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lots of space
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compatibility
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very good reliable drive, had a slight problem with an older hard drive dock that didn't support 3tb drives. so check your equipment if it supports this size. otherwise. highly recommended as a storage drive
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Niavlyscire
09/19/12
Experience: 3 Days
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- Tons of storage space
- Very low powered
- Hardly no noise compared to my WD Black 1Tb
- Nice speeds for a 5400RPM drive
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- First drive shipped needed to be RMA'd, but 2nd drive works as expected
- Not ultra-fast like an SSD
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So my first drive made ticking and scratchy sounds, but after sending it back for RMA, the 2nd one works as expected. The drive is quite, low-powered, with tons of space, and is surprisingly fast. I get a max of 110 mb/s writes, and I think around 150mb/s reads (not 100% sure on the reads). But for a 5400rpm drive, I'm impressed and fully satisfied. This drive will make for a great media storage drive.
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Eric_F
09/18/12
Experience: 3 Days
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good all around
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none
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works well enough as a massive storage. Speed honest enough with sata3
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Wizdem
09/06/12
Experience: 3 Months
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Large disk capacity.
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- Somehow data corruption occurred under Win7 x64 using GPT
- Older data recovery tools will not work
- Better to have MB bios to support this large drive
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Good drive size to store data, but it's better to have MB to support the drive. Didn't have a good experience, after loosing data, because of disk corruption.
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Kekalot
08/16/12
Experience: 1 Days
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not pricey, lost of storage, low power usage
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not super fast
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Those drives aren't the fastest drives around (compared to the Black line of drives) but they do the job for mass storage in general. I use mine for a backup of an external drive and then store them in a little safe (for safekeeping ;)
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Jean-Philippe_T
08/14/12
Experience: 3 Months
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Quiet
High capacity
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None so far
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Purchase two of these for heavy storage and encountered no prob. so far. Great hard drives and have been always loyal to WD as I have no failure with their drives since years.
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David Hasselhoff Jr.
07/25/12
Experience: 1 Months
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Capacity, reasonable value l $139.99
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More expensive than a year ago, and less warranty.
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Seagate has a point with "green where it counts" in regard to power consumption. However, 5400 RPM still seems the sweet spot for bulk storage as performance is adequate while minimizing noise and vibration/resonance (although that's less of a problem with recent models). Two year warranty is not as good as three, but better than one. Would recommend.
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bit_NINj4
07/19/12
Experience: 2 Weeks
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data storage capacity size
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green..
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Purchased two drives for backup to mirror them. One in system and the other off site. Have tested both two days straight before adding data. Slow drives, but large capacity. No issues yet. Would buy again, but by the time I need to, there should be 4TB drives available.
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gramboh
07/17/12
Experience: 1 Weeks
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* 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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* Load/unload (head parking) is way too aggressive at stock settings (parks every 5 seconds, which is excessive and leads to wear and tear)
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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.
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kevin_k
07/14/12
Experience: 1 Days
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cheap price when on sale
lots of data
reliable
western digital
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faster hard drives do exist for almost same price
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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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Patrick_O
07/10/12
Experience: 14 Days
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Great drive for 139.99$; still great WD products
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None whatsoever
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Great drive for 139.99$; still great WD products
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Qing_S
07/05/12
Experience: 3 Days
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huge volume, quiet
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none
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I use it for storage. It does not matter whether it is fast.
Stability is the most important. I will come back to report its stability after several months.
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Ergo93
06/30/12
Experience: 1 Weeks
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fast enough for storage and really silent
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nope
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For backup and storage it's fast enough no complaint.
I had to put my hand on it just to be sure it was working at first.
When on sale it's the best
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Master__Shake_PP
06/27/12
Experience: 7 Days
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Great space for a great price
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none so far
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i bought this drive to house all my backups from the random hard drives in my computer.
write speeds and read speeds are ok nothing to write home about, but for 160 dollars on sale you can;t complain.
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Samuel_B
06/24/12
Experience: 1 Weeks
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Fast reliable HDD. Quite a deal at 139$ !! Quiet and cool
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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
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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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Sherman_H
06/19/12
Experience: 40 Days
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Stable large capacity drive
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None
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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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Eric_L
06/16/12
Experience: 3 Months
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Great, reliable, green!!
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None!
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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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Joffrey_E
06/07/12
Experience: 1 Days
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great storage hdd
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non
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I always go with Western digital! they never crashed on me!!
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Helene_F
06/01/12
Experience: 2 Weeks
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Lots of space, run silent. Easy to install.
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Price still high, some Os won't recognize > 2 TB.
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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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XxaP
05/23/12
Experience: 30 Days
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tonnes of space, Western Digital quality and price.
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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.
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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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Basement_Lurker
05/10/12
Experience: 1 Months
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-excellent value storage
-sata3 connection
-cheap
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-cheapest built drive (meaning questionable reliability)
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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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Louis_C
05/03/12
Experience: 1 Years
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Huge capacity
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RAID glitches now and then
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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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Robdugas
03/02/12
Experience: 30 Days
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I like the size and specs of the 3G drive
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Concerned about the reliability of the drive
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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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Tyler_W
01/05/12
Experience: 1 Months
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good mass storage drive, lower voltage
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not as fast as I would have liked
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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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