The green technology movement is obviously in full swing now. Better efficiency through technological innovation has a trickle down effect to many facets of life style, technology and the environment.

We are taking a break from SSD previews to bring you a retail edition review of the Western Digital 2TB Caviar Green .  PCPer reviews are typically on the bleeding edge of fast and nimble hardware, but we must occasionally take a step over to the other side of the storage spectrum.  Today we will

WD's 3TB Caviar Green is the first internal hard drive to breach the 2.19TB barrier. We probe its performance, noise levels, power consumption, and...

Pricing is where this drive really shines as it keeps up with the likes of the Hitachi Deskstar 3TB at but has a better, more recognized branding behind it that the Hitachi simply lacks due to bad press in the past.

I have a confession to make, I'm a pack rat. There, I've said it. I can't seem to get rid of my old stuff. I keep finding new ways to re-purpose it. The same goes for the stuff on my hard drive. I just keep using up more space.

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.

Quiet Operation; Low power usage; Plenty of Storage; Runs Cool

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Great drive but you may need some techie skills to get it to be seen on an older motherboard. Im not a techie, so I cant really explain like they would. I bought the drive (didn't know I needed to reaserch it!). delivered quick. Put it in my dell optiplex 960 computer, it didnt see it.

Last week my 1GB Apple Time Capsule fell onto the floor, destroying the hard drive. I ordered this drive as a replacement. It took me about 15 minutes to install in the Time Capsule and less than five to erase with Disk Utility. After that, it mounted and has worked flawlessly ever since.

Easy To Install; Fast; Highly Compatible; Quiet; Reliable

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I bought 4 of these drives for my Drobo Network Storage Drive Quiet and speedy, these drives work really well in my Drobo. I would not hesitate to buy them again Looking for the pricing on the larger sized drives to come down further before upg...

The Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB is an energy-efficient 3TB hard disk, designed to save power using Western Digital's Intellipower technology, which uses a variety of caching algorithms to get the best possible performance from the disk's 5,400rpm spin speed.