Ever needed to store a few 100,000 photos on one hard drive? This could be right up your street.

Mechanical hard disks are looking unfashionable these days as solid-state storage filters into the mainstream. But they're still much cheaper and can offer vastly greater storage capacities, as Western Digital's monster 3TB disk – the largest we've seen to date – demonstrates.

"...be plenty. I've never used Western Digital before but had read good reviews and after Seagate drives failing one too many times I decided to go for this one. Firstly, it installed easily but that was to be expected.

Not as big as expected but still huge

Not as big as expected but still huge

One of my drives died some time ago and I was looking for a high capacity/cheap replacement. It has been about 2 months since I got this. So far no problems. It is much more faster than the other drives, so they limit always the transmission of files.

Since today's multimedia files eat space faster than many realize, capacity has become the premier selling point for hard drives rather than shear speed. After all, when you are talking about a product that is bred for the highest amount of storage space rather than a drive that houses an OS and...

- While a good value it still is a lot of money for one drive, - Not recommended for an OS drive; Rather, wait for the Black version, - Only a 3 year warranty

item received in perfect condition and packaged securely.

If you just want a big drive for storing photos, music, and movies, then this will serve that purpose. I have had it for a month with no issues so far.

Lots of storage

Not the fastest drive

Western Digital recently introduced a line of "GreenPower" hard drives that "deliver power savings as the primary attribute." A typical hard drives takes up …

Average performance; Very quiet; Reduces power consumption in PCs; 3-year warranty

Not the fastest drive in it's class

As usual Dell did not let me down. My XPS needed more space. Logged on picked out what I needed, ordered and all was good with the world.

Rezing it to 2TB and 1TB using my licensed copy of EASEUS Partition Master did not help. Disappointed but it was a good try. I'll try another model 3TB from WD or from another OEM.

Under $90 for a 3TB is a great buy; WD HDD reputation; Systems recognized it and did the usual initializating, formatting, etc

I consider this HDD from WD a DOA for me; Windows just would not format this HDD; I tried formatting it as a GPT and MBR, both failed; Since I planned on having this HDD as an internal 2nd drive and not a boot drive I thought the process would be a breeze.