These days many consumers and enthusiasts are looking for massive storage capacities, and for more than a year the largest capacity desktop hard drive that you could buy was 2TB. All that changed today when Western Digital announced the world's first 3.0 Terabyte drive that is available for internal...

The news that shocked everyone on Tuesday was Western Digitals formal announcement of the new WD Caviar? Green? 3Terabytes spindle hard drive. For many months rumours had been flying about the Seagate had one ready in the pipeline. But that Western Digital was nearing launch.

I ordered four of these drives, 3TB Desktop Mainstream HDD Retail Kit (WD30EZRX,Green), after one of my 4 year old Seagate HDDs failed in my Synology NAS device. I ordered on a Tuesday, best price I could find anywhere on the Internet (especially for retail kit), with the free expedited shipping and...

This is a great drive. HD Tach gets 348.8mb/s burst and avg read is 121.5mb/s.

I have purchased two of these in the last month, to use in a PC which will be used simply as a media hub in a living room. There is no fancy setup involved, I was going to mirror them, but they are simply run as two individual drives. The performance is very good, they run cool and extremely quiet.

Product works great! I Received it very quickly, easy to install and lots of storage space for my files.

I have been using this HDD for approx two months now and I must say it has performed perfectly. Being a Green model the HDD is very quiet. Haing 3tb of storage is awesome. Transfer speeds are also excellent achieving approx 100 -130 MBytes per second HDD to HDD.

Excellent SATA HDD

I've been buying WD drives for the past 10 years and only had one drive failure. This is a company you can trust for the best drives for home use. I highly recommend WD. This WD Green 3TB drive is no exception. Very good drive for the money.

Overall a good drive, the only reason if lost a star was because I needed to adjust wdidle3 to prevent it from failing prematurely.