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

The Western Digital Caviar Green line of SATA HDDs ranging from 500GB to 2TB capacities. Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB Hard Drive is designed to be fast but the prime focus is on power conservation and capacity.

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.

The Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB drive overcomes a boundary that has taken hard drive manufacturers quite some time to overcome, but it falls short of wowing us. The overall performance of the drive is extremely lacking and we found that even as a backup drive, it lacked the speed that it's...

Two months ago I looked at the world's first 3TB desktop hard drive . It was a 5 platter, 3TB Seagate Barracuda XT inside an external GoFlex Desk chassis. The performance of the drive wasn't anything out of the ordinary, but the poorly ventilated chassis seemed ill equipped to deal with the thermal...

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...

Rules were made to be broken; that whole 55 MPH thing happens to be my favorite. Western Digital had larger aspirations; the kinds that considered milestones. Reaching the 750GB per platter mark is definitely in the milestone category and that is what Western Digital is releasing today.

The headline-grabbing capacity of three whole terabytes is what really makes this Western Digital Caviar Green HDD stand out, but is there anything more to it than sheer size? With the focus squarely on the burgeoning SSD market it would be all too easy to overlook spinning platter drives.

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...

W estern Digital's WD 30EZRS certainly looks an attractive storage solution with an enormous 3 TB capacity and a 64 MB cache. The new 3TB internal hard drive for desktops looks like a good option for those who want to store a ton of movies, software, games and images.