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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

As a newly introduced hard drive, the 3TB Caviar Green is at its cost zenith. That should start to dip significantly over the next few months. If you can't wait, the only thing you're out is the extra money. Added capacity and lower maintenance issues are genuine pluses.