The fact is the drive is still alive after a long use as a storage drive (external), fast enough for USB 2.0 Transfer, not noisy at all..

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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What are technological limitations when you have history to make? That must have been Western Digital's controlling thought process when conceiving its latest Caviar Green drive.

Highest-capacity hard drive on the market

Slow for a 3.5-inch drive; Will not work in Windows XP systems; May require an adapter card; Cannot be used as a boot drive on most PCs

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.

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