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17.08.2012
8/10
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I bought the earlier model of the WD Green 1 TB drive about 3 years ago, and it is still going strong even now. As such, I was not reluctant to purchase the newer, larger model a few days ago.It arrived right on time (2 Days b/c of Prime) in very secure packaging that made me confident it couldn't have been damaged even from an high distance drop during the shipping.It was fairly simple to install, but I did have two main issues with the installation. It does not come with any mounting screws at all, and I am lucky I had a few laying around in my garage so it was not too inconvenient for me. Also, it does not come with a SATA cable or a power cord, and, again, I was fortunate to have one set of those also.Took a few minutes to figure out how to get it to show up in 64 bit Windows, but after hitting Start and right clicking on "Computer," all you have to do is hit "Manage" and go to "Disk Management" under the "Storage" heading. Then the hard drive will show up, and you can format it from there.I did not use the Quick format option, and it took about 6 1/2 hours to format. After that, I immediately backed up 667 Gb of data to the drive, and it only took ~2 hrs or so.In summary:Packaging: 5 StarsEase of Installation: 2.5 StarsPerformance (So Far): 5 StarsSpeed: 4 Stars--Transfers great for storage purposes, but you probably would want faster for gaming purposes.Overall, it is a great hard drive.
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01.04.2013
6/10
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Плохо
Well, I'm currently trying to use this with a USB adapter as photo/video storage.When it's working, it works well enough and isn't particularly loud.However, mine either has problems or there's some issue with the automatic disc parking that's causing it to lose the connection with my PC. Maybe this is due to USB....I don't know. What I've read on the interwebz gives me the impression that the Blue model is the one to go with. When asked, all WD support has had to say is that it is not designed to be use as an external drive...which is strange because I've never heard of a bare HD having to be "designed" for use in an enclosure.
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28.01.2013
2/10
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First-table This is not about the brand, WD hard drives have behave well in the pass time its mostly about a mistake and the company client consideration, I have ordered a $146 USD 2.5 TB hard drive and instead they send me a 300GB huh?, I sent an email to the company explaining every thing and asking what would be possible to do to fix their mistakeand all they did was send me a stupid email with a copy and paste of a policy saying that they are not responsible of items out of the US (maybe understandable :/ ) but I emailed them back sort of like clarifying like "this is it?" and never replay me back so I had to re-order another hard drive OF COURSE NOT FROM THEM ! and it arrived good and fast, because of them I end up spending over $300us when I was just supposed to spend $146 :/ NOT COOL …. antonline
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04.01.2013
10/10
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I know we don't want to admit that different HDD's are for different things so we buy the cheapest one then complain when it doesn't do what we want. This reason is the largest reason drives get low scores. The other two reasons being DOA's (it happens) and user error.Green's are meant for data storage. A place to put information -like movies, so it can be accessed from time to time. It's not meant as an OS drive/boot drive. If you try and play games from it speed will suffer. It is an energy efficient, cost efficient, cheap storage device. The Black's and raptors are meant for your OS and gaming (or better an SSD). The Reds for your redundancy systems (raids, NAS, etc).Order the right HDD! Once you have the right one, resist the urge to copy your entire collection of all 30,000 Simpson episodes over until after you have done a full and thorough scan of the drive.
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07.03.2013
10/10
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I purchased 3 of these to use as pool drives in a Windows Homer Server verision 1 computer. I am using an older, non-advanced format drive as the system drive.From my research, WHS v1 will work with drives up to 2 TB. This is an Advanced Format Drive that has the jumpers to allow the jumpering of pins 7-8 to work with older operating systems like Win XP and WHS v1.WDC has documentation on jumpering pins 7-8 for use in older OS'es. I could not determine if the newer version of these drives supported the jumpering of pins 7-8 or not. So I purchased these on other reviews they would work in this situtation.They install and work as expected for me.
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25.03.2013
2/10
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The purchased 3-Tb hard drive's heads crashed within the first week and drive returned to Western Digital (WD) for replacement; the 1st replacement failed upon arrival and was returned to WD which shipped a 2nd replacement that also failed upon arrival and then returned to WD. WD received the 2nd replacement 5 days ago, but today rep says there's no units in-stock this week and advised that I wait 5 more days then call back. Cheee..... Consistently poor reliability and now delays replacing failed replacement. I'll never buy another Western Digital hard drive.
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25.12.2011
10/10
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I have a total of seven of these drives between 6 on a raid array on one PC and one as a data drive (non raid) in another PC.They are slower at RPM speed than some other drives, at 5400 RPM so if you are someone who "needs" a 7200 RPM drive then you do not need this.They are however the CHEAPEST, MOST RELIABLE CHEAP drive out there. Unlike some brands who will sell you a 5400rpm drive for this, or the various drawbacks from externals, this drive is inexpensive, not annoying in its "green" power management (or needing to have it shut off) and its fast, I get good speed in my 6gb/sec Sata3 port, and overall think its great that for this price, I get a drive with a 3 year warranty, reasonably fast transfer rates despite a lower RPM (RPM is not everything apparently) and its a Western Digital (and not lower on quality) for the price.Western Digital have been reliable drives for me, for many years. I have some going back as far as 8 years old and still running (that does not mean one has never died) but it's not common. It's more common that the storage size becomes too small for me and gets it shelved than the drive fails.I am optimistic by the early performance of these Caviar Greens that I will continue to use these for a 3tb drive. For 2tb drives I prefer the Caviar Black (which is not made in 3tb size). I was apprehensive to go to another brand, so chose WD's lower line rather than risk a brand who has not performed well for me for years.Five stars are for the value, and the fact it delivers. I would like to see a 7200rpm 3tb from WD someday come around, such as a Caviar Black 3tb, but until they do, I am happy to buy these, despite I usually buy the Blacks (I do need bigger than 2tb occasionally) or like for my raid array which runs 6 3tb caviar greens, wanted the array to be bigger then 6 2tb blacks would achieve.Buy this drive with a clean conscience, it will work for you, and work well. I never have had a DOA from WD, I am sure it happens, but I have 6 pcs, and for that to never have happened, is great.WD! Caviar! and this time GREEN ain't that bad.In fact for its price, you cannot beat it.
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18.03.2013
10/10
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Western Digital drives are a good product. This is my fourth WD internal drive (I also have WD external drives). Two are currently installed in my computer. A 320gb WD drive was replaced a couple years ago with a 1tb WD drive, not because it failed, but for a larger capacity drive. A nice feature is WD Acronis TrueImage that enables the operating system, program files, data files to be transitioned to the new drive. Another thing I like about WD "green" drives is that they run slower when idle. I'm very pleased with this new drive and look forward to many years of use.
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25.02.2013
10/10
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My son was on a budget, and wanted as much space as his money would buy. My goal was 2TB but I found that most hard drives over 1TB had absolutely terrible ratings. I have had great luck with Western Digital drives in the past, and these green series drives have been no exception. I bought some 1TB green drives almost 4 years ago now - and they have been running night and day in a server at work without a single failure.It was worth throwing in a couple of extra bucks to get a *reliable* 2TB hard drive. No firmware updates or other nonsense necessary. We have had this drive for several months now, and no problems to speak of yet.
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15.02.2013
10/10
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Considering that I paid $599 for a 52MB IDE drive in 1987...I'd have to say that things have come a long way. Anyway, I installed this drive in my (late 2009) 27" iMac and aside from not having special "Apple firmware" to report its temp to the system properly, it works great! It is a rather quiet drive and its performance is as expected! A work around for the Apple firmware issue which causes the system fans to spin at 6000rpm is to download a piece of software that utilizes the drives S.M.A.R.T. technology to report the drive temps to the MB. Once this is installed the fans calm down instantaneously!
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19.02.2013
10/10
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I'm using this drive strictly as an external harddrive. After having one too many unpleasant experiences with externals, I decided I could have more security and control over the process by building it myself. I've been using the 2TB WD green for almost 3 weeks now. Its write speed is a lot faster than my last external drive, and it's great for streaming movies. I was concerned after reading some of the one star reviews, but it seems that those unfortunate people received drives that were dead on arrival. If you get a drive that isn't damaged or defective, this is a great option.
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14.12.2012
2/10
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In spite of all the negative reviews, I purchased this drive back in August purely for its capacity, hoping that it won't be that bad. Two days ago I started hearing some noise and a utility revealed several SMART attributes were in the hot zone. The drive was partitioned into 6 GPT partitions, and the very last partition became RAW all of the sudden. A chkdsk /B revealed many bad sectors on the entire disk, and it's only been less than 4 months, and the drive was used for reading most of the time. I used to like WD more than SG, but now I think they are just the same. They keep increasing the capacity, but the quality declines. These WD caviar green drives are anything but green -- electronic waste is hazardous.Consider twice before making the purchase, because 3TB is a lot of data to lose.
Скроменый эксперт
18.12.2012
8/10
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Хорошо
I purchased this drive to use for expansion and primarily to store video files and for archival purposes. It has run for several months without any issues or problems.Like:- Compatibility with my desktop hardware and software- Lots of space and the drive is fast for copying and retrieving files, especially videosDislike:There were no real issues installing or setting up the drive, it is just that as a Linux user I had to carefully define the parameters to the hard drive utility. This is more of a technical setup that is related to very large hard drives and may not be relevant for other OSes.I was skeptical of buying another WD green drive since I had problems with a 500GB drive that failed after a few years, but so far this drive has been running and performing as required.
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18.01.2013
10/10
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So far I haven't had any issues with this drive, it's not too loud but still not too slow, and for the price is a fairly good deal.I've been using it as a recording drive for footage from games mostly, meaning that it constantly gets written too and then has stuff deleted, moved, and changed in general. So I've kept it fairly active and the only issue I ever have had is that when trying to load multiple sections of footage, it can sometimes take a couple seconds to buffer ahead a bit. If you want a storage drive then this is good, but if you're trying to have multiple programs accessing it at the same time it can lag a bit, for my uses this hasn't been an issue though.
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18.03.2013
10/10
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Since 2 of my Seagate and a samsung HDD died this year, I decide to move to Western Digital as the only HDD I have working 24/7 for years without problem is my WD raptor. The price of this 3TB is good even if it's not the best, but I think that you pay for the best quality, it does't make noise, and the speed is ok for a green version. I use it in my media server and you can see HD videos without problem on various PC at the same time. So I'm happy with my new HDD.
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16.02.2013
10/10
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Mounted in a 5.25 hot swap bay as I don't have room elsewhere in this computer. The old 7200 drive in this slot was hot and noisy, around 48C. This green drive in the same slot runs at 33C despite the poor airflow, and is virtually silent. I can barely hear it if there is no other noise, and a virus scan is taking place with lots of seeks. Otherwise it may as well be silent, as the SSD does all the work.Slow is relative, being a green drive it still has good throughput, but seeks will be slow if used as an OS drive. Excellent storage/media drive.
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11.09.2012
10/10
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Received the drive a day early. Plus.No screws, but it said this in the description. Come on, really, you cannot insert four screws?No cable, ditto, said in the description. I do not recall any drive I ever purchased where it came with a cable.Installation went fine - no plus or minus to WD. Good design goes to HP.The software was readily available via a google search to the WD site.The imaging, however, did not tell me I *needed* to create a boot disk. I tried to clone twice without a boot disk and it did not clone.I created a boot disk, boot, and began the clone process. It is at about 75% right now.Well, I will have to come back and update later.Update: The clone process, as they call it, took about 90 minutes. Your time may vary due to hard-drive speed and capacity. My old drive was 500GB and 5400 RPM.I rebooted to ensure the new drive did indeed have the right files on it and it did. I just like to double check things.Powered down, swapped the SATA cables from old to new - left both drives in, but now the old one is the boot drive.Rebooted and everything is splendid. Thank you WD!
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20.02.2013
10/10
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I have two of these. One I have had for a while, at least more than 6 months, and the other I just purchased. I guess you need to know how to format/partition the drive to get Win7 to see it. My son had a little trouble doing this, though I don't remember having any trouble when I installed mine. Though the performance is slow, the supposedly green features make it worth it. So far so good. I use Windows Media Center to record the local PBS channel using a digital antenna. Thus I am thinking of getting another one.
Скроменый эксперт
22.06.2011
8/10
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Though Western Digital has been in the hard drive business a very long time, this is my first time ever using a Western Digital drive, and my experience so far has been positive. While it's a bit difficult to comment on a drive I've only had for a few days, I'll do my best to sort out the important points.First, the drive's speed is good. I've installed this as an external drive, so it's likely to be much faster when stored internally. But even so, I was able to start video from it without any delay. Drives (especially from a few years ago) often have a slight lag when spinning up from its idle state, but I haven't noticed any such lag in this drive. In my completely non-technical testing, transferring data back and forth from this drive to various other sources seems to average about 35 seconds per gigabyte. This is good, but fairly comparable to many other drives today. The installation process was also fairly comparable to other drives available today. If you've ever installed hard drives before, then you should have no problem here (though this usually depends more on your operating system than anything else). There are no quirks to the process with this drive; it is as straight-forward as possible.Since the low noise level always seems to be an important selling point, I should also mention that the drive is certainly quiet. You'll need to be less than a few inches away in a silent room in order to hear this thing spin up. This means that if you're installing it internally then you'll never be able to hear it over the computer fans. Also, I've had issues in the past with drives getting very hot (especially when stacked together), but even in my fan-less external enclosure, this Western Digital drive stays pretty cool to the touch. After a long formatting session, the drive was a bit warm, but nowhere near the point of overheating. As for the "Green" technology, it's difficult for me to judge. I have the drive hooked to an A/C output, so power efficiency isn't really a concern. If you're planning to upgrade your laptop with this drive, then I suppose it would become important for battery life. For those who are either planning to use this as an external like me or those who are putting it into a desktop, then I doubt it's going to make a difference either way.Overall, it seems to be a quality drive which I can find no faults in. The drive's speed and the installation process are fairly typical, the (low) noise level is excellent, and the "Green" technology could be very useful depending on how you plan on using the drive. At under $100, the drive is definitely a great deal.
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24.03.2013
10/10
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I edit video using Sony Vegas. I work off this hard drive using AVCHD files in 1080p. No problems. Fast enough for me. Quiet too. I used to have two really fast drives on a Raid stripping system until I figured out that hard drive speed is rarely the limiting factor for speed issues when editing video (spend money on more RAM and a good video card). I'm happy with this purchase.
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15.12.2012
4/10
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I purchased two of these drives to complete a home server. Less than 24 hours after first use one of the drives failed and was not usable. I returned it to Amazon. I installed the new drive and everything was working properly for 5 days, then both drives failed. I tried running some diagnostics and NAS tools on the drives, but nothing worked.Unfortunately, I am away at work for long periods of time and I missed my return/full refund window for the drives. Luckily, my data is backed up on a separate drive and nothing important was completely lost. The server was unplugged for the duration of my work trips.I would not recommend this drive due to such a high (in my opinion) failure rate in such a short time.
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01.04.2013
10/10
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I use this to store Acronis backups. I use this as a removable drive. No complaints.Using a SATA III as the source drive and this as the target, I am about to back up 560GB (compresses to about 450GB) in about 2 hours using Acronis bare metal backup.This is a lot less painful than the 4 hours it used to take me to back up to a SATA II drive.
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30.01.2013
10/10
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I use these for my machine for storage. The fact that they shut down after not being used is very awesome. I literally could count the dollars I have saved from these not spinning up all the time. If you are seeking storage solutions, these green drives should suit your needs.The quality is amazing and well-built. I have smaller Western Digital Caviar Green hard drives and it has been 2-4 years so far without any problems.I have read reviews in the past that people tried to RAID these. If you are going to put drives in RAID, DO NOT USE GREEN DRIVES.
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31.10.2012
10/10
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System - Win 8 Pro x64, GPT partition, SATA_2 port, H77 chipsetWith all the, um, *stuff* you currently have lying around that needs a lot of space, look no further. WD's Green drives are the best at bulk storage. They sip power and can hold a stack of *stuff*. Don't bother using them as a boot drive, because they are substantially slow - loading files can take an additional 4-5 seconds occasionally as the drives wake up and access times are rather crap - you'd want an SSD at the very least in 2012 for a boot drive. As a secondary drive, they certainly fit the bill. The biggest problem is that 3TB is simply not enough anymore, and Hitachi's 4TB HDD's are overpriced. Come on, WD, bring out the 6TB 3.5" slabs.Oh, also if you are running XP, get a modern OS that wasn't built back when VHS's were popular, 3TB is not natively supported without clunky workarounds.
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