WD30EZRX Western Digital Caviar Green Hard Drive WD30EZRX

This is a good 3TB Hard Drive, but my only issue with it isn't specific to this hard drive, it's just how Windows Vista/7 and 8 handles drives bigger than 2TB. (XP doesn't support volumes bigger than 2TB at all) For years, Windows had used something called "MBR" which was limited to 2TB Volume sizes and now they have an Alternative called "GPT" and you can format a drive to boot using GPT, but the problem is you need a Computer that has UEFI in order to boot from it and without UEFI, you can't boot from partition bigger than 2TB, but I can have it be a secondary storage drive as one 3TB Volume holding Videos or Steam Backups or you can just use 2TB for windows and either have the other 1TB unallocated or use that other 1TB for Linux or something. (which is what I did, 2TB for Windows, 1TB for Linux)

These drives are no longer manufactured, but required for older WD systems like Live Book Duo and such. Worked 100% replacing a failed drive in my RAID1 Duo.

For computer programming usage.

Love it. No problems. What else can I say?I do recommend this WD hard drive to anyone wanting to upgrade for more storage space.

I bought a WD Green 3TB for future use and left it in it's retail packaging. When I finally needed to use it I found it was dead. I've tried several different Pieces of HDD test and repair software and nothing has been successful. I should have tested in when I first received it and then returned it as DOA. I have a few of these is 2TB and 3TB as redundant internal storage and all have been performing well for years. I guess a bad HDD can slip out from any manufacturer. From now on when I receive a HDD I plan on testing it immediately and if not needed at the time I'll repackage until I do. By the time I discovered the drive was dead both the return window and warranty had expired. I learned my lesson.

This HD is the one that comes inside the WD My Book Live...it finally failed just like i read it in the forums before buying it.Oh well, I used a linux reader program from windows and salvaged the files on the partitions. Reformated it and tried to store data on it. After the first 500GB it started showing slowing down, down to 2MB/sec.Now i reformated it again with 2 partitions to see if it made a difference and the second partition is showing problems.I say ditch it and get something that is not as Green.

Disco molto capiente. Ho avuto diversi di questi dischi in un NAS sempre attivo e praticamente a ruota hanno presentato lo stesso problema. Lo consiglio comunque in quanto è economico, consuma poco, scalda poco, non è assolutamente rumoroso ma la raccomandazione è di averlo in un sistema dove sia usato in mirror o in sistemi raid per evitare che quando si presenterà un problema si perdano i dati.AMAZON stupenda, consegna velocissima, precisa, senza nessun problema

Ho acquistato 4 di questi dischi per il mio raid di storage privato. Ho optato per questi dato il consumo inferiore e la non necessità di avere velocità elevate di scrittura e lettura sebbene devo dire che si comportano molto bene anche sotto quell'aspetto. Praticamente identici ai Blu ma con un consumo più basso di energia.