(Old Model) WD Green 4TB Desktop Hard Drive: 3.5-inch, SATA 6 Gb/s, IntelliPower, 64MB Cache WD40EZRX

I purchased two of these drives in September 2011, and I could not be happier with them. I have great luck overall with Western Digital disks, and these drives are no exception. One was purchased here on Amazon, and another was purchased at a local electronics shop. Both have not given me any problems. The rotational speed of the drive is, for some, a limiting factor in its deployment settings. I have both disks installed in an old 2003-era Power Mac G4 tower, connected to two Sonnet TSATA PCI cards, and when formatted correctly, work very well and recognize their full capacity in my setup. Due to the space limitations of the older Apple Partition Map (APM) formatting scheme, they must be configured as GPT (GUID Partition Table) and therefore cannot be used to boot the computer, even though the Sonnet SATA cards do support booting to connected drives. I use smaller SATA disks (2TB and under) for booting purposes since they can be properly formatted using APM. Running in OS X 10.5.8, the drives recognize all 2.7TB of formatted capacity, and do a very admirable job of acting as my data repository. If I recall correctly, RAID is not recommended with this model 'Green' drive due to the power saving logic, so I use a program to copy, every 6 hours, from the primary storage disk, to the other. This has the added benefit of avoiding filesystem corruption if one drive starts to go south. Luckily, that is not the case. Performance for copying over 1TB of data from the old SATA disk to the WD 3TB green drive seemed pretty close to the 1.5Gbps interface speed of the SATA card, which was simply amazing on this old G4 tower. I don't regularly access the machine, and most file transfer is done over my home network, so the disks aren't used as primary storage. The speed, though, is not noticeably slower than the other 7200RPM SATA disks (one Seagate 1TB and one Hitachi 2TB) I have installed in the machine. This phenomenon is likely due to the SATA 1.5Gbps interface of the card being the primary bottleneck, not the rotational speed of any of the disks involved. I have not run any quantitative speed testing on any of the disks as I have not noticed any issues with performance in my current setup. I am very happy with these disks and their compatibility with my old, creaking setup. I feel good knowing that if the G4 tower ever goes south, I can readily move them into a Mac Pro tower with ease. I was skeptical that investing in a SATA setup for my old machine would be worth the cost. I now believe that for its purpose as a local network storage device, and not as a daily use machine, these drives are probably among the best for this kind of setup regardless of the platform you'll be deploying on (assuming your setup with work with 3TB disks). One note is that (as of early November 2011) the prices of the 3TB Green drives have more than doubled since I purchased them, likely due to flooding in Thailand where most hard disks are produced these days. It may seem vulgar or insensitive to discuss storage pricing when so many peoples' lives are devastated by this horrible disaster, but this is a product review, so I mention it with as much context as I can. I could not personally justify a purchase at the current price level, but if you need 3TB of storage in one disk mechanism, I believe you can acquire this drive with confidence assuming the cost does not prevent you from doing so.

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.

Sendung hat etwas länger gedauert als sonst (5 Tage), es war aber auch Ostern, somit verständlich. Die vorhergesagte Lieferzeit wurde aber eingehalten. Zur HDD: Dies ist meine 3. WD Green und bei jeder neuen HDD gibt es mehr Platz (habe nun 1.5 , 3 & 5 TB) und es wird jedesmal leiser. Die 5TB hört man wirklich fast nicht mehr. Das hängt auch damit zusammen, dass die U/min reduziert werden. Die meisten tagtäglichen Anwendungen brauchen keine 7200U/min. Fazit: Für jemanden, der keine extremen Anwendungen hat (z.B. Videoschnitt könnte ich mir vorstellen), super Platte. Leise, geringer Stromverbrauch, preiswert.

Buen producto a muy buen precio. Éste se usó de reemplazo para uno de la misma marca y serie Green de 3Tb. que duró funcionando sin parar durante casi 13 años. Espero dure también muchos años.

Siguiendo su linea Western Digital nos trae este disco HDD de gran capacidad a un precio inmejorable. -Muy rápido (SATA III) y silencioso (5400 rpm... recomiendo activar opciones de ahorro para que se apague o reduzca su actividad cuando no se usa) --IMPORTANTE-- Al formatear discos duros de esta capacidad poner siempre GPT frente a MBR ya que es el nuevo estándar para este tipo de discos y a la hora de sacar todos los Gigas posibles esta es la forma de hacerlo. Para ello enchufarlo a ser posible con SATA III siempre que se pueda es RAPIDÍSIMO, ir a Panel de Control/Herramientas Administrativas/Administración de Equipos/Administración de Discos, una vez aquí buscar el nuevo disco aparecerá sin formato, click derecho formatear, seleccionar las opciones aquí seleccionar GPT y listo, asegurarse de marcar la partición como activa para que el disco nos aparezca en el explorador de Windows (botón derecho sobre el disco en el administrador y buscar esta opción) Al principio no sabía por qué no me aparecía en el explorador fue por que al formatearlo le puse una letra que no era la siguiente a los discos duros que ya tenía (le puse letra L para designarlo) se ve que por esa razón no aparecía cambié la letra a la siguiente disponible (que en mi caso era E) y todo solucionado. Si vas a utilizar el disco para un sistema operativo nuevo recomiendo el Formato Normal no vaya a ser que haya un sector malo y nos fastidie en un futuro aunque esto sería rarísimo; si va a ser para archivos y almacenamiento ya que el disco es nuevo, un formato rápido bastará. Yo siempre utilizo el normal por si acaso, el rápido borra el normal borra y escanea, eso depende de cada uno. Formateado se te queda en 2.72TB no está nada mal. Gran disco duro cumple con creces. Lo recomiendo 100% El envío de AMAZON inmejorable como siempre. Recordad que viene solamente el HDD es un OEM (sin instrucciones y sin nada) Es decir el cable SATA no está incluido. Un cordial saludo.

I have several of these drives, they are awesome, fast and power efficient and they work well in yachts! They are designed for handling huge amounts of data but not for intensive heavy file I/O operations, therefore, brilliant as a second drive in your PC for your music or film library. For intense spooling, virtual memory, thousands of successive read/writes etc (ie your drive C in Windows), you should be buying the Western Digital BLACK. As with ALL 4TB drives, if you want to boot your PC from it and you want it to be 4TB (and not 2 x 2TB drives), you will need to be an IT guru to achieve this and have Win 64/64 bit motherboard/UEFI bios etc. For some reason, Amazon as a supplier cannot package and ship 'bare chassis equipment' (ie something that does not come in a manufacturers box), I never received mine and although I cannot fault Amazons after sales, we both wasted a huge amount of time and money trying to resolve the issue and in the end I got my money back.

Ich bringe schon seit Jahren meine Sammlung von Fernsehaufnahmen auf WD Green Platten mit immer höherer Kapazität unter. Darunter waren unter anderem WD10EADS, WD20EARS, WD20EARX, WD30EURS, WD40EZRX und jetzt die erste WD60EZRX. Bei Videos kommt es mir auf niedrige Temperaturen und Laufgeräusche an, nicht so sehr auf die Geschwindigkeit, die bei den WD Green trotzdem nicht schlecht ist. In der Beziehung hat mich keines der Modelle enttäuscht. Die WD60EZRX ist so leise wie meine WD40EZRX und WD30EURS und leiser als ihre Vorgänger. Alle Platten laufen bei mir im Towergehäuse ohne zusätzliche Kühlung und werden selbst bei Dauerstreß nicht heißer als 40 °C. Die WD60EZRX reiht sich nahtlos in die Serie ein. Kühl, sehr leise, zuverlässig, schnell bei großen Dateien. Wer regelmäßig viele kleine Dateien einlesen oder schreiben muß, sollte zu einer anderen Serie von WD greifen, weil die Platte nur mit ca. 5400 Umdrehungen läuft. Das sorgt zwar für weniger Krach, aber auch für weniger Performance. Als Datengrab für meinen HTPC ist diese Platte perfekt.