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  • 3.5- Inch SATA hard drive and SATA 6 Gb/s interface.
  • WD Green hard drives reduce power consumption by up to 40% and offer best-in-class acoustics and operating temperature and 3rd generation SATA interface
  • IntelliPower - A fine-tuned balance of spin speed, transfer rate and caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance.
  • 2 year limited warranty
  • Reduced power consumption
  • Environmentally responsible
  • Cool and quiet

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WD Caviar Green 3 TB SATA hard drives reduce power consumption by up to 40% and offer best-in-class acoustics and operating temperature.

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WD Green Desktop Hard Drives – Cool, quiet operation for efficient eco-conscious computing.

Cool and quiet.
WD GreenPower Technology yields lower operating temperatures for increased reliability and low acoustics perfect for ultra-quiet PCs and external drives.

Reduced power consumption.
Best-in-class power management technology delivers significant power savings and solid performance.

Eco-conscious.
WD Green drives are innovatively designed and manufactured with lead-free, conflict-free and halogen-free materials to help ensure a sustainable future.

Product Features

WD's commitment to sustainability - WD's green initiative goes even further beyond the product level, focusing on recycling and improving the cleanliness of the air, water and land.

Leading the way to green hard drives - WD led the industry in creating a new category of hard drives that use less power and helps to reduce the world's energy demands one computer user at a time. With over 100 million WD Green drives sold* customers using WD Green drives have saved the planet over 466 million kwh of power – nearly equaling the annual power production of a single coal power plant!
*Data reflects approximate drives sold as of June 2012.

Halogen free - In addition to being RoHS compliant, all WD Green drives are lead and halogen free, resulting in less pollutants getting into our environment.

Reduced rare earths dependency - WD's next-generation WD Green hard drives are built using less rare earth minerals.

Conflict-free materials - As a leader in hard drive manufacturing, WD proudly guarantees our hard drives are built with 100% conflict-free raw materials.

IntelliSeek - Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise and vibration.

NoTouch Ramp Load technology - The recording head never touches the disk media ensuring significantly less wear to the recording head and media as well as better drive protection in transit.

Tested for compatibility - We perform tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in our FIT Lab to give our customers confidence that our drives will work in their systems.

The WD advantage - WD puts our products through extensive Functional Integrity Testing (F.I.T.) prior to any product launch. On average, each new product goes through 600,000 hours of testing. WD also has a detailed Knowledge Base with more than 1,000 helpful articles. You can also call toll-free support 7 days per week in the U.S. and Canada. See the WD Support site for full details.

Upgrading your drive is easy - WD Acronis TrueImage, available as a free download on the WD Support site, enables you to copy all your data to a new drive so you don't have to reinstall your operating system to get all the benefits of a new drive.

Compatibility
Works with Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000, Mac and Linux operating systems.

Recommended use - WD Green hard drives are tested and recommended for use in PCs as secondary storage, external enclosures and other applications that require cool and quiet operation.*

*Desktop drives are not recommended for use in RAID environments, please consider using WD Red hard drives for home and small office 1-5 bay NAS systems and WD Enterprise hard drives for rackmount and >5 bay NAS systems.

Ideal for:
  • Adding lots of storage in desktop PCs or external drives
  • Adding extra storage space for photos, videos and music
  • Environmentally-conscious individuals seeking reduced power consumption

Features at a glance

  • 500 GB - 3 TB capacity
  • SATA 6 Gb/s interface
  • Reduced power consumption
  • WD GreenPower Technology

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4.1 out of 5 stars
4.1 out of 5
152 global ratings

Customers say

Customers like the performance, noise, ease of use, and quality of the computer drive. For example, they mention it works well, is quiet, and doesn't get as hot as old hard drives. That said, they appreciate the value, and style. Opinions are mixed on speed.

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60 customers mention52 positive8 negative

Customers like the performance of the hard drive. They say it works well enough to not be noticeable, is very silent, and has good performance. Some say it's a great drive and adequate as a backup drive. Overall, most are satisfied with the reliability and solidity of the product.

"...Since then, the drive has been working great. There isn't much more that can be said for it...." Read more

"...it is reading or writing the drive stays active and performs well enough to not be noticeable...." Read more

"...This solidly-built drive is huge, but still responds very quickly...." Read more

"...Both drives working flawless and no issues transferring massive amounts of data to both drives...." Read more

27 customers mention23 positive4 negative

Customers like the noise level of the computer drive. They mention that it's very quiet, not loud by their standards, and doesn't get as hot as their old hard drives.

"...It was very simple to install, is very quiet, and has been running cool from the start...." Read more

"...Very quiet drive! Liked it so much I purchased another for use as an external drive...." Read more

"...So far.....one day, drive works fine, and is quiet. I cannot speak to long term reliability at this point...." Read more

"This hard drive is quiet and quick. Two of my favorite things for hard drives. I did have trouble installing it though...." Read more

18 customers mention15 positive3 negative

Customers like the quality of the computer drive. They say it's a great drive for storage, can hold a lot of video, and is perfect to increase your storage box. They also say it has high capacity, HD, and that it'll fit all of their music, movies, pictures, and family backups.

"...It can play HD videos and music without skipping a beat or buffering.I do not have any programs installed to this drive...." Read more

"...Great for backup drives. All of the ones I've bought have outlasted a couple of their competitors I've bought by Hitachi and Samsung." Read more

"...It certainly gives you plenty of space. Well worth it. The hard drive is fairly quick to respond. For the price you really can't beat it...." Read more

"This item is good for storage but not for constant read write, meaning don't install windows on this type of a drive, use it only for storage..." Read more

17 customers mention17 positive0 negative

Customers find the computer drive easy to install and use. They mention it's simple to install, with no tools needed. They also say it'll automatically recognize and provision the drive.

"...It was very simple to install, is very quiet, and has been running cool from the start...." Read more

"My Acer Aspire 7721 has 2 SATA bays in the front. Installation was easy -- just put the drive into a cradle and push the drive in...." Read more

"Installed in a new build. Had not even one problem during the installation. Shipping from amazon was pretty much faster than running to the store...." Read more

"...Fitment to the desktop was perfect and installation was a breeze. Unfortunately the new HD did not solve startup problem...." Read more

16 customers mention16 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the value of the hard drive. They say it's a great replacement HD for the price and well worth it. Some customers also mention that these Greens are about the cheapest reliable drive you can get.

"Byte-for-byte these Greens are about the cheapest reliable drive you can get...." Read more

"...It certainly gives you plenty of space. Well worth it. The hard drive is fairly quick to respond. For the price you really can't beat it...." Read more

"...The price was good so nothing lost, just surprised that "retail" apparently is no different than OEM, except possibly the wrapper...." Read more

"...Perhaps the previous reviewer received a mis-labeled drive. Excellent value for the money." Read more

5 customers mention5 positive0 negative

Customers like the style of the computer drive. They mention that it runs quiet and cool, with no lag on data access.

"...PROs:-quiet-relatively cool-low powerCONs:none so far" Read more

"...WD kicks ass. I don't use anything else in my computers." Read more

"...I trust the Western Digital drives: very reliable, durable, cool and quiet; they get better, and greener, every year. Good price and prompt delivery." Read more

"I bought this drive for my NAS box, it runs quiet and cool, no lag on data access, great for NAS box." Read more

4 customers mention4 positive0 negative

Customers are satisfied with the computer drive's efficiency. They mention that it's quiet and has a lower power drain.

"...It's also supposed to be pretty efficient electrically, but I can't say I noticed any difference yet...." Read more

"...It seems quiet, and I like the lower power drain...." Read more

"It may be low power but definitely not fast in real life usage. The 32MB cache makes up a bit for some slowness...." Read more

"Quiet, Efficient, but needs better install instructions..." Read more

23 customers mention14 positive9 negative

Customers are mixed about the speed of the drive. Some mention it's fast enough and boots the computer much faster when used as the primary. They also get solid transfer rates, but it'll still slower than other Black. However, others say that these aren't the speediest drives and they don't use them for system drives. They say the drive is slow to access and move data but is fast to go to sleep.

"...This solidly-built drive is huge, but still responds very quickly...." Read more

"...I still get solid transfer rates, but it is still slower than other Black series drives on the computer (which is to be expected)...." Read more

"...No data errors, speed issues or complaints at this time.Highly recommended!" Read more

"This hard drive is quiet and quick. Two of my favorite things for hard drives. I did have trouble installing it though...." Read more

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bassmadrigal
5.0 out of 5 stars Great drive for storage
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Steve W.
3.0 out of 5 stars Quiet, Efficient, but needs better install instructions
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Adam David
5.0 out of 5 stars Overall and for the price, great drive.
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trekkerkev
5.0 out of 5 stars it works.
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Patrick
5.0 out of 5 stars No problem!
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Luc
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