(Old Model) WD Green 1TB Desktop Hard Drive: 3.5-inch, SATA 6 Gb/s, IntelliPower, 64MB Cache WD10EZRX

I was looking for a quiet HDD to install as a data drive on the new desktop system I was building. My primary drive was 256 GB SSD hard. The SSD is extremely fast. I have Windows 7 and all of my software loaded on the SSD for quick launch (Windows startup ~15 seconds, Word starts in about 2 seconds). They are also silent which I really like too. The SSDs are very expensive for mass storage (~$1 per GB). I needed a second drive for storage (music, videos, pics, etc.) I was really trying to go for a quiet system. Allot of research later, I went with the WD Green....I can not hear it read/writing unless I literally put my ear up to the machine. I have notice zero lag or performance issues with the drive. At first I was apprehensive about using a driving that spun so slowly, but it works perfectly for what I need. I am not sure how well it would do as a primary drive. Amazons frustration free package is a great. It arrived in a simple yet sturdy and durable. It was well protected. I could open the box by hand. The drive was suspended in a cardboard mount inside of a static bag

Purchased this hard drive to replace my failing original hard drive in my 6 year old computer. This computer is used exclusively for work and has over 200 gigs of photos related to my job. My old hard drive was 750gbs so I was looking to upgrade a bit, but also keep my costs down. I read reviews which were mostly positive for this hard drive and figured it would suit my needs the best. I am not disappointed! This is my first time replacing a failing hard drive, so I wasn't sure what to expect. I grabbed this drive and a cable from Amazon, plugged it all into my mother board along side the existing original hard drive and booted the computer up. My computer was able to instantly see the hard drive and after a quick format I was able to use it for storage. I downloaded a free program and made an image of my existing hard drive, which I then restored to the new hard drive. Talk about easy! I now have my 1TB hard drive installed in my computer and it is operating as if I'm still on the old drive...except without all the freezing and worry of data loss! If your looking for a decent sized hard drive to replace an older or failing drive and your not looking for a power house drive, I think this is the drive for you! There are certainly better drives out there, especially for people whom are into gaming and other heavy usage tasks, but those of us that don't use their computer much or don't use resource heavy programs, can definitely win with this drive. I have recommended this drive to a couple other people in my circle that are looking to replace their drives and will certainly purchase again should the need arise.

Ye gods, a terabyte hard drive (a cheap one!) for home use. I remember having to set jumpers on SCSI and ATA drives to get them to talk to the controller. Shoot, I remember having a hole punch to make a single-sided 5.25 floppy into a double-side. I think that all of the fun and excitement of having to have 80-wire ribbon cable and mini-DINs is lost to the current generation. There was absolutely no drama at all in sliding this drive into the case, attaching power and data cables, and having it just work. It runs cool, quiet and happy. It is replacing an old Maxtor drive that could be heard spinning up from two rooms away. That poor old soldier is meeting the hydraulic press later this afternoon. If I get as many years out of this new drive, those little SATA cables will be positively archaic.

So far so good. I installed this bad boy a few months ago and it has been going strong. It's much faster than my old hard drive, and I foresee no major problems. I *did* have a strange problem when I first installed it, but I have no idea if it had anything to do with the hard drive or not. Long story short, but OS (which is on a separate SSD) would not boot, and I eventually had to reinstall the OS. Again, I'm fairly certain it had nothing to do with the new HD, and more likely it was my own fault, but I thought I'd mention it in case anyone else had a similar issue. Recommended HD!

Ok Ill be honest, I bought these drives because I am a broke college student majoring in computer science and I wanted large capacity drives for my dropbox applications that are hosted from home. Going into this, I wanted something that was power efficient (Read on and see why) because I pay for the power that my server rack uses. That being said, I pretty much broke every single rule when it comes these drives. For starters I threw 6 of them in a raid 5 config on a Dell Poweredge 2950 gen 3 (which eats up a lot of power, well more than i would like). I did not run the WDIDLE utility and I have reformatted these drives countless times. I have ran multiple VM's, streamed countless movies and uploaded and downloaded terabytes of files from them. Having them for a year, I have run into ZERO issues with these drives. I must say that the power savings are night in day coming from the stock 10k rpm drives the server came with, yes the performance decreased going to the greens but i was looking for more of an archive solution.

Great replacement for a failing Tivo drive. Did have to do some homework to find which adapter works with an S2. This is my first green label drive and I'm amazed in the difference in heat output from a blue label drive. The blue label pata 500GB I had in the unit before lasted well over 5 years and that speaks for itself as I never power off the Tivo the drive is constantly "buffering" live TV 24/7 anyway. I expect with the green label running so much cooler I should expect the same or more life out of this drive. If you decide to put this drive into any DVR type system you would be well advised to grab the wdidle utility (at least that's what I recall it being called) to make sure the intelligent park feature is disabled. I think they stopped shipping enabled, but it only takes one minute to run and set disable just in case. Waited to write the review until the drive had been in service for a few months.

Great hardrive and reliable. I needed another hardrive to replace my almost failing hardrive from the manufacturer's hardrive that came with my PC. The box simply came with the hardrive and nothing else, which is the best because I don't need any other software or screws to install. 1TB is a lot of diskspace for me which is nice to have. It is very affordable as before internal hardrives can be very expensive. The disk is working very well right now and I hope this hardrive will last for a good amount of time. I think it will definitely last longer than my previous hardrive. Great product! And I'm very satisfied with it.

I've always had very good luck with Western Digital hard drives and Amazon. This time Amazon let me down. Received HD shipped via Fedex-USPS a day later than was promised. Installed hard drive into my computer and formatted it. Everything was fine and working as expected. Then I attempted to copy some files on the hard drive and the computer locked up. I tried rebooting and the computer locked up when Windows started. I then removed the new hard drive from the system and everything was normal again. Just out of curiosity, I hibernated the computer when it was normal, connected the new hard drive and started the computer. The computer booted up normally, but did not show the drive in the computer directory. It did show it in disk management, but would not respond when accessed. I know the hard drive is very good, as I have the same model in my computer, and have used it almost continuously for 8 months, with no problems. I believe the problem is the way it was shipped. A hard drive is probably one of the most precise mechanical inventions ever created. The way it was said to be shipped was Amazon's "Ships in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging". This is the reason I ordered it from Amazon, in the first place. Instead I received it in the original vendor OEM box which fit in my standard rural mail box, with plenty of room to spare. Very disappointing. I returned the hard drive and will see what happens. Update.....Received refund as promised. Thank you Amazon for your exceptional return policies.

Die Festplatte wurde verwendet, um den älteren PC eines Bekannten aufzurüsten. Dabei wurden zwei kleinere Platten durch diese eine ersetzt. (Ich selber habe zwei dieser Platten in der 2 TB Ausführung in meinem eigenen Rechner.) Das Ergebnis kann sich sehen lassen! Der Rechner startet ein ca. 10 Sekunden schneller (weil diese Festplatte etwas schneller ist als die alten). Gleichzeitig ersetzt diese stromsparende Platte jetzt sogar zwei alte Platten. Dadurch wird deutlich Strom gespart und das Netzteil entlastet. Außerdem gibt diese Platte deutlich weniger Wärme ab, also bleibt der Rechner kühler, und der Gehäuselüfter muss weniger arbeiten. Dadurch bleibt der Rechner leiser. Laut Crystal Disk Info läuft die neue Platte 7 - 8 Grad kühler als die alten Platten... Der Einbau verlief problemlos. Die Daten wurden mittels der - auf der Western Digital herunterladbaren - Acronis Software (kostenlose WD Edition) übertragen. Aus meiner Sicht: Volle Punktzahl!

No es el más rápido del mercado que digamos, pero por un precio ciertamente asequible, es una opción estupenda. Con una conexión SATA medianamente moderna se le saca el máximo partido que puede ofrecer, y además no tiende a calentarse con una refrigeración ''normalita'' en el PC. Con la caja-embalaje tampoco se han machacado, pero me llamó la atención el contenedor tan seguro en el que venía, montado simplemente con cartón. Eso es optimización de recursos.

Attelé à un démodulateur ASTON XENA HD TWIN, enregistre simultanément 2 programmes différents sans problème. De plus, dans un boîtier STOREVA silver drive USB tout alu, ne chauffe pas du tout et ne fait aucun bruit (pas de ventilateur). Un vrai bonheur. C'est mon deuxième disque WD green (l'autre fait les sauvegardes Time Machine de mon iMac) et je ne voudrais pas d'autre marque. Surtout pas Seagate).

Pacco arrivato 3 gg prima del previsto, ottimo!!! Per chi si è lamentato dell'imballaggio, beh non arriva come se lo spedisse direttamente la Wd quindi con pacchi super imballati e anti urto, però e' arrivato comunque avvolto in materiale anti urto, ed è perfettamente funzionante. Per chi si è lamentato che è mancante di viti e Cavo Sata, questa è la versione BULK!!! Solo disco, e nessun rivenditore darai mai assieme ad un HD il cavo Sata.... Questo disco deve essere utilizzato per il back up dei dati e per utilizzi con accessi sporadici ed non intensi. E' molto silenzioso, temperatura basse e consuma pochissimo. Lo si può utilizzare per back up del Sistema operativo, back up foto, back up giochi, back up Itunes ecc... Per un utilizzo più intenso ed estremo come per esempio utilizzo di giochi, scaricare su HD ecc consiglio un WD Black concepito per questo utilizzo. Io ho configurato il mio pc cosi: Disco primario SSD Samsung da 500GB per Windows e applicativi, per i giochi steam e non steam un Cavier Black da 1 TB, per fare il back up di tutto (giochi+foto+itunes+film+backup dei giochi) QUESTO meraviglioso disco. Stra soddisfatto!!!! E' ottimo per utilizzarlo anche come HD esterno, si compra un Box Sata e durerà molto nel tempo. Spero le info date siano utili ad altre persone interessate.

Still going after all these years, classic WD quality. Still running daily and are still not noisy and run cool. They just work, not the fastest data transfer 80mbs most times but its to be expected. I have used with windows/linus/other OSs and its never missed a beat when it comes to compatibility, no drivers needed either.