Conclusion:
Despite the potential incompatibilities with older systems, this drive rocks. It’s the most performance we’ve seen out of the Green Drive series to date. The low power means that it will work nicely in devices like NASs and external enclosures that are designed to have a low energy footprint. These drives will also work quite nicely in datacenters looking to relatively cheaply upgrade their storage capabilities. The SATA III card that they bundle could be a bit better, but Western Digital is really just taking away some of the guess work for you as to whether or not you will be able to use the drive. It’s hard to fault them too much for this. You are going to pay a bit of a premium for this drive, but that is the tax we pay to be on the bleeding edge of tech. At the time of writing, the drive can be found for around $260. With Black Friday and Cyber Monday coming up, you may be able to find a better deal. No doubt prices will drop within the coming months.
Overall, this is a great purchase. Whether you’re a data pack rat and need another data drive or are upgrading an existing NAS, you won’t be disappointed. The Western Digital 3TB Green Drive truly is an awesome piece of hardware.
Really an amazing high performance green drive with a capacity of about 3TB, which is in it self an amazing thing to read and share, even more to have one in your PC. Thanks for sharing it…..