Western Digital Announces Caviar Green 2.5 TB and 3 TB SATA Hard Drive

WD today announced that the company is shipping the world’s largest capacity SATA hard drive. As the latest addition to its WD Caviar Green family of SATA hard drives, the new hard drives deliver up to a massive 3 terabytes (TB) of storage capacity on a single drive. WD is leading the industry in ca…

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Western Digital Announces Caviar Green 2.5 TB and 3 TB SATA Hard Drive

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Mussels

Moderprator

if only they werent WD, i’d be on these like herpes on a cheap hooker

Disparia

Because they’re WD I’ll be buying these up!

freaksavior

To infinity … and beyond!

Damn just bought 2tb’s

wolf

Performance Enthusiast

i hope these drop in prices quicker than 2tb drives took, theyre absolutely dirt cheap atm

suraswami

Good and Bad.

Good – Consolidate and Store everything in one location

Bad – if it dies you loose whole lot more :laugh:

RejZoR

Mussels

if only they werent WD, i’d be on these like herpes on a cheap hooker

One of the better quotes 😀 Though why don’t you like WD ? Their drives are good, especially if you look at the Caviar Black series.

bear jesus

Mussels

if only they werent WD, i’d be on these like herpes on a cheap hooker

What is wrong with WD drives? i don’t own any and have not for a good 6 or 8 years.

I would love a pair of the 3tb ones to use for a pair of full backups of all my data.

mdm-adph

Mussels

if only they werent WD, i’d be on these like herpes on a cheap hooker

Yeah, what’s wrong with WD? What’s your favorite brand? I thought that Seagate was still the current pariah.

Mussels

Moderprator

i’ve had many WD blacks die on me for no reason. they just fried overnight, in the same enclosures that seagates and samsungs still run fine in.

WD blacks are barely faster than my 5,400RPM samsung 2TB’s – if that.

WD cost more, use more power, make more heat, and arent any faster than samsung – so i see no reason to go them.

oh and as for their green drives which negate some of those problems…. SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOW at sequential writes. from personal experience, never again.

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Mindweaver

Moderato®™

They look good! I really don’t care for the green edition.. but i’ll take them in black! :toast:

#11

freaksavior

To infinity … and beyond!

Mussels

i’ve had many WD blacks die on me for no reason. they just fried overnight, in the same enclosures that seagates and samsungs still run fine in.

I can agree with this. I have had more wd drives die on me. I currently have 7 seagates in my server.

WD blacks are barely faster than my 5,400RPM samsung 2TB’s – if that.

WD cost more, use more power, make more heat, and arent any faster than samsung – so i see no reason to go them.

oh and as for their green drives which negate some of those problems…. SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOW at sequential writes. from personal experience, never again.

Dads computer – seagate 500gb

Mac – seagate 320gb

moms dell – seagate 320

Brothers Acer – 320 seagate

HTPC – 500gb, 750gb seagate

Dads htpc – hitache

Server 4 x 2tb, 2 x 1.5tb, 1 x 40gb

nuff said

#12

beautyless

We are still need a lot of capacity storages. So this is the answer. But I will looking for another faster Black edition of WD harddisk to be system drive.

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Mussels

Moderprator

beautyless

We are still need a lot of capacity storages. So this is the answer. But I will looking for another faster Black edition of WD harddisk to be system drive.

i hope you have a computer with EFI instead of a BIOS, cause otherwise you wont be able to use one of these as a system drive.

#14

FordGT90Concept

“I go fast!1!11!1!”

Yay, I hope this pushes Seagate to make their >2 TB drives available to the public.

#15

Unregistered

wew, its till useless, if you don’t have motherboard with efi, why bios can’t die already

#16

Cheeseball

Not a Potato

I’d probably stick with the 2TB Blacks they’ve got. 😀

#17

AsRock

TPU addict

Mussels

if only they werent WD, i’d be on these like herpes on a cheap hooker

Sounds like ya had issue’s with them.. Never had one fail on me yet around 10 years. More More accurate since the 850MB HDDS.

Jizzler

Because they’re WD I’ll be buying these up!

:toast:

#18

Maban

I can’t see how $230 is a justifiable price. You can get a 3TB Barracuda XT from an external drive for $205. Granted it will void the warranty taking it out but still a much better deal.

#19

RejZoR

Well i can say the same for Samsung, Mussels. Its laying on my desk collecting dust. Sure it was reasonably cheap and performed well, but it started causing problems after 1,5 year.

I have great trust in Samsung brand. I have their DVD burner, their LCD monitor, their smartphone and i had their HDD. Out of which 1 DVD burner died in less than 1 year and one HDD in 1,5 year.

LCD monitor is like 3 years old and still working like new (knocking on hard wood) and the phone is new but i had another Samsung before and it performed well and still is (my mom is using it now).

I can conclude that samsung makes quality A/V appliances but fails at PC components quality.

They have to work a bit on that. After all, WD is on the scene almost since the first HDD’s arrived while Samsung is rather new here (for quite some time but compared to WD, not for so long).

And i use CrystalDiskInfo on all my PC’s to get SMART info before something goes wrong this time.

#20

TheLaughingMan

The failure rate for HDD’s are the same for every brand….about 6% within the first 6 months.

I currently use a Sammy F3 as my system drive and a WD 2TB as storage. Never had any issue with either companies drives. I have had a lot of trouble with Seagate, but we all gotta hate one of them.

This is earlier than I predicted in previous post. I expected them to be available before Christmas, but this is about 4 weeks earlier than I would have thought.

****See Freaksavior, I told you to wait a few weeks for the 3 TB’s to be released.

#21

Lipton

Maban

I can’t see how $230 is a justifiable price. You can get a 3TB Barracuda XT from an external drive for $205. Granted it will void the warranty taking it out but still a much better deal.

That depends, these are 4 platter disks while the Seagates are 5 platter disks, meaning these should run cooler and quieter. But who knows if WD actually pulled that off. ^^ Also, the 3 TB Seagate XT had an MSRP of $249 when it launched.

Edit: found a review here:

www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=1021

#22

btarunr

Editor & Senior Moderator

suraswami

Good and Bad.

The same was said about 2 GB drives when the average PC had 500 MB hard drives.

Good – Consolidate and Store everything in one location

Bad – if it dies you loose whole lot more :laugh:

#23

bear jesus

btarunr