WD Green 1.5 TB Desktop Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, SATA III, 64 MB Cache - WD15EARX

This was the 3rd one of these fine drives I have bought,So far, all 3 are performing well and as advertised.I have them in E sat enclosures for my Macbook Pro andlove the speed and overall ease of operation.

I bought two of these for Windows 7 and Linux and they have been working great. I can't believe how quiet they are. I put them in a new computer where everything is much quieter than my 11-year-old one Even with everything else making little noise, you can't hear them spin up or seek or anything. I see the little LED come on that says they're doing something but that's the only indication.

I bought the Western Digital Caviar Green drive, 1.5 TB, based on the generally good reviews, the reasonable price (about $115), and also because it comes with free software (WD Acronis TrueImage, available as a free download on the WD Support site) so that I could create a bootable backup of my disk drive. The drive works just fine (based on 1 week of use), but the free software refused to install, repeatedly saying that I don't have a WD drive installed on my system. I tried WD support, which did respond, but their suggestion was simply to download and try installing the software again, to no avail. So, I ended up using another product to clone my hard drive onto the WD drive. So far, the WD drive is fast, quiet, and working fine with about 100,000 files on it, and lots of free room for future use.

I've rated this because it is as expected i.e. it did not fail and it is quite.IT was nicely packaged, however the was no cover information about disk speed.

had it a long time, holds a lot, works great. i'm not a benchmarker, but has been as good any hard drive i've ever had except my raptor. was a very good value.

Was able to format and clone my existing drive to it -- no problems. Would reccommend this to everyone needing a hard drive.

I'm not usually this negative, or pessimistic over a review, or a product, but this drive is quite possibly the biggest mistake you could possibly make. At the time, it seemed like a great idea, 64mb cache, 1.5tb, Sata3 interface. But the problem that I decided not to pay attention to, was its intellipower...Granted, it's a nice feature that should save power in theory, but it will never be the 7200rpm that the caviar black is, which pretty much makes the fact that it's a sata 3 connection, pointless. This all being said, some of the numbers are there to make you think it's an amazing buy, but it's not. I say all this, before telling that the one I ordered from amazon came DOA, and the replacement arrived DOA. They're not a quality piece of product in any sense of the word. I've come to realize that the hard, if not pointless way, after trying a third drive from another company, that also arrived DOA. Basically any negative comment you read about this drive, whether it's plagued with bad grammar, or bad spelling, is probably based in more truth then any of the lucky few that received a working drive.

I got 2 of these hard drivesthey installed smothly and worked finequite and fast operationgood pricerecommended