Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB Hard Drive Review @ eTeknix.com

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Quote: A lot of talk has been about solid state drives lately and

rightly so as they are one of the most beneficial components into a

system that money can buy. By the addition of a SSD, a system can be

boosted but it comes at a cost and sadly doesn't offer much in terms

of price per Gigabyte.

What a lot of users are tending to go for these days is a smaller

size solid state drive to simply run their operating system whilst

their games and storage is moved over to a large mechanical style

drive and with more companies than ever before offering drives with

higher capacities per platter, it's an easy decision to make if

needing a lot of storage.

Casting your mind back to this time last year, the 750GB per platter

boundary was broken and were quickly implemented into drives and sold

by the truck load but ended up being quite costly, used a lot of power

and in turn generated a mass amount of heat. This clearly wasn't a

viable option, though the likes of Seagate and other well-known brands

continued to sell these drives in succession, whilst the likes of

Western Digital sat back to admire what was about to come.

Moving forward ever so slightly and Western Digital brought their 3TB

Caviar Green drive to market which only uses four platters, opposed to

five which means less heat, less power and also brings the price down

for the consumers which is a typical win, win, win situation for

everyone involved and will also give that slight edge to them over the

competition.

Today we're taking a look at that very drive to see if performance is

hindered in any way or whether this drive really can do it all whilst

offering a huge capacity for space at the same time.

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