Western Digital Wd Caviar Green 3tb

Western Digital's WD 30EZRS certainly looks an attractive storage solution with an enormous 3 TB capacity and a 64 MB cache. The new 3TB internal difficult drive for desktops looks like a skillful selection for those who desire to store a ton of movies, software, games and images. While a large capacity might audio great, can you expect equally impressive performance?

Design
The iii.5-inch internal HDD is like every standard HDD in terms of design. The drive uses a SATA2 interface with a bandwidth of 3Gb/s.

Got a big three TB appetite

Test Rig Specifications
Processor: Intel Core i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40 GHz
Motherboard: GIGABYTE P67A-UD3R
Memory: Corsair Dominator GT 4 GB DDR3 (two ten ii GB)
Hard drive: WD Velociraptor  300 GB
GPU: ASUS GeForce GTX 580 DirectCU II
PSU: Cooler Chief 1000W

SATA interface with iii Gb/s bandwidth

Performance
Kicking off the performance scores, the WD 3 TB difficult drive recorded a bulldoze alphabetize of 93.nine MB/due south. While these are our constructed benchmark scores, nosotros as well tried some file copy tests with assorted and sequential sets of 2 GB and 4 GB of data. In one test where we transferred files from this difficult drive to our Velociraptor, we got read speeds of 96.45 MB/s for a 2 GB assortment file and write speeds of 78.86 MB/south for the aforementioned. The other test was where we created partitions in the hard drive itself and transferred file sets between them. Here we got a read speed of 72.70 MB/s and a really poor write speed of 28.84 MB/southward.

Benchmarks

Verdict
The WD 3 TB Hard Drive is a decent performer overall. A capacity of three TB is pretty practiced for heavy data users who are on the lookout for storing movies and more. However, at a price of Rs. x,700 makes the WD30EZRS very expensive when it comes to price per GB comparing. A typical 2TB desktop drive sells for an approximate Rs. v,000, which means you'd be better off buying two such hard drives if chapters is what you want.

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Western Digital Wd Caviar Green 3tb,

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