Western Digital Caviar Green 1 TB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive 3.5 Inch, 32 MB Cache, 7200 RPM SATA II WD10EADS

the drive arrived quicker than anticipated, installed easily, and has been working great! great service.

I've read reviews on this site about how hard drive are improperly packaged by amazon, but I guess I really didn't believe it. I received a power supply and this hard drive together in a single box with minimal bubble padding, which was only on the top. Underneath that, a power supply, underneath that, a hard drive packed only in an esd bag. Did I mention the box was enormous. It was like on Ace Ventura when he was pretending to be the mailman. Needless to say the drive didn't work. Amazon was cool though, and they're sending me another drive and a mailing label for the first one. Too bad they still can't assure me that the next package will be properly wrapped. This is one thing that SHOULD NOT BE FRUSTRATION FREE WRAPPED. EVER.

I bought a pair of these drives for my NAS. The dropped in easily, and the NAS recognized and formatted them with no issues. These are the quietest drives I have ever heard. When I say heard, I have had that experience once, they are dead quiet. The performance seems ok, I suspect my pc or network will be a bottleneck long before these drives.

I read a lot of the reviews for this drive as it was to be used in a Home Theater PC for movie / music content. I'm running Win7 and have had to reformat the drive twice in one week due to errors and also it had lost it's partition too. I've installed a lot of drives over the years but never had this much work to copy over content. As this is a secondary drive I deep formatted it a third time and it's seems to be holding up so far. As other reviewers have said it is very quiet and low heat and maybe third times a charm but for the extra $10 I wish I would have bought the Caviar Black with the longer warranty and lived with the higher noise / heat.

I've concluded that buying Western Digital hard drives is a shot in the dark to get one that works properly. No more WD drives for me again - I don't have time to debug their junky drives. I'm returning this drive and buying a different brand hard drive.

This drive was ordered 11/02/09 and arrived in apparently good condition and was packed well by Amazon, but the drive has been flaky from day one. Using it in a Windows desktop, the drive would sometimes format successfully, sometimes it wouldn't. When it would format, the drive would go offline while doing backups to it necessitating a reboot to "see" the drive again. Other times when copying files to the drive, it would "hang" for 1 or 2 minutes, then mysteriously come online again.

This is the 3rd WD drive I've bought in the last 3 yrs. 2 out of 3 of them were bad - 33% success rate! Testing/debugging a bad drive to ensure it's not some other component in the computer (SATA cables, motherboard, power, etc.) is time consuming - I don't have for that, and WD has permanently lost my hard drive business.