Western Digital Caviar Green 1 TB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive 3.5 Inch, 16 MB Cache, 5400 RPM SATA II

This is my biggest stress reliever because this drive does what technology is supposed to do - JUST WORK! Guys I am almost 60 and I now have 3 of these drives that I use in my Drobo - the best back-up tool I have ever used for my Mac/VMWare Windows desktop and laptop. This works great for my small business. The drives make no noise and my Drobo is always cool to the touch. I don't have to do anything. These drives are simply plug and work. They just automatically back up both my laptop and desktop (unfortunately the Drobo wireless accessory does not work with Macs yet so I have to plug in the firewire cable into my laptop when I want to back it up but that's all I do). I live overseas and despite my trembling fingers on the first drive I installed into the Drobo - these drives push in like a VCR tape and you've got instant back up and oodles of memory. It sure beats the drives I was continuously buying every few months and wondering what to do because I couldn't afford the RAID and other servers. With the Drobo and Time Machine backup is idiot proof - this basically has your info on two drives in case one drive fails. When I had another drive and it failed within days after the warranty expired, I called the manufacturer and the tech guy said - "You need to reformat your drive. So where's your back up?" - I said "this was my bloody back up." No more pain with these affordable and reliable drives and my Drobo. We have already recovered info because of a mistake syncing data that ended up getting overwritten. I thank the guys at the Apple Store in MD for telling me what to buy and Amazon for having them at a reasonable price.

These didn't last very long, several years,I went through 3 of them.The one that I have in there is going bad now.My computor just sent me a message,This is going out now too.

What the Hell!!!!!!!!This is the first hard drive I purchased that didn't come with a cable, installation instructions and screws for mounting. I can't say whether the drive is any good or not yet until I go spend more money and more time getting this crap that should have come with it. It's especially irritating when I paid a little extra to have it shipped early too.A "Heads Up" in the product description would have been appropriate.

This drive was so easy to install it was unbelievable. I only wish they would include the Serial Cable with the disk drive. I had to buy a cable for it online. If you are replacing a drive, it works great. If not, then you have to buy a cable. I found one online for about $6.00.Shannon