Western Digital 3TB Caviar Green Review

I decided to compare the older 1TB WD Caviar Green drive to the 3TB model. These represent two different time periods for the Caviar Green drives. Note that I used the HighPoint RocketRAID card to test the 3TB drive due to the lack of a UEFI motherboard in-house. Performance was good with the 3TB drive outperforming the 1TB drive across the board.

Test System

•            Core i7-980X

•            24GB DDR3-1866MHz memory

•            2 128GB Kingston SSDNow V+ HDDs in RAID 0 as boot drive

•            ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB card running Catalyst 10.9 drivers

•            WD Green Caviar 3TB HDD

•            WD 1TB Green Caviar 1TB HDD

•            Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate Edition

Tests

•            ATTO

•            PCMark Vantage HDD Test

•            Sisoft Sandra 2010 Drive test

•            CrystalDiskMark

•            HDTune

•            HDTach