Table of Contents:
- Western Digital 3TB Caviar Green Review
- Features
- Brown Box
- System And Performance
- Conclusion
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












