Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB Hard Disk

Name: Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB
Brand: Western Digital
SKU: WD30EZRX
Rating: 4.5 (295 reviews)

Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB 3.5" SATA 3 IntelliPower 64MB Cache WD30EZRX

★★★★★

(295 reviews)

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2 year limited warranty.
IntelliSeek - Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise, and vibration.
WD Caviar Green hard drives reduce power consumption by up to 40% and offer best-in-class acoustics.
3 TB capacity holds up to 600,000 digital photos, 750,000 MP3 files, and 360 hours of HD video.
Microsoft operating systems prior to Vista, 32-bit operating systems, and Mac systems prior to OSX 10.4 may not support volumes greater than 2TB. To recognize the full capacity of this drive, you may need multiple partitions. Check with the manufacturer to verify your system's compatibility.

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Specifications Overview

Model	WD30EZRX
Release Date	July 2011 * First availability for purchase, it may not correspond to the actual market launch date.
Capacity	3000 GB
Cache	64MB
RPM	5400
Interface	SATA 6 Gb/s
Form Factor	3.5"

	Old Name	Current Name	Branding	Data Speed	Port
USB 2.0	USB 2.0	USB 2.0	Hi-Speed USB	480 Mbit/s	diverse
USB 3.0	USB 3.1 Gen 1	USB 3.2 Gen 1x1	SuperSpeed USB	5 Gbit/s	diverse
USB 3.1	USB 3.1 Gen 2	USB 3.2 Gen 2x1	SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps	10 Gbit/s	diverse
USB 3.2	USB 3.2 Gen 2x2	USB 4.0 Gen 2x2	USB4 20Gbps	20 Gbit/s	only USB-C
USB4	USB 4.0 Gen 3x2	USB4 1.0	USB4 40Gbps	40 Gbit/s	only USB-C
USB4v2	USB 4.0 Gen 4	USB4 2.0	USB4 80Gbps	80-120 Gbit/s	only USB-C

Pros

ReliabilityLow power consumption

Cons

Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB Performance comparison with similar Hard Disk Drives

(Higher is better)

Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB Performance

Sequential read/write speed, Random 4K read/write speed

Western Digital Caviar Green 4TB (91st)		104%
WD Purple 2TB WD20PURX (91st)		104%
Western Digital 1TB WD Red Plus (91st)		104%
Seagate 8TB IronWolf NAS (95th)		103%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB ST3000DM007 (95th)		103%
Western Digital Blue 2TB WD20EZRZ (95th)		103%
Seagate SkyHawk 8TB ST8000VX0022 (98th)		101%
Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB (98th)		101%
Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB (98th)		101%
Seagate 4TB BarraCuda ST4000DM004 (101st)		~
Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB (101st)		100%
WD RE4 1TB WD1003FBYX (103rd)		96%
Samsung Spinpoint F4EG 2TB (103rd)		96%
SAMSUNG Spinpoint 1TB HD103SJ (105th)		95%
WD RE4 500GB (105th)		95%
Seagate Skyhawk 6TB ST6000VX0023 (105th)		95%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB ST2000DL003 (108th)		93%
Western Digital WD RE4 250GB (108th)		93%
Seagate Barracuda 500GB (110th)		92%
Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB WD1002FAEX (111th)		90%
Seagate Barracuda Green 1TB ST1000DL002 (111th)		90%

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Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB Price/Performance Analysis

Sequential read/write speed, Random 4K read/write speed vs Price

Price-to-Performance Analysis:

Excellent value: 38.1% better price-to-performance ratio than average.
1 products offer better price-to-performance in this analysis.
Best alternative: Seagate Barracuda 3TB offers 13.2% better value priced at $116.