Western Digital Green 3TB 3.5 inch Desktop Hard Drive

Cool and Quiet

WD GreenPower Technology yields lower operating temperatures for increased reliability and low acoustics perfect for ultra-quiet PCs and external drives.

Reduced power consumption

Best-in-class power management technology delivers significant power savings and solid performance.

Features:

Eco-conscious - WD Green drives are innovatively designed and manufactured with lead-free, conflict-free and halogen-free materials to help ensure a sustainable future.

Leading the way to green hard drives - WD led the industry in creating a new category of hard drives that use less power and helps to reduce the world's energy demands one computer user at a time. With over 100 million WD Green drives sold* customers using WD Green drives have saved the planet over 466 million kwh of power – nearly equaling the annual power production of a single coal power plant!
*Data reflects approximate drives sold as of June 2012

NoTouch ramp load technology - The recording head never touches the disk media ensuring significantly less wear to the recording head and media as well as better drive protection in transit.

Halogen free - In addition to being RoHS compliant, all WD Green drives are lead and halogen free, resulting in less pollutants getting into our environment.

Reduced rare earths dependency - WD's next-generation WD Green hard drives are built using less rare earth minerals.

Conflict-free materials - As a leader in hard drive manufacturing, WD proudly guarantees their hard drives are built with 100% conflict-free raw materials.

IntelliSeek - Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise and vibration.

Upgrading your drive is easy - WD Acronis TrueImage, available as a free download on the WD Support site, enables you to copy all your data to a new drive so you don't have to reinstall your operating system to get all the benefits of a new drive.

Note: This is a bare drive and does not include any cables. We also have spare SATA cables for desktops.

The WD advantage - WD put their products through extensive Functional Integrity Testing (F.I.T.) prior to any product launch. On average, each new product goes through 600,000 hours of testing.