This is a review of the 4 TB version of the WD Green Desktop Hard Drive

I was researching HDD to purchase and checking out the 1TB WD Blue Desktop Hard Drive 3.5

Of the two western digital products that have failed, one of which was an external desktop hard drive carried around in a college book bag so it was probably a well earned death, it kept kicking just long enough to let me get all my data off

I realized that I don't - and that the added bonus of WD Green technology paid with the lower platter spin of 5600rpm makes for a great situation - I have the drive sitting in an external reader inches from my keyboard, and I can't feel the drive working (vs faster, hotter drives I've used in the reader, which rattle my wooden desktop with all their motion)

Deceptive product, they hide that it is a desktop hard drive NOT a laptop hard drive and then charged me for return shipping.

Great price on a 1T hard drive.

Had it installed a week ago & what a difference....had a 1.6 GB hard drive that crashed & now with the new 1T hard drive

This is my 3rd 4T drive--all excellent and reliable.

This drive suffers from horrible I/O errors if you ever try to do any kind of constant writing job, such as extraction of an archive file or configuring a virtual machine on the drive, or other program installation

Raid 1 rebuilt the array and no i/o issues.

I can't even restart some of the virtual machines because as soon as they try to load from this drive, it reports an I/O error and ceases operations for that virtual machine