Western Digital Caviar 3TB SATA 6 GB/s 64MB Cache 3.5 inch OEM Internal Hard Drive Green

Title : Western Digital Caviar 3TB SATA 6 GB/s 64MB Cache 3.5 inch OEM Internal Hard Drive Green
ASIN : B004RORMF6
Description : Storage
Features :

• Height:2.6 cm
• Buffer Size:64 MB
• Width:10.2 cm
• Depth:14.7 cm
• Weight:0.73 kg

List Price : £99.70
Price : £99.70

category: Products
brand: Western Digital OEM
Item Page Detail URL : link
Rating : 4.2
Review : Loads of storage, but it is a tad slow and not always 32-bit OS or boot drive friendly
This is a 'new' advanced format hard drive that is designed [optimised] for 64-bit Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Mac OS X [Leopard 10.5, Snow Leopard 10.6, but Boot Camp not supported]. Most Western Digital Advanced Format Drives can be used with XP if you put a hard drive jumper across pins 7/8 before formatting and partitioning [if you fail to do that or have multiple partitions under XP, you will have to use WDs 'Align utility' as well]. You also might occasionally get problems installing these 3 Gb/s SATA hard drives on 1.5 Gb/s SATA motherboards [shorting pin 5/6 rectifies this].

However generally, if XP, Vista or Windows 7 is installed as the 32-bit version on your PC, it will not be able to format or recognise the full capacity of a 3Tb hard drive, either as an internal drive or as an external USB2 one. This is due to the 2.19 Tb limit with 32-bit operating systems. However owing to a hardware fix, this 3Tb drive can be used as a secondary drive with 32-bit Vista &...