WD Green 1.5 TB Desktop Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, SATA III, 64 MB Cache - WD15EARX

Western Digital 1.5TB 3.5 inch Caviar Green SATA Desktop Hard Drive From the Manufacturer --------------------- WD Green Desktop Hard Drives – Cool, quiet operation for efficient eco-conscious computing. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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. Product Features ---------------- WD's commitment to sustainability - WD's green initiative goes even further beyond the product level, focusing on recycling and improving the cleanliness of the air, water and land. 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 ! *Data reflects approximate drives sold as of June 2012. 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 our hard drives are built with 100% conflict-free raw materials. IntelliSeek - Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise and vibration. NoTouch Ramp Load technology - The head never touches the disk media ensuring significantly less wear to the head and media as well as better drive protection in transit. Tested for compatibility - We perform tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in our FIT Lab to give our customers confidence that our drives will work in their systems. The WD advantage - WD puts our 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. WD also has a detailed Knowledge Base with more than 1,000 helpful articles. You can also call toll-free support 7 days per week in the U.S. and Canada. See the WD Support site for full details. 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. WD-certified packaging - All WD drives purchased from .com are shipped in WD-certified hard drive packaging. It is designed and fully tested to provide WD products with the highest of safety while in transit. With WD-certified packaging, you can rest assured that your WD hard drive will arrive safely, fully protected, in a non-descript, easy-open package. Compatibility Works with Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000, Mac and Linux operating systems. Recommended use - WD Green hard drives are tested and recommended for use in PCs as secondary storage, external enclosures and other applications that require cool and quiet operation.* *Desktop drives are not recommended for use in RAID environments, please consider using WD Red hard drives for home and small office 1-5 bay NAS systems and WD Enterprise hard drives for rack and >5 bay NAS systems. Ideal for: ---------- * Adding lots of storage in desktop PCs or external drives * Adding extra storage space for photos, videos and music * Environmentally-conscious individuals seeking reduced power consumption Features at a glance * 500 GB - 3 TB capacity * SATA 6 Gb/s interface * Reduced power consumption * WD GreenPower Technology You might also consider: ------------------------

• About this item.
• Capacity 1.5 TB.
• Interface SATA 6 Gb/s.
• Idle Mode 24 dBA (average).
• Seek Mode 0 29 dBA (average).
• Read/Write 1.75 A.
• Ships in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging.