Western Digital Caviar Green Power 1TB 7200RPM 16MB S300 SATA Internal Hard drive Kit

I wanted this additional drive for gaming leaving my existing PATA drive for Boot up Duties and System stuff.

Wanting a fast speed, large storage and generaly better performance I went for this SATA H.D.

I was unsure if it would run Ok with my original PATA drive. I was lucky in that my motherboard did have an SATA socket. (you can get adapters if yours does not) After doing a bit of research it appeared that no routing plugs were needed so I just plugged in the power hose connected the SATA cable and booted up. IT worked first time!! Yes I was suprised.

WD provide all the software from thier excellent site. After booting up again the computer recognised the new drive and attributed it with all the right properties. The downloaded program also allows a backup facility for your whole system which I put on my external WD hard drive. (Also V. good and the reason I got this brand.) This took about 6 hours.

In operation the unit has performed very well and there have been no glitches, It is of course early days but I have confidence in this WD stuff.

Finally, I was very pleased with price I got my drive for, a heavy discount made it a bargin.

Hope you found this useful.

Did exactly as it should, so I am told by fussyhubby, and was perfect for the job. What more can you say?

So it's "caviar green" ... Wow, does that make me feel I'm saving the planet :-|

It's sitting in my Drobo as I speak, part of a 4-disk array. It works.

Note that as soon as a Drobo goes over 2 TB in total (as mine did when I put this disk in) you get 2 Drobo icons on your desktop.

Worry not. This is a limitation of the USB interface and nothing to do with the disk.