Very silent Drive, never crashed
345928
Have used this drive for a while and have not had any issue!! Very stable operation and good performance...
3583285
About a month in and it hasn't died on me yet, so I'm happy. WD Green drives, due to the power-saving features, shouldn't be used in always-on configurations. If that sounds backwards, it's probably because it is. Anyway, I use it in my external storage so it's only ever on for a couple hours when I forget to unplug or when copying a lot of data to/from the drive.
2249321
I've had the 1 TB version for almost 5 months, and it's been great.  I use it on both my iMac (via the Firewire 800 interface and an hfs+ partition) and an old Windows XP laptop (via the USB2 interface and an NTFS partition).  The bus-powered feature works via either interface.

I've never had a problem with it, and it's very quiet.
363625
Fast and Problem free.
Quiet and very fast compared to standard disk drive.
Have been running for several weeks now.
4761014
Good drive for the price.  I've always had good luck with WD drives.  I now have two of these in my home file server, where I care more about reliability than speed.

As mentioned in other reviews, something you should definitely read up on is the "idle3" or "auto-park" timer, especially if you use Linux.  I was able to successfully set the timer to 5 minutes using the idle3ctl utility from the "idle3-tools" package.
4313300
no problems with drive, no bad sectors, works perfectly as portable data bank
3110828
The Iomega external hard drive started up fine and has worked reliably so far.  Operates very quietly.  I like it.
3131482
Excellent amount of space. Did not have any trouble connecting 8 drives altogether. Even with 4 fans altogether, the machine is still very quiet.
407675
I read the other reviews before buying, and I got one of the quiet ones.  Just remember to reformat it to NTFS before trying to copy things over, especially large files.
4466347
I was surprised that this drive was more quiet than the Asus DRW-24B1ST, and cheaper to boot. This will be my standard optical drive for all customer builds until I find a better-quality drive for less.
1657589
Quick, silent, low energy and heat.  Only issue I have with it is that it came completely unformatted/partioned and I've still got some issues with booting from it as a stand alone drive.  A setup disk would have been handy.
3926363
High quality hard drive. It has a really fa as the data transfer and it's completely silent!
195447
I can only say good things about a quiet hard drive that has not given me any trouble in the 4 years I've been using it.
1380261
Drive is fast and quiet.  I use it as a storage drive, since I boot from a 256GB SSD, and load games from it pretty often.  Has worked flawlessly since I installed it.
3717232
Excellent hard drive, fast and quiet.  I got one of these for my desktop computer and liked it so much I got another one to put into my server.  Both drives were easy to set up, one on Windows 10 and the other on Ubuntu Server (Linux).  The only thing to note is that these are truly bare drives.  They need to be partitioned and formatted to be used.  As long as that doesn't make you nervous I highly recommend them.  They have a far better warranty than the desktop version and are rated for years of 24/7 operation.
2350735
Easy copy process using included tool, I had my computer running on this drive in under a half hour from opening the box. I did have to do some configuration in the BIOS, that'll depend on your computer. It's fast and silent, and well worth the investment.
2172451
Easy install and it's running pretty quiet. No software comes with it, just the drive itself. As long as you know it's just the drive that you are purchasing-it's a GREAT deal!