Let me share my experience with WD, i had 2 Black 320GB, 1 500 GB, the trio was very durable but noisy, lasted me for 5 year i eventually sold them off while there was no single bad sectors or SMART error.
The nightmare started afteri bought WD Green 1 TB, Black 2TB and AV-GP 3TB, i have 5 of them all went RMA just over 12 months of usage, all have bad sectors.
the Latest one is AV-GP 3TB, just rma-ed a few weeks ago.
Now using Toshiba 3TB RAID0    

WD Black 1TB user here, use it for BT for 5 years non stop. still running strong.

1. If mobo support AHCI, UEFI is optional
2. OS is Vista, or newer
3. 64bit OS, optional, but 64bit + EFI is require for support booting from GPT.
IF mobo too old, like from 2008 or older, you may have trouble using the 3TB drive, you can always email the mobo maker, before buying the 3TB hard disk.

for reference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/218619en
http://www.pcworld.com/article/235088/ever...ard_drives.html

As long as you don't use it for boot drive (install Windows, Linux, etc.), it's fine to use 3TB as a whole volume/partitions on any systems (legacy or new).
If you insist on use it for boot drive then you need to do some reading on 1024kbps posted links.

Yeah, Originally was called EFI but no ppl using this name anymore , newer version now is called UEFI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Exten...mware_Interface