Unless your drive has TLER, I strongly recommend against using it. WDC is awash for their blue/black drives because you cannot set it (even with a tool like smartctl).
WDC just released their Se drives. At least with the 4TB model, it close in price to the black (in fact black is more...
Sorry to bring up an old forum, but this was technically never answered:
The 82579V purposefully doesn't install on a 2008R2. In theory it should work perfectly fine, but Intel decided to actually comment out and include separate OS inf path for the V variant. So you if you look very closely...