Customer Ratings & Reviews

In my ideal world, I would walk into the store and pick up a 4TB WD RED hard drive for my Drobo. This is not ideal and I had a bad drive so placing an order online wasn't going to happen. I needed a drive and I needed it fast. The 1TB WD was the best drive Best Buy had in store so I went for it. I'm happy that my Drobo excepted the drive and it's been working flawlessly for a few weeks now. I'm happy with the speed I've been getting from my Drobo using these drives. I really don't have anything bad to say other than I wish I would have had the opportunity to pick up a bigger drive the same day.

I am very happy with my WD HDD purchase. Easy install and I downloaded a clean install of windows 10 without any junk that came with computer. Never had my computer run faster and quick response for all files and apps. Start up 23 seconds from HP logo. Thanks Western Digital!

Perfect for storage device no noise operates 100% I have been buying these for several years never had a failure. I would recommend it

Instead of having my 21" Imac upgraded at the Apple store I purchased the Mainstream 1TB Internal Serial ATA Hard Drive at best buy and did it myself. Well to be exact I let my son do the work as it has been his passion for many years. Not only did it save me around $175, but I upgraded from 500 gig to 1TB so it was a double win.

It's a harddrive, not much can go wrong that didn't go right here. Blue version yes yes. 1 TB of data can go on here (a little bit less than 1tb technically but who's gonna beat me up??

I needed this to fill a drive bay slot in my Drobo USB storage device. It "fit the bill" without flaw. It's a smaller Drobo than the others I own and the 1TB capacity was exactly what I required.

Just what i needed for my computer. It was a breeze to put in to complete my project.

Reasonable price compare to Amazon or Newegg. Mainly will be used for storage on a Ryzen 5 1600 CPU.

This past month I bought 3 of these, each new OS install was fast and smooth!

I installed the WD Blue Desktop 1 TB drive due to a SMART prompt from Windows that the previous Seagate Barracuda 750 GB with a 2009-08-12 date code should be replaced. The Western Digital ran fine at first, but soon things were getting slower and slower. Check disk and WD Utilities eventually revealed that excessive number of bad sectors were cropping up. The WD drive was so corrupt I could not clone it, but had to rely on a backup. I'm still waiting for the WD replacement, but in the meantime I decided to go back to original brand (Seagate) that did provide many years of reliable service. Not sure if this was a fluke or a bad manufacturing run, but I don't have the time or energy to waste on either trusting if the replacement will work or dealing with the slow response from WD.

The low cost of the WD 1 TB internal drive is excellent, the installation is quick and easy and it works perfectly. I have been using it for over a month now with no problems. It comes with all of the installation screws to install inside the computer (I have a desktop) but you will have to purchase the power cable and the cable to connect to the motherboard ($5-$20). I installed this drive in my wife's 5 year old HP desktop and it fit perfectly and it runs perfectly. It is super fast, and meets all of the needs of ordinary daily computing including word processing, email, net surfing and research all at the same time with no strain on the drive. I did not replace anything else in the computer. I did not need any other startup software from the manufacturer to get it started either. It worked right out of the box. While a lot of computer experts are hung up on technical details and each and every specification; most non-tech people just want their computer to work again or store more data for them. This drive will accomplish both of those objectives. It is fast at 7,700 rpm, fast enough for the average person's usage. It is also very quiet, how quiet does it have to be? It is certainly as quiet as the drive that came with the computer originally. The only bewares are that you have to be a little savvy to understand that you already have, or have access to, startup programs installed on your computer and that the computer is set to make the drive startup and function properly. Also, you have be able to plug the drive into the correct slot on the motherboard and know that there may be other programs your specific computer might need that could be necessary for the computer to recognize and utilize the drive you are installing. All of these items are not usually mentioned in most articles on installing drives but these are usually the issues that come up as problems in installing new or additional drives. I am certainly no expert, but I can usually research enough to solve most problems. Not everyone has the time or resources to be able to do this. I would recommend that anyone undertaking a replacement or addition of a hard drive to do their research first. That being said, this is an excellent choice for your replacement or additional hard drive.

I replaced an older IDE hard drive with this unit. The SATA connection allows for faster data transfer. I have a Western Digital external hard drive for back up storage. I hooked this baby up in under 5 minutes. The SATA connection makes jumper settings obsolete in a personal PC setting. It was very very easy to get up and running. I downloaded the software from the WD website as listed in the information sheet. The software made it very easy to clone my older dying hard drive to this new drive. After everything was transferred I tested many files and found no issues. This drive runs very quiet. I have noticed that my computer runs a little quicker since installing this drive as well. All in all it was a very good purchase.

Hard drive in clients older Win 7 computer bit the dust. We decided to give Linux Mint a try paired with this hard drive. Installation was a breeze and performance is excellent. Fast boots, quick program opening and plenty of storage space.Would also make an excellent data storage device when utilizing an ssd for the operating system.

This drive is AMAZING for its intended purpose. It is not a very fast hard drive - This is not the sort of storage that you would want as your primary drive.. If you want a fast drive, either get a Solid State Drive or 'WD Desktop Performance' or 'WD Black' hard drive (but these will be more expensive per GB and will consumer more power, except for the SSD which consumes less power). This drive has five very good aspects - 1) It has a LOT of storage for the price, 2) It consumes less than half of the power of a standard HDD, 3) It is extremely reliable, 4) It is much quieter than a standard HDD, and 5) It produces a lot less heat than a standard HDD. The best use for this drive would be as a secondary drive to hold a lot of content that you may not want to put on your SSD (which tends to be very expensive per/GB).

So, it's a 1TB drive at 5400 RPM -- not the fastest drive alive, but certainly adequate for my aging Pentium-based PC. This was an easy drive to install but I did have to format it to NTFS to install Windows. My old PC is now humming along nicely and I have all the room I'm likely to need for my videos, pictures, music, documents... So far, it has performed flawlessly. It's plenty fast enough for my needs and runs quietly.

I bought this drive to replace a 1 TB drive that died in my 4 year old desktop computer. The drive was easy to install and I was able to restore the drive contents from backup. Everything is working well with this drive. It is fast and very quiet.

After much review research regards use of hard drives for video surveillance equipment; took a chance on the desktop WD version. Yay for me! Works like a charm for my home CCTV low end four camera system. Quiet, reliable, and plenty of storage. Probably would have gone with the video drive if I had a higher end system- but for generic home security recording...the one fits the bill at a reasonable price. Been running non stop for several months now- review of footage is flawless (can't expect the recording to be better than the camera resolution!). It works. It is reliable. And quiet (mine is housed in a four sided cubby about 8 feet from my head while sleeping)- barely hear a whirring and that gets lost in the sound of anything; open window, furnace, AC, etc.

Western Digital has been around for many years, the drives are fast, easy to install, and reliable. I prefer them to Seagate, I believe that most of the drives are quieter and there is a better selection to suit your need.

It'a a good drive: it's quiet, reasonably quick, reasonably large, and hasn't had any issues so far (months, not years). I got the WD instead of the Seagate, largely because I've had issues with Seagate in the past (click of death), not because of any detailed analysis.

Runs great. Lots of room even if your not gaming. After installing windows still had plenty of room for more programs. Quiet and fast. Installed with no problems.