Customer Ratings & Reviews

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.

Quality hard drive, not loud, has decent speed. Its massive storage at a good price

When your computer crashes and your hard drive freezes, it's not a good thing. So when I had to replace my hard drive, I didn't want to pay someone hundreds of dollars. I went on the Internet and decided which one was right for me. Then off to Best Buy to purchase it. The person who helped me actually helped me choose this model in stead. He said it was faster, easy to install, and lasted longer than the one I originally went to buy. He was right! Easy step by step instructions, was easy to install, and so fast and quiet. I feel like I have a new energized computer!

After building my PC 6 years ago I finally was running out of storage. Picked this WD 1 TB blue to be my new main drive for my Windows 10 upgrade. Installing the drive was simple and the OS was up & running quickly. I usually work with the Black series, but there's nothing noticeably different with this blue. It's quick, quiet, and has consolidated the three older drives with plenty of room to spare. Time will tell as with any hard drive, but past experience with WD drives has been excellent, and I expect the same results with this one.

Got this drive as a replacement/exchange for a new Seagate 1TB HDD from Best Buy that was unable to be detected by my computer BIOS right out of the box (see review for the Seagate 1B HDD). This Western Digital drive was detected in the BIOS right away, with the model number, and I was able to install Windows 7 right away without problem. As mentioned in the "What's not so great" comment, I note the Western Digital body/case is built beefier like the hard drives of yesterday as opposed to the thinner Seagate body (which is easier to handle) but just maybe the beefier body helps heat to dissipate better (and augur better reliability down the road). Also might say from having gone to both manufacturer's websites, I'd give Seagate the nod in that respect for ease of use on the website, layout and tools, but in the end, am happy to have a working hard drive.

Relatively easy to install, respectable store capacity, and very fast. It has operated flawlessly so far.

Ive had numerous Seagate Drives fail just a year or 2 past their warranty period, my last drive a 1 TB Seagate just failed, tired of failing drives and my large quantity of Western Digital drives which work without a hitch and issue, i decided to replace the failed seagate with this BLUE WD drive. High quality, quiet, speedy (as any physical disc drive can be). Proven reliability and performance. Plug and play, reformat to work in win or mac. No regrets.

I rebuilt/repaired a computer for a family member, and needed a new hard drive. I wanted to put something larger in than what they had previously, and found this HD. They went from a 250GB HD up to a 1TB HD. The drive is quiet, reliable, and was a good price for the storage amount. I had no issues formatting it, installing the OS, and apps. Computer has been up and running for a couple months now, no issues. Very happy with this HD.

Easy to install, great price, plenty of space, runs quite and smooth. What more could you ask for from a hard drive?

Computer started taking longer to boot and giving error messages. Took to Geek Squad for service. Computer diagnostics showed HD passed but Geek Squad ran better tests and show HD was failing. They recommended this 1 TB HD as a replacement, installed it, loaded OS & drivers, tested and returned it to me. It boots fast, runs great, faster than ever before saving and opening files and programs. And it is quite.

I finally decided that since so many of the computer games that I play these days are digital only, or that require so many downloads even if they were bought on a DVD-ROM, that I needed to get a hard drive with more storage. I had been making do with a Western Digital 320 GB hard drive paired with another one that is 250 GB. I kept the newer of the two (the 320 GB) one as the back up drive and installed this one in the place of the smaller drive. Installation was just as easy as it has always been since I made sure that the width of the new drive would fit in my PC's drive bay. Western Digital has maintained good quality and this new one seems to be as well built as older ones I've used. My computer (running Windows 8.1) recognized the drive no problem and I was able to install the operating system on it easily. I've used this drive almost every day since I bought it for surfing the net, productivity software and gaming. I've installed and played some fairly demanding games on it and haven't noticed any increase in noise, even when the game is really taxing the hardware, over my old drive. I can wholeheartedly recommend this drive.

easy to install and very quiet! has great speed works very well on my old windows 7 desk top.

My system drive crashed on my desktop system recently and I had to replace it. I found this drive at Best Buy to replace it. It had the same electrical, mechanical and performance specs as the original. The installation went smoothly. The drive is quiet and performing without any problems. I was impressed with its price and ready availability.

Easy installation, No problems works great so far.. Tons of space can't for see filling it, fast!

I was given a four year old Dell 380 with a 160 GB hard drive. The Dell was labeled as a Widows Seven but running XP. I found the W7 boot disc amongst the accessory disc/papers that came with the freebie. My local Best But had the WD - Mainstream 1TB Internal Serial ATA Hard Drive for Desktops in stock. GREAT PRICE. Easy installation with the quick mounts. Loaded the W7 boot disc and followed the googled installation guide displayed on my iPad. VERY EASY. It is nice not having all the unwanted programs slowing startup/shutdown etc.

Fast @ 6 Gbps, unlike some others. Reliable and quiet at an excellent price!

I purchased 2 of these. Installation is quick and easy.. Set one as D drive and used the Acronis software to clone my original C drive. Very fast way to clone the drive. Then removed original C drive and set the cloned drive to boot with the second WD 1TB as d drive. Total time 30 minutes to install. Super quiet drives are fast and reliable.

Bought this as a backup and test hard drive when fixing computers and it works like a charm! Quickly installs Windows & programs and is super quiet. Works great as a boot drive or a dumping ground (when paired with a boot SSD) and has plenty of space for music, movies, and games. Buy it!