Customer Ratings & Reviews

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 reading several reviews of numerous replacement drives, this is the one that seemed to fit the bill perfectly. Installation was super simple, and programming it was even easier than setting up a new computer. Performance is actually better than the previous drive and even the kids have not complained when using it for online games compared to the old drive that was constantly lagging and stalling while playing). This new drive also handles more programs simultaneously without overheating.

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.

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.

This is a fast hard drive considering its not solid state. I ran some bench mark test using a popular program. Here are the results. Note in parenthesis is the speed of a 2+ year old PNY solid state drive. Minimium speed: 53 MB/s (110.2 MB/s PNY SSD drive) Maximum speed: 180.6 MB/s (160.2 MB/s PNY SSD drive) Average Speed: 138.1 MB/s (145.4 MB/s PNY SSD drive) Access time: 17.4 ms (0.27 ms PNY SSD drive) Burst speed: 263,8 MB/s (129.1 MB/s PNY SSD drive) Conclusion; The 1TB rotating hard drives are very fast and competitive with SSD drives especially when dealing with huge video files like 5GB and 8GB files. SSD drive have such a fast access time they seem and feel faster and more responsive than rotating drives but let me tell you SSD drives do slow down big time after 2 years of service and you can see from my test results that the 2 year old SSD drive and WD rotating drive are close in speed. I have rotating hard drives that still work after 10 years of service. If you need absolute best reliability and good performance with huge video files go with a rotating hard drive like the 1TB WD hard drive. If you play games on your pc you will want a SSD drive. You will notice the SSD speed advantage during your computer boot-up but after that you bill hardly notice a difference when the SSD is a few years old. Of course each brand is different and the technology gets better and better all the time but so does the rotating drives. The advantage of the 1TB drive is it's a single platter drive, simple, reliable, fast.

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

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.

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.

Bought this to replace the wife's main drive in her windows pc since it was starting to fail. Luckily I was able to clone all the data over on the this one with no problems. Drive works great, very quiet and fast for being just a blue drive. Always relied on WD drives, never had one fail yet!

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.

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!

Bought this to increase my computer's storage space. Preforms faster than my old drive, but make sure you buy a 6gbps sata cable as one is not included with this Drive. Installed very easily and was instantly recognized by my computers.I can say I've have had no issues with it at all in the few months since purchasing it.

My computer hard drive failed and had have to have new one quickly. I installed this with no difficulty and it works great. I believe that this is running faster than the original that came with the computer but I don't have any data to show that this is the case. I would buy another if my other computer needs a replacement.