Customer Ratings & Reviews

After 4 years of a lot of use my Seagate hard disk died on my Dell Inspiron N7010 laptop so the decision was simple, I knew I couldn’t afford a SSD and honestly I care more for storage than speed so basically I check online on Best Buy and came upon 3 options. Seagate, WD or Toshiba I already had Seagate and by all means I think they are good but I believe WD has the edge or at least that has been my experience and Toshiba I really wasn’t interested. I have 3 WD portable hard drives 1 terabyte each and they are still going strong just to give you an idea my laptop is on from 7 am to 9pm Monday to Friday and a few hours on over the weekend so that is a lot of hours of work for that old Seagate so no complaints just wished it last longer but that one was 640 Gb and this one is 1 terabyte so I’m happy with the extra storage plus I need something reliable and WD is very good in my opinion. It fit perfectly on my laptop I backup all my documents, videos and pictures and did a clean install of Windows 7 again, I had the original backup disk done by the Geeks here on Best Buy when I bought the laptop plus the extra Cd’s with all the programs from Dell so the installation was a breeze honestly the most painful part was waiting for all the windows updates and finally for the SP1 update which it took a while but I knew that so no biggie. You can clone your entire hard drive with their software and backup everything to another portable hard drive if you like or even to the new one with a sata cable if you have one. I have one from Acronis I got long time ago but I wanted to start fresh and no bring all problems to the new drive so I didn’t mind put back all my programs, pictures, videos and expend a couple of days doing that my laptop is faster now just like a brand new. The drive is super quiet and it works fine no problems at all if you are looking for storage and good price look no further, one other thing it may help you if your laptop is plug to the wall all day like mine I have it set to “High Performance” where the battery indicator is I’m not sure how is on other laptops but I suppose is the same usually it comes set to balanced but I need the speed and performance more than anything and I found this very useful. You may find it cheaper online by other vendors but if the hdd is faulty or damage and you have to pay to have it shipped back to them then you no longer save any money plus you have to wait a few days, one time I did get a bad one and it was here at Best Buy store but as soon as I realize the drive was bad I exchange it for another one at the store and in 10 minutes I was back in my house no problems and specially no need to wait. Some things are ok to buy online others like this not for me. Hope this review can help with your decision and good luck with your drive.

I am not sure of the ability of this hard drive. It was installed by Geek Squad and the computer only turned on twice afterward and no longer works

It serves the purpose, I can't really tell the difference. My computer remains slow.

I thought my PlayStation was the issue after getting a new harddrive my PlayStation has been working flawlessly

This hard drive is perfect for laptop replacements. Its extremely quiet. Good buy

I had to return the drive because it did not fit my HP laptop so I really can’t say if the product is good

The Geek squats did a good job. Not a long wait. Laptop is working well

Old setup speed not fast too slow on boot up stats

This was only a 5400 RPM drive and the cost was pretty high for this sort of hard drive. I returned the drive after taking it home an looked at the specs.

Save your money and buy an sd drive.it is just not worth using this, unless you use it as a secondary storage device.

This here hard drive SATA, was very easy to install.

I put all of my eggs in the basket and all of my data was stored on the device. I am not sure why but all of the sudden the device started acting funny, and the usual "zip and spin" you would hear from a hard drive began to sound like the disc would not spin or was jammed up. Needless to say all of my data is gone.....Thanks Western Digital for the junk you sell us.

I bought this device based on one of Best Buy's Sales Clerks, I wanted an EXTERNAL storage devive. Came home and put it aside to tend to a sick family member. Opened the box and packaging only to find that it is an INTERNAL storage device. Of course I was past the storage date on the receipt so I'm stuck with it now!!! Next I'll time read the box myself!

I replaced a hard drive that crashed with a similar one but I would probably purchase an SSHD the next time.

My computer would not shut down. Took it to Geek Squad and they replaced the hard drive. Less than 6 months later the same thing occurred and they put in another hard drive (paid for 2 so far). Less than 2 months and I am on my way back to Best Buy tomorrow my computer will not shut down again.

kept getting blue screen crash and wouldn't boot

Didnt know I had this product must have been put in when computer in for an update

It works as it should. Why I need to use fifty characters is beyond me.

This is what we were told we needed. Not sure I am seeing any improvement.

I'm unable to rate this product because it wasn't best harddrive for my MAC.