Customer Ratings & Reviews

This drive is still operating really well over 2 years later. I upgraded a security system with this storage drive. It has been the perfect drive and decision for the reason it was bought for. The drive still reads and writes, and should have a few more years left in it. It enabled me to have up to 5 days worth of surveillance videos available before purging old recordings. This is on 5 cameras, at 1080p, configured to start recording 24/7 upon motion activity.

Not too difficult to install for someone who didn't know what they were doing lol

I need to purchase a new drive quickly, as my current drive was failing. I checked the Best Buy website for deals and of course, they had some. I went into my local store and bought it. The drive installed quickly and easily. Partioning the drive was a snap! The performance is quite decent and it runs prettt smooth and quiet. Great price for a 2TB HDD!

Needed a simple storage drive and this is exactly that. I didn't care about speed, but this is still a good drive regardless. I just wanted the storage space at a great price!

Large storage and a high writing speed. This drive holds a lot for the value

Works 100% and a lot of storage and cheap at the same time

great product - fair price, say again great product fair price.

While it's not a m.2... it's not far behind it...bought this for my son's cpu..he has m.2 for system operation but w.d blue is for games and runs pretty close to the m.2...i am very happy I saved the money and got this instead of a 2 tb m.2...

Fast and reliable hard drive for my application- home camera system.

This drive is cheap, reliable, and has lots of space. If that is what you're looking for, this is your drive.

Reliable Affordable Painless installation Excellent Warranty

I am using my WD Blue in a “toaster” as a network server “filing cabinet”. It allows me to access music, photos and documents from my laptops, iPad and cell phones. I also have a 4T Red drive. Both are great workhorses.

Purchased to use as a replacement data drive for a system with an SSD as the primary drive. No issues installing. it did come with 4 mounting screws, which I find ironic, since it does NOT provide the SATA interface cable. For those who may be asking, this model did come with the Acronis cloning software.

Could be my fault, could be manufacturer error or anyone's error really. I was in the store looking at hard drives, because i am upgrading boot drives in our gaming rigs and one of our computers has a hard drive from like 2013-2015 thats only roughly 1 tb, The model number on the box doesn't match the hard drive so in the store when I searched it up before purchasing I was under the impression it was 7200 RPM's, until I opened the drive at home about to install it realizing it was a different model number with no rpm indication on the drive itself, I looked up the second model number and found it was only 5400 rpm - I had to order another drive elsewhere for my initial intended use, but since it was on sale and it would cost over half of what was spent on the item in gas to return, Opened but haven't used yet, most likely i'll put it in another computer as a 3rd hard drive.

Always good to have a trusty & proven a HDD to backup your SSD. Also helps to save room on your SSD with picture & video storage. The proven track record of HDD will always make you sleep well at night (my first HDD lasted 7 years under heavy use).

Was looking for WD Black but settled for this one, price was too good to pass, this is a replacement for my No 2 drive which is for music and photos .was running out of space. noticed some sluggish performance while editing raw photos, able to resolve it by reinstalling the software, still scratching my head about that, so far it is working better than the first time...anyways I would recommend it, for price and capacity, speed is fine for a 5400 rpm drive...

I installed this hard drive when I had a strange feeling that my very old storage drive was on the fritz. Just as easy to install as any other hard drive. Since then I've moved my files over and had no issues with it. Hopefully it keeps spinning for years to come, holding my 100s of gigs of photos.

Picked this bad boy up to have extra storage, can never have enough, especially when backing up filing cabinet and 1800 photos. the drive is very quiet, or maybe my GPU and 7 fans are just too loud lol

My brother's PC needed a new hard drive for his upgrade to window 10 as he desired to save the information from his older windows 7 hard drive. Not only was the new WE hard drive superior to his older hard drive in capacity but it had increased speed with data. He is totally satisfied with the new hard drive.

I purchased this hard drive as a replacement for a pair of 500 GB Seagate drives that were failing. It runs a bit warmer than the old drives but is faster and is very quiet. Replacing those two old hard drives with this one also saves a bit of power and reduced the heat inside the case. Nice drive for the price.