Customer Ratings & Reviews

Western Digital drives are reliable and hardy. It takes a lot of abuse, and it keeps on performing. This will be my 15th drive purchased and they all last a very long time with proper care and drive maintenance.

Needed to increase storage due to increased record storage. This fit the bill perfectly with SATA connectors and the ability set up easily as an additional drive. Works great with my primary drive which is an SSD.

I was on a budget so I could spend a whole Lotta money, this drive provided an excellent solution for a balance of speed and cost and capacity. I would probably buy another one in the future if I needed one. Or if I get rich I would love to get a 4 TB solid-state drive if they make those at some point!

Amazing service intallation of product, great product. Awesome customer service in Williston, VT

[Employee of bestbuy] This is a good hard drive and works well it is standard and easy to install

Great for typical storage needs in Windows/Linux, but do not use this drive for RAID configurations! This drive uses SMR(Shingled Magnetic Recording) method which is not suitable for RAID. You will corrupt your data with this drive. This drive used to use CMR (Conventional Magnetic Recording) which is ideal for RAID but WD swapped the CMR for SMR on many of their drives especially in the Blue line. I think theres only CMR in the larger dries of the Blue line. 4tb *might* be CMR but you will want to google which drives use CMR/SMR to be certain. Other than that great storage capacity for the price and WAS my go-to drive for storage till I learned about SMR vs CMR platter methods.

It held upnto the cloning process amd works great in the tower i put it in.

Works as a hard drive should. No difficulty installing and using.

Works Perfectly as expected! We use these a lot and they always seem to work right out of the box. Would recommend.

good drive , I use in dvrs and they last for a while . seem to be decent speed

I purchased a 2 TB SATA Harddrive for my security system receiver. The instructions for installation were easy to follow and my receiver backup system was up and running in less than 15 minutes.

Good mechanical hard disk drive. The solid-state ones are so much better, but they cost three times the mechanical ones. This particular HDD is fine, though. Reasonably priced.

Great storage drive for games. Yes it is mechanical but rarely heart it working and when I do its typically just on startup

Purchased to replace a failed external backup drive. Accepts 2.5 and 3.5 inch drives. Currently have one of each will be switching the 2.5 inch drive out for another 2TB 3.5 inch drive for a total of 4TB of backup and storage. Drives are easy swappable and have had zero errors or issues.

I bought two of these hard drives after my external hard drive crashed. They run very quietly and have excellent access times even after prolonged rests. I am going to get more of these to mirror my current drives for back up.

Gosh, it's a hard drive. Install in machine (Dell's use their plastic tray, so you have to get one of those if you need to), attach SATA data cable (some, like the Dell, require a right-angle connector so the case cover can be installed), install power cable (If you have an old power supply that uses MOLEX connectors you need an adapter), close the case and turn on the unit. Check the BIOS to make sure the SATA drive connection is turned on, and if the machine doesn't recognize the new HDD (say, if you installed this as an additional drive) then to to Computer Management (Right click 'computer' desktop icon, click 'manage', click 'disk management' and you can then tell the CPU to read this drive) There's a driver that installs automatically, and then the HDD works like a fully accessible HDD. No problemo. And being a Western Digital, should last a long time. All the above for a Win 7 refurbished machine.

This purchase is a good buy for the price. Convenient and easily accessed.

Another quality drive from Western Digital. Very Happy with the speed and ease of installation

I purchased this drive to replace a failing drive in a small tower computer. I've found WD drives to be more reliable than many other manufacturers over the years. They are a cost effective way to replace and/or increase the amount of disk storage in computers used in the home that do not require super fast access speeds offered by SSD's.

I find that all products from Western Digital are of the highest quality. I know I can count on them to work well for me. I must have 15 or 20 WD products in my home network. None of them have ever given me any trouble at all. The price per Gigabyte is hard to beat. I love these drives.