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.

I had to replace a hard drive for a PC that crashed. This hard drive was on sale. I was glad I bough it, I had enough space to transfer my old data over to the new machine once I add the OS to this drive. Well worth it.

It's solid performance and affordable. I needed it for my DVR.

It's a Beautiful Drive Connecting it and starting it inside me desktop computer is a matter of minutes. I will use this unit as a backup for all the important data I have in my computer. That includes documents, photos, videos and other work files. At first it seems fast and efficient.

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

I had never bought a WD drive before. My old drive had stopped working at all. I hooked it up and installed windows and have not looked back. This drive is great for replacing a broken drive or I imagine it would work fine as a secondary drive. It has been running for a month now with no problems at all.

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.

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.

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!

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

Working great install super easy very nice quality

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.

Very easy to set up and install everything was pretty much Plug and Play

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.