Customer Ratings & Reviews

WD makes good drives. Yes any man made electronic product can smoke one day. However WD has a good history which is why they have been around this long. I had to build a new server for someone. They had 2 new Western Digital 2TB drives in the equipment they provided. I needed an additional drive for a RAID 5 setup. Went to BB and they had the exact same drive. To be able to get a drive for less than $100 and create a RAID 5 storage for a PC or server. Fantastic!

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.

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.

Very easy installation! Had to look up a tutorial to see how to put it in, but that’s no fault of the product just my inexperience.

I had been waiting for the 2TB class of drives to drop in price a bit. I have an older WD Studio external FW drive that came with 750GB (which was large when I purchased the external in 2008). I picked up this WD 2TB to replace the still running 750. Installation was easy and the new 2TB is humming along. The drive's warranty is pretty standard at two years, but I'm hopeful it will keep running as long as the prior 750GB did, 6 years of intermittent use. Throughput is limited by the FW800 interface. I've had no issues with speed nor drive disconnects. This external case is hanging off a 2011 Mac Mini. Drive has three partitions, one of which is a boot partition I've been using for testing Yosemite. Overall, I'm happy with the drive, and the price from BB. I would recommend this drive to anyone looking for reasonable performance in a 3.5 SATA drive.

I think you have great products and services. My computer is a little out dated but your geek squad was able to find parts to install to keep my computer working properly. The staff really know their stuff when it comes to electronics. Thank you.

[Employee of bestbuy] Runs well and hasn’t died after 2 years. Pretty fast, doesn’t make me regret having it versus my ssd’s

Bought this WD drive to replace a Tivo hard drive, worked like a charm! Over the years any of my hard drive needs have been met or exceeded with WD products, just buy/deploy/relax !!! Very pleased with price/performance/quality.

I need to replace my hard drive, it was starting to crash, instead of just replacing it I installed a Solid State Drive instead for the Programs and I installed this Drive for storage, my computer is now running quicker than before and I have enough storage for what I do.

This is a great hard drive. I installed it in my pavilion PC in the extra slot. Needed an extra SATA cable and power supply cable. Needed a clone program to clone my old failing 1 TB drive to this new 2 TB drive. It all worked as expected. The new drive is fast and so far so good!

Seem reliable and great value for the price. I've purchased about 15 of these (2TB version) in the last 24 months and haven't had any bad ones. Will continue to purchase.

Super easy to use. Fast and with lots of storage. I have zero computer skills and I was able to replace the old one, for this one and install windows with no problem at all. Easy and simple to use.

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

I bought this as a gift for my cousin and it works well to this day. Its one of the fastest mechanical drives on the market. If you are looking for a storage drive that can play some modern games this is a good budget buy.

I was gonna buy a 1TB hard drive but when I saw the price of this 2TB hard drive for just slightly more than a 1TB I grabbed it! I have had great previous experience with Western Digital hard drives so this was an easy choice. So far great as usual. I highly recommend this product.

I have purchased many hard drives in the past and this has one has meet all expectation. I am using this to store my movies and pictures and I love the access speed. It was a great price and was easy to install. If you are look for an inexpensive internal hard drive, this is the one to get.

Slapped platen drive this into my kiddos PC for extra storage. Works great for everyday computing. I installed a NVME M.2 for the OS and programs.

Don't let the 5400 RPM speed fool you, this 2TB hard drive is still fully connects to any 600MB/sec SATA III motherboard/interface and is backward compatible with SATA II and SATA I. I bought this to replace an older hard drive that was failing and in the heat of the moment of getting such a good deal for a 2TB drive, I failed to notice the 5400 RPM speed. But to my surprise my backup image of Windows 7 Ultimate showed this to be as fast as the best laptops I've seen that use hard drives, and it's very quiet as well. All in all I've purchased three WDs "Mainstream.. for Desktops" in the past month and they replace six old hard drives that BestBuy kindly accepted for recycling. Smooth, fast and quiet this 2TB model is.

With all the info out there giving high praise to SSDs, I took a chance on this mechanical drive because of the low price point. It has been beyond worth it. It's fast, cheap, and the data capacity is bountiful.

This is a very good hard drive. Good price for the capacity of the drive. No problems with the first format of the drive. With the capacity of this drive I am able to easily Map/mirror the entire capacity of my Home Server drive, including all picture, music, and video files.