Customer Ratings & Reviews

Nothing special about this drive. It is a standard performance hard drive for laptops. It is a good replacement if you don't need anything of high performance or speed to get your laptop back in working order.

I purchased this drive to replace a failed drive in a friend's laptop. It was convenient (no waiting for shipping), affordable, and best of all it worked flawlessly. No issues to report

Solid Drive, reliable workhorse, but I recommend SSD's now

The drive seems very straightforward to physically install and use. No indication whatsoever is given in or on the box regarding where to find Acronis. The WD website is absolutely miserable. Searches result in piles of mostly useless results. Searching based on drive model number brings up no download results. Finally found it after about 15 minutes of frustration: htt p:// support.wdc.com/product/ downloaddetail.asp? swid=119&wdc_lang=en [remove spaces when pasting] Acronis, once finally installed, was easy and friendly to use. Note that to "clone", you'll need to have both old and new drives simultaneously connected to the computer which for laptops may require an external adapter.

Needed a replacement hard drive for my laptop. I purchased this one because it was the same as the original drive. Easy to install.

The hard was packaged well. easy to install. Best buy always delivers.

I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to install this HD onto my laptop. Super Happy

I buy this and the 1TB version all the time. Works great, never had a problem.

Great product, works great and with no hiccups! I highly recommend to everyone.

This is a great product and fixed our 100% of our issues

Two months and my laptop is as good as new. Best investment instead of getting a new laptop

Being in the computer repair business, I can always count on Best Buy to have these Seagate 500GB hard drives in stock at a price ($54.95) that is very convenient on short notice. These drives are very dependable and the warranty process is very easy if it should fail within the warranty period.

Wasn't sure if this movie would stack up to the last one, but it does and then some. Bigger explosions, bigger laughs and raunchier jokes and situations. A definite pickup if you liked the first one

As a computer tech for almost 30 years, I always purchase Western Digital Hard Drives. Great warranty support if needed and easy to work with.

I bought this to update an old aging drive to breath some new life into an older machine. It's Sata III but had no problems working on a Sata I system.

Excellent quality to restore my hp pavilion laptop

I HAVE BEEN BUYING THIS HARD DRIVE FOR THE PAST 10 YEARS FOR OUR BUSINESS, they last a long time

Bought this hard drive (WDBMYH5000ANC-NRSN) to replace a Toshiba MK1237GSX on my HP Pavilion dv9420us with bad blocks. During the initial setup (using Win PE booted from usb), out of 10 to 15 reboots (didn't record the exact count), the drive showed up 3 times as unreadable in diskpart. When I finally got back into my Win XP installed on the second hard drive (the computer has two hard drives and the WD was going to replace the first one), the first time I was able to access the WD hard drive without any problem, but when I ran WD's own "Data Lifeguard Diagnostic" tool to test it, it showed up as having 0GB capacity, while ironically, the tool correctly reported the second hard drive (Toshiba) as having 120GB capacity. I rebooted and ran the tool again, now it correctly reported the WD hard drive's capacity of 500GB. However, after I shut down the computer and turned it back on, the hard drive showed up as "unformated", though in fact I had already made two partitions both formatted as NTFS during the initial setup. I rebooted the computer without doing anything to the hard drive to see what would happen, and again it came back to normal. I am not going to trust my system and data with such an erratic hard drive, and I want to caution future shoppers of potential data, money and time losses if they choose to buy it.

I have purchased this hdd before and it worked great.

This hard drive started failing after 9 months. Confirmed after SMART, and diagnostic scans so didn't lose anything. Fortunately, it has a two year guarantee. Just keep a hold of your receipt.