Customer Ratings & Reviews

This drive provides fast performance. Great read and write speeds. The installation is very easy if you are tech savvy. I was able to pick this up because of a change in branding for quite a discount.

The only downside I've ever had with WD in general is they can be a bit higher on the price scale: but that's a good thing. In this case, they have every reason to be. I've never steered anyone away from WD as they are a reliable company with great products and deserve to have that higher price tag. I know from working with computers for years that other companies may have some nice equipment that has a cheaper price tag, but you get what you pay for

Purchased it (on clearance) for use in my TiVo after the original one crashed. This drive took the image and expanded out to full capacity and seems to be working flawlessly. Some of the other reviews stated that it is loud, but I had it sitting next to my 'green' drive and couldn't notice an audible difference between the 2 drives.

There's not a whole lot to say about the drive, I didn't put it through the rigors of extensive performance benchmarking. I'm using it on a home server running a few databases, it's faster than my last drive, easy to install so I'm a happy camper. The only thing I'd warn about is that it's a bit on the noisy side.

The 5400 RPM drive that came with my computer was too slow and was creating a performance bottleneck, so it needed swapping. My last replacement drive was a Seagate, and it barely lasted two years, so I opted for WD Black to get the longest warranty possible Easy to install, the drive works great, but it's noticeably louder than the slower drive it replaced.

I purchased this hard drive for backup purposes, installed internally in my desktop computer. It installed easily via a frontal drive bay. I am also pleased with the speed of file backups. What I can say is that the device does the job, and I have no complaints.

I have a few of these hard drives that are currently being used in external enclosures. No problems - just super reliability,great speed; long lifespan and 64MD of cache - highly recommended!

This is a excellent drive for performance desktops that stay running all the time. Excellent performance, easy installation, can not find a better drive on the market.

This hard drive was a great buy not only for the size but you couldn't beat the price. I would definitely recommend it.

This hard drive was very east to replace when the one in my iMac crashed. It is large and works well. My only complaint is that it is a little noisy. I don't remember my original hard drive making noises.

1st one has been pretty reliable for a couple of years now. Its fast and holds lots of music and movies.

I read the reviews and decided I can live with a little noise. After all, at least I know it's working. This hard drive was very easy to install and since my failing drive was still operational, I put the new drive in first place on the cable. Now I can retrieve data from the old drive and I have a reliable new drive for everything else.

Second Black Caviar I have bought. THis one will go with the 1TB I have and has been running for 5+ years. Never had a problem with these drives.

Got this drive as an internal backup (time capsule) and it works great. Spinup time is quick and I'm not afraid of it losing my data anytime soon.

I had a back-up drive from another company that lasted about a year. This one is a lot easier to use and seems much more robust

I use these drives for video editing and they respond well. sometimes i pair them together and use as a raid.

Lost my hard drive and my computer tech recommended this product. He installed it and it is working fine.

Got this to replace a dying raid. I found many Cheaper drives with larger storage capacity but warranty was only 1 yr. This seems to be better built. So far its been flawlessly working for 2 months

I purchased this item while on sale. So far it has worked without any issues.

It works, and has been working for a while. Let's hope it stays that way.