Customers enjoy the Mainstream 500GB hard drive's performance and ease of installation, frequently praising its speed and user-friendliness. The drive's affordability and quiet operation are also highlighted as significant advantages. While some users wish for larger storage options, the overall feedback points to a positive experience with this product.
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Price
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Nice size hard drive for a low price
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This was a good buy for the price. It would be nice if the manufacture had free cloning software with this product. The drive is pretty quite.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Ease of use
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
More reliable of the two brands available.
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If you are adding a drive (as opposed to replacing an existing one), open the case before you go to the store. Does the power supply have an extra connector for a SATA drive? Do you have a spare data cable? Do you have an empty 3-1/2 inch bay for it, or will you need to get adapters for a 5-inch bay? These should be available at the store if needed.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
good drive
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drive works as expected. Remember to change bios settings from RAID to ACHI if installing Windows in single drive setup (HP desktop default is RAID for some odd reason)
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Nice hard drive
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I bought this to replace my failing 5 year old Western Digital hard drive. I like Western Digital products as they seem to have the best service life in my applications. I have had other manufactures products consistently fail after 2 to 3 years so I feel the Western Digital drives are the best for the money spent.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Drive is a little noisy, but works fine.
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The noise level is a little more than I expected, but the drive works just fine. I would recommend to a friend, but probably would suggest going with something other than Blue from the noise standpoint.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Easy transfer from old computer.
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I was running out of space for my work and had been putting it off because of the data transfer to new HDD. It is quite a step up from a 80 GB HDD.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Fast drive
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I had my hard drive fail in my PC. I've always liked Western Digital and this drive works great. I notice the speed when retrieving data.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Price
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Product performance satisfies requirements.
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The fact that the product was in stock and reasonably priced was convenient. Installation was not difficult.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Ease of use, Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great product
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This is a good hard drive, very fast, easy to install
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
works great
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I have had problems for a while with the memory and did not know that the hard drive was failing this solved the prob
lem
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Ease of use, Price
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
great replacement drive
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Item was reasonably priced, easy to install and easy to use.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Fast and reliable.
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I buy many drives and users don't need a lot of capacity for a business PC. 500 GB is way more than enough unless you want to store video. Drives made by another manufacturer used to be my choice but I have had many of them fail prematurely in the last 3 years.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Good deal, works great
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Purchased this for my husbands business PC. Installed easily and is working great so far.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Speed
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
great
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very pleased, fast and silent. installed for my sister and she has been very pleased
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great consumer drive.
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Great replacement drive for your Desktop PC. Good for the "home user". I have trusted Western Digital for years!
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Trust a Western Drive
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Hard drive in Dell computer died. Immediately went to Best Buy to purchase a Western Drive. Always trust these.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
My computer is working very good
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The geek squad was helpful and my computer is working. I don't know much about the hard ware of computers so I am glad to have the geek squad on my side.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Good Hard Drive
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This is my HD of choice I tried other Drives over the years but I always come back to this one by Western Digital its very quiet and it has a fast access time and rarely crash. Even when it does, you can still retrieved your documents.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Hard drive
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Easily added to Desktop
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I always keep two hard drives on my desktop and clone the primary each weak. This way if the primary fails then all I need do is swap them out and I'm back in business. I'm then only one week behind of my data.
With the Western Digital drives and using the Acronis True Image for WD things go very smoothly.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent drive
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I purchased this drive to replace an old noisy outdated drive in a clients pc. Worked excellent