Customer Ratings & Reviews

Western Digital has always been a leader in the HDD market. And lately since they have been branding their hard drives with "colors" it makes it a bit easier to choose according to your intended usage. Ours is used in a Unifi network with a Protect (Surveillance) module on the network. Our NVR has the purple drives specialized for surveillance.

I bought two of these, one was Dead On Arrival. The first installed with no problem, I Installed the second one but got an error message that the disk was uninitialized and to first initialize it. First time I'd ever seen this error. Looked up the error information on the internet and it explained how to use the windows (Win 10 in my case) CONTROL PANEL -> ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS -> COMPUTER MANAGEMENT -> DISK MANAGEMENT menu string to get to a screen that listed all my hard drives, including the new one which came up with the status of UNINITIALIZED and a message to click on the INITIALIZE option to fix it. As soon as I clicked on INITIALIZE I received another error message -> THIS REQUEST FAILED DUE TO A FATAL DEVICE HARDWARE ERROR. Searching the web for this error message basically indicated there was no way to recover from this and it should be returned to the manufacturer. The next day I took it back to Best Buy and they took it back as defective. They didn't have any more in stock at the store but they ordered a replacement one for me and it arrived at my house in two days. This one started up as expected and has been running fine now. My thanks to BestBuy for its return policy and help in getting a rapid replacement. The 3 rating was for getting a new, out of the box, defective hard drive, not BestBuys fault, BestBuy gets a 5 for the handling of the return process.

After several months of use I can say this HDD is fast and reliable with Low noise. Will buy again.

I have bought a few of these for my NAS machines. Fast and durable. I strongly recommend.

Setting up an new NAS, and these drives work like a champ, and the price is right for what I needed for this NAS system.

Instructions were easy to follow. It also comes with software to copy my older hard drive.

Pretty good price. Easy install and got the job done.

I've been running these drives for the past 2 years no issues there not the fastest but there very reliable

It's a hard drive! I use these in an external USB drive toaster. I've had these for years, they're reliable. I wait to buy these when they're on sale.

Bought this as a replacment boot drive for my company's fileserver. I've always been a big fan of Western Digital and this drive did not disappoint. The trickiest part was cloning the drive from an SSD. It took two tries to get the clone right, but now it's chugging along and I expect not to have to replace this drive for years to come.

Quality hard drive, easy to install, has been working smoothly for a while now.

It is easy to install, and a very good option to have more espace on the computer, one of my best buys ever

So far so good, and these are running about 5 degrees F cooler than the Seagates I have in the NAS as well. Recommended.

Good quality drive. I have 5 of them and currently using 4 on my home lab. Dependable name. I have tried a lot of brands and I always come back to WD. I look to having at least 3 more of them to add to my zfs pool. Now if I could only find these in stock. Seems like they go fast and I barely make it in time for their last one out of my 3 regular BestBuys near me. I hope they stock these well in the future. The price tends to be a little high for spinning rust. I bought my last one on sale.

Excellent price to capacity does the job I needed it for long term storage of videos

Drives installed easily into the NAS device to replace the ones that had failed. have been working as expected with good response and fast conections

Working great so far. Was priced very competively for these types of drives

Reliable storage for media collections not reliant on high access speed, Movie, Pictures, music, etc,

I just got this recently so I can't speak to durability but it seems to be working great so far as a replacement/uprgade in my NAS. In store pick-up was convenient as I was running other errands and nice not to have to pay for shipping or worry about porch pirates. Price was competitive with the other common options.

Great for my nas. Own multiple for a few years no issues. Got another to expand storage