WD Blue 1TB Internal SATA Hard Drive for Desktops

Instead of having my 21" Imac upgraded at the Apple store I purchased the Mainstream 1TB Internal Serial ATA Hard Drive at best buy and did it myself. Well to be exact I let my son do the work as it has been his passion for many years. Not only did it save me around $175, but I upgraded from 500 gig to 1TB so it was a double win.

I needed this to fill a drive bay slot in my Drobo USB storage device. It "fit the bill" without flaw. It's a smaller Drobo than the others I own and the 1TB capacity was exactly what I required.

This drive replaced a failing Seagate 3 TB drive. That drive was about a year and a half old. I read a lot of good reviews about this one and a really bad 40% failure rate one about the Seagate 3 TB. This drive is cool and quiet. I'm using Linux Mint 17.2 KDE. I'm going to limit desktops to 1 TB drives from now on.

April 2021: After a decade my old Seagate hard drive crashed while in use - Blue screen of death. So I purchased this Western Digital 1GB SATA drive model WDBH2D0010HNC-NRSN as a replacement. Price was right and BestBuy had it in stock on the shelf. Drive has been in operation a month to date. Formatted with zero errors. Speed is very good (6 Gb/s @ 7200RPM). Noise level is very low. 2 year warranty. Made in Thailand. Compatible with Win 8.1 and Win 10. Comes with 4 mounting screws and quick installation guide. This is a perfect replacement. DB (old techie).

Just what i needed for my computer. It was a breeze to put in to complete my project.

My only "complaint" would be that you didn't actually have the model I was looking for so we ended up choosing a different one. I'm not very familiar with it all but it's my understanding these hard drives come in various "color" models.. for example, Black, Green, Red... everyone I asked at the store were unsure what I was talking about which was sort of surprising.. I had to request to take the product out of the box to ensure what color they were. The labels on the product are color coded. The person at the register reluctantly let me take a look but kept telling me all labels would be black... that was not the case. Maybe your computer people working in the stores need a bit more product knowledge?

Was working on a Friends computer and he couldn't figure out why it was running so very slow, and getting a blue screen after booting up. Found out it was a bad drive. Bought this Western Digital 1 TB drive to replace his existing one, and that booted up without any issues. Best Buy had it in stock and took only a few minutes to pick up, swap out, and install the OS. Everything is great.

Excellent value, good solid drive. Speeds as expected. Nothing special, but the price tag is right. If you need a bunch of drives for system images, data archiving, or any application where speed isn't absolutely paramount, it's hard to beat the WD Blue 1TB for price and convenience. (By no means are the drives slow for what they are, they're just no SLC NAND SSD... but again, neither is their price tag.)