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.

Purchased to replace a HP provided SATA Hard Drive for my desktop computer with two hard drives for RAID 1 protection from data loss. (Look up RAID 1 vs RAID 0 if you are not familiar with dual drive systems.) One of the mirrored drives had failed so I purchased this drive and had the Geek Squad install it to replace the identical WD drive that failed. The dual drive RAID 1 avoided data loss that might have resulted with the failed drive and the expert Geek Squad tech was able to install the new drive and restore the RAID 1 protection. Newer computers have solid state drives (but don't offer the same storage capacity), but since they are not mechanical, there is little risk of failure as with older mechanical drives.

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?

I have not used this one yet, but I have used many western digital hard drives before. And have been pleased with them. So I'm sure this will be just fine. this one is on stand by.

In my ideal world, I would walk into the store and pick up a 4TB WD RED hard drive for my Drobo. This is not ideal and I had a bad drive so placing an order online wasn't going to happen. I needed a drive and I needed it fast. The 1TB WD was the best drive Best Buy had in store so I went for it. I'm happy that my Drobo excepted the drive and it's been working flawlessly for a few weeks now. I'm happy with the speed I've been getting from my Drobo using these drives. I really don't have anything bad to say other than I wish I would have had the opportunity to pick up a bigger drive the same day.

I have not installed the hard drive yet however still writing in a five-star just because of Best buy's customer service and helping me find the product I needed. Had no idea what I was doing, was completely lost and didn't have much knowledge when it comes to replacing a hard drive however geek squad is very helpful guided me through the whole thing, and answered every question I had.