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2009 Macbook ProLaptop upsize

A family member had an old (2009) Macbook hard drive failure. This worked perfectly and added additional storage sorely lacking on the original drive. No hard drive lasts forever. This was a cost effective solution. Apple will not service these old Macbooks anymore, nor apparently provide the old IOS. Luckily the original IOS disks were saved and reinstall was possible. Works as good as it ever did again. Also replaced some missing case feet with a separate purchase from Amazon (for a lot less than from the Apple store - amazing what they will charge for tiny pieces of plastic, eh?).

Great drive, long needed upgrade for laptop.

I bought the 2.5" 2TB bare drive to replace the 500GB drive in my Dell Inspiron 15. Despite some negative reviews I ordered this anyway. It came a day earlier than expected and was packed in a sealed antistatic bag in a box wrapped with bubble protector and shipped in a padded packing envelope. Good care in shipping. A sticker on the outside of the antistatic bag read "2 yr warranty by Hard Drive Geeks." So if the drive does fail I won't be calling WD but contacting the Geeks. As far as hard drives go, they are all a gamble. Over the years I've had hard drives fail, but WD ones seemed to be the best, so I prefer them to Seagate. ….I put the bare drive into my USB drive dock and connected the USB to my laptop. I then used the free Hard Drive clone utility Macrium Reflect I downloaded from CNET Downloads. This is on a Windows 10 x64 system. All I did was choose the current hard drive, click Clone and then click the new HD in my dock as the destination. The software ran flawlessly and copied my whole drive in about 5 1/2 hrs. Then I shut the laptop down, unplugged it, took out the old drive and put the new 2TB drive in. Works perfectly, and I will then use the Windows resizing utility on the remaining space for storage. If you don't know how to remove or install a hard drive just put in your computer model and type hard drive installation on youtube, there are a ton of videos. Overall I am very happy with this product. If the drive starts acting up I will update the review. In the meantime I have put the original hard drive in a protective case for storage in case I ever need to put it back in for an emergency.

A Very Good OEM Replacement Item

I purchased this hard drive to replace the original one in a well cared for Toshiba P55-A5312 laptop that was gifted to me; a clean install of Windows® 8 (quickly upgraded to Windows® 8.1 with 70% of the "bloatware" removed), a battery replacement for good measure, and suddenly I am the proud owner of a great little machine. Delivery of the item was as promised and the product was packaged in a static-free bag in a heavy duty cardboard box. I have a Western Digital external hard drive that I have used for years, so I am familiar with the brand. Highly recommended if you need to replace a laptop hard drive on a budget.

Great hard drive

I’ve never ever changed a hard drive or done anything of that sort, but I have a mid 2010 13-inch white Macbook that’s given me no problems at all except for the normal battery replacement. Obviously its a little old so its bound to get slow. And mine was.. insanely slow. Even after deleting most of my files, it was too slow. I looked into it and decided to buy a new hard drive. I did a little research and opted for this one. I wasnt 100% positive it would work for my computer, but luckily it did. I think as long as it was a 2.5 SATA it should be fine. Installing it was very easy, you just need the right screwdrivers (Phillips and torx T6). I struggled to install new software on it, tried many different ways but most of them didnt work. In the end I just bought a USB and created a bootable macOS installer and that did the trick. I now have a perfectly good laptop, as good as new, much much faster than it used to be and with much more space (original hard drive had only 250gb). Very happy with the outcome and if you have the same computer, I recommend this hard drive.

Solid drive for laptops.

Every couple of years I replace the disk drive in my Inspiron 1525 just to avoid a disk crash. Each upgrade provides more space: 320GB, 500GB and now 750GB. Along the way, I added a Ubuntu partition of only 60GB. Ubuntu has turned out to be a very good alternative to the Mac OS X and especially the Windows 8 disaster. When I chose this disk, I went for the size so that I could expand my Ubuntu file system. My bias for the laptop disks is the slower 5400 RPM which seems to be more reliable. I would have liked a little more disk cache, but I haven't noticed any performance difference with the smaller 8MB cache. I do not like the SSDs because they become sluggish after a number of writes and Windows, when I use it, is always swapping memory in and out for some unknown reason. That's not good for an SSD. Since I am going with Ubuntu, I backed up my old 500GB disk using PartedMagic onto a large 3.5" drive. After installing the WD drive, I restored the exact same 500GB image. My plan had been to create a new 250GB partition for large files. This didn't work out since I had reached the maximum number of partitions (six or seven) that could be supported. It works great as-is and some day, I'll work on accessing the additional space by expanding the existing partitions or deleting one of the useless partitions that Dell has (ie the backup "D" partition and the embedded XP "media button" partition). Maybe when I do the next disk upgrade! I put the drive to heavy use, creating many small files and then combining them into large files. The drive is not loud, but can be heard if my laptop is on my lap. The noise is nothing compared to the CPU fan when it comes on which is probably due to it being full of dust after all the years of use. The highest importance is the reliability. I do not want to waste days to recover from a failure. Also, I do not want to back up constantly like my Mac's do. I do not use cloud storage - which would be very reliable - because the only files I would put on there I do not trust to be on the Internet. Since Snowden revealed the existence of back doors, one can be sure that criminals are using them. That being said, after three months of frequent use, this drive has been solid. I will update this review if a failure occurs in the two year period (and downgrade the five star rating if that were to happen).

Replaced Toshiba OEM 1TB hard drive on HP 17G laptop that failed after just 3 years

Switched to Western Digital so as not to reward Toshiba for a lame 3 year service life on their OEM drive. Have had good luck with WD quality in the past. Saved about $20 (about 30%) by buying this "used-very good" since it was repackaged and possibly previously returned. I did have to do a DOS Diskpart command to fully clean and format the drive as it may have been either unformatted or previously installed and was giving an error message when accessing it initially but no big deal.

Reliable drive

I know that this is the wrong drive for the application I am using it for (I needed a 2.5 in drive with high capacity that didn't use much power and remained cool running), but it does show that it is built well. I am using it as the second hard drive in my mac mini, which i use as my mac server and MDM. This drive is holding all my cache data, database and website for the Apple stuff, as well a my time machine backups for 7 macs (not my only time machine backup, my main time machine is my main server which is running on WD RE drives). This little drive uses little power, stays running cool in this enclosed environment, and and is ran hard 24/7 without skipping a beat.

Hard Drive Replacement for PS3

This review is for the WD Blue 750GB Mobile Hard Disk Drive - 5400 RPM SATA 6 Gb/s 9.5 MM 2.5 Inch - WD7500BPVX. I purchased the hard drive to replace an 80 gig hard drive in a PS3 When the hard drive arrived, I held my breath hoping the hard drive was the right speed, and it was 5400rpm. Exactly as described in the item description. I have read that, when used in the older "fat" PS3's, hard drives that have a speed of 7200rpm instead of the 5400rpm are not good for the console. The faster hard drive creates more heat and there is a possibility of the PS3 overheating and causing the dreaded Yellow Light Of Death. I didn't want to chance it so I searched for a Western Digital Hard Drive that runs at 5400rpm. It looks like the WD Blue run at 5400rpm, where the WD Black run at 7200rpm. But still, as a buyer, please double check in the product description. And double check the hard drive when it arrives. And that is a SATA hard drive. Besides, there is not much performance improvement going from the 5400rpm to the 7200rpm. I installed the hard drive in my PS3. (look at Youtube and there are plenty of guide videos on how to replace it. It is actually really easy.) I had read that some older PS3's will not recognize hard drives bigger than 500 gig. However, this one installed perfectly and is running strong. After formatting the hard drive and reinstalling the backup data, (procedure also showed on the Youtube videos), the hard drive still has 670 gigs free. I will never fill it up.

Good Replacement Hard Drive or for Making Own External Hard Drive

Kept receiving an imminent hard drive failure message on my Samsung Notebook NP-RC512. Immediately ordered this laptop hard drive. I used Paragon Drive Copy Professional (there are free cloning software available online such as Clonezilla or EaseUS Todo Backup) to clone the failing hard drive to the WD Blue hard drive. The hard drive works perfectly. Much cheaper than buying the exact same hard drive that came in my Samsung Notebook. Additionally, you can buy an enclosure case and put this hard drive in there making your own cheaper external hard drive. Depending on the required interface needed, you can buy an enclosre kit for usb 2.0, 3.1, 3.1 type c or lightning. Currently this hard drive shows no signs of any problems and works like a champ.

Nice Laptop Replacement HDD

I was recently given a laptop that was not in working condition. After inspection, I observed needed a new HDD. I thought about dropping in an SSD but new I wouldn't use the laptop much. I elected to go with this HDD due to price and capacity. Installation was easy and without any issues. The bootup is not blazing fast, but it's not annoying either. If you want something a little faster then go with an SSD or the Black Edition of this HDD as it spins at 7200 RPM vs the Blue's 5400 RPM. The Item arrived properly packaged as an HDD should. It was easy to install and has worked flawlessly ever since. I highly recommend this HDD.

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