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  • Reliable everyday computing
  • WD quality and reliability
  • Free Acronis True Image WD Edition cloning software
  • WD F.I.T. Lab certified to work with a wide range of high-performance PC configurations
  • 2-year manufacturer's limited warranty
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.

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.

Perfect replacement for Laptop

I had a 1tb drive in my Dell 5587 laptop, and I had long considered replacement options. While a SSD would have been better, they are just not affordable yet in 2tb. I found this 5400 rpm 2 tb drive by WD which is the same 5400 stats as the drive I had. And since I just installed a WD-Blue in my desktop, I knew it was a great choice. Installation is pretty straight forward and so far the drive works as advertised. I will update my review if anything changes. On a side note, I will not buy any seagate drives as everyone I have had over the last three years failed.

WD quality as expected.

I build computers and I prefer WD hard drives. This hard drive was ordered fo an up grade to a Dell Latitude E6230 laptop. I had previously ordered a 750GB WD Blue drive from Cortese but that drive was new old stock(NOS) and the warranty would not register so I returned it. This drive registered properly with Western Digital with zero problems. It arrived in a normal WD shipping box sealed in an anti-static bag and secured in proper hard drive shipping enclosures. The vendor was Western Digital fulfilled by Amazon. This is a new hard drive as stated on website. The price was inline with other vendors checked and the WD web store. My experience is that market place vendors are often unreliable and dishonest. The few problems I have had with purchases on Amazon has been with marketplace vendors. I generally look for well known manufacturers items sold by Amazon and not 3rd party market place vendors. This hard drive is installed and working properly.

I always trust WD

I have been a fan of WD since the late 1990's and use nothing else since I have built PC's and have had Laptop's and upgraded them. Now I use this as an external device along with the Rosewill external enclosure Rosewill 2.5" SATA III Stylish and Screwless HDD / SSD Enclosure RX203 that says it is only able to handle 1TB SATA HDD but it does handle 2TB. You may have problems getting it recognized even if it does its little beep beep and shows a blue light. at first but follow these steps. 1) Start 2) Control Panel 3) Systems & Security 4) Admin tools 5) Computer Management 6) Disk Management 7) Find and right-click the WD external hard drive > Select Change drive letter and path. 8) Assign new driver letter to your WD external hard drive and save all changes. 9) Then you should now be able to see the WD external hard drive on your PC now.

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.

Best non-SSD hard drives, hands down. Fast, Stable, Reliable

Im a technician and work on Apple computers only. When it comes to mechanical drives (spinning) I use ONLY Western Digital drives. If I open up a machine and it’s got a Seagate in it I use it for target practice with a hammer. Drive failure rates are low in all brands overall but the drives that I’ve seen fail account for maybe 10% of failed drives. Seagate eats the lion share of failed drive manufacturers. WD is by far the most reliable brand for mechanical (non-SSD) drives.

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.

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).

OEM Harddrive from HardDriveGeeks

This is a OEM drive I'm debated if i should send it back or keep it,I like to have a manufacturer warranty on products that i buy,not a sellers warranty,so I'll sleep on this and let you guys know,if anyone is familiar with harddrivegeek let me know.

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