Western Digital 1TB WD Blue Mobile Hard Drive HDD - 5400 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 128 MB Cache, 2.5 - WD10SPZX

Quedo Perfecto en mi Asus Tuf A15, ya pude respaldar mis videos, mi musica y Tengo espacio suficiente para juegos

I used this to replace a toshi hybrid 500g drive. It cloned to perfection and I rebooted. The reboot on a win10 lp took about 20 min. I had done this procedure before and it took less time before. After quite a while the hdd light stopped flashing nad I decided to check the drive with win 10 tools. Scandisk found errors so I let it go through the correction phase and after many hours it ended and rebooted to the normal desktop. I checked and win reported no more drive errors. I checked it against another drive and performance numbers were ok. My 4 star rating comes from the win10 bootup time. It is horrendous. 15 min is too long to wait for the hdd light to finally clear on my laptop. BUT after tlight clears it is the most silent hard drive I have ever had. No accesses for hours of web surfing. Truly a twilight zone conundrum. I give the 4 stars because of the slow boot but once it finishes this drive is a freak of silence and performance.

This product (WD Blue 2TB Mobile Hard Drive), as almost all of the cheap HDDs on Amazon, this one falsely advertises a manufacturers warranty of two years. If a warranty is important to you, then youre being misled. These are almost always (Ive found none that are not, in a large search) a pulled OEM computer product with only (maybe) a reseller warranty included, but absolutely NO manufacturer warranty. Largely these devices are inaccurately described. Best case, youll find a reseller that offers a warranty themselves, worst case no warranty at all. ANY drive can wear out or develop bad sectors over time and many manufacturer offer a warranty to cover you for performance degradation or failure. Just to on OEM supplied drives. Apparently, this is a widespread practice of reselling these type devices among many similar products of different manufacture here on Amazon! Hence why they are cheap. No free lunch. Secondly, the drives being advertised as a new design, in some cases, may say that its using new SMR technology. This technology is commonly called Shingled but actually SMR is Shingled Magnetic Recording in either of two flavor. Heres the thing, in some cases the product is Device Managed and in several others (older designs?) Host Managed SMR. The ads dont say which, causing the need for further research. Neither flavor of SMR is new. Host managed many impose additional constraints on which device it works with and theres a question of the version of OS software might support the drive that may be a problem especially on older CPUs. I leave that research to you, buyers. Suffice it to say that SMR (commonly called shingling) has been in use since 2013 and PMR technology has gone the way of the Dodo. Why? Duh, its cheaper and denser tech. I recommend you perform a technology check, a manufacture date check and a warranty check (the latter on receipt) of any HDD you buy so you are fully informed. Make sure the device is returnable if not satisfied! HDDs in this size dont seem to appear on Amazon without either of two conditions that I dont want - Host Managed SMR and no warranty. Both I consider as defects in design, advertisement and undisclosed features. None are adequately, if at all, described in the ads. Cmon Amazon figure it out. Many of these new products sit on the shelves some having been made in 2013 and as OEM devices go to computer manufacturers for installation in new computers and other products. They have no warranty to the retail purchasers (even though the devices are specified as with one). The seller is expected to offer one. Few do so. Now manufacturers wanting new technology are reselling or dumping them to resellers and to you as they gather newer technology. OWC is one place to look for a warranted product. If you are looking for newer tech though, look into HAMR (Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording), in addition to SMR at an ever higher density HDD from several manufacturers (notably Seagate and a few others), especially in 2.5 inch drive technology. *UPDATE and Summary: I ended up with a Toshiba MQ04ABD-200 (the L200 series) from a reseller (OWC) thats actually new, with a 3 Year warranty. Not a pulled OEM product without one. Will register and/or confirm the warranty with Toshiba upon receipt. It was $25 more than the same product here on Amazon (free shipping though), but if it fails in a year or three, I will have recourse for an exchange from the manufacturer, while resellers of bulk packaged off-the-shelf discards, like the ones featured will be long gone. Knowing what I get, where its from and why its priced the way it is became an important bit of knowledge in buying storage devices.

You get what you pay for. It works as expected. It’s absolutely quiet. I don’t hear it at all. It was easy to install. What I didn’t like but I don’t see how it affects my usage is the fact that it didn’t come in the same label long as the one in its marketing and promotional photos. The package was secure when I received it. It didn’t appear used or anything like that. I used mine in the 2012 Mac mini as the second drive to store my huge photo library and my music. Works well.

I ordered this for my PS4 slim since 500gb wasn’t enough, and it worked great for a week. As soon as I set it up in the PS4, I was able to download over 1.5tb worth of games into and still had plenty left over. Less than 1 week in, I started hearing what sounds like a grinding noise, after some research, it was apparently the sound of the drive head reading/writing data. It wasn’t that loud at first, couldn’t hear it if I had game sound playing. But then the next week, I could hear it over the game sound and it really got irritating. So I sent it back to get a replacement thinking I had just got a defective drive. But wait, there’s more. After I got the new drive, I installed the same way, worked fine. I thought maybe I downloaded too many games too fast and it too much last time, so I would only download 1 game a day. Worked for a little bit. But immediately after the return period ended, the grinding noise came back with full force. If you’re looking for long term reliability, try out Seagate’s Barracuda drives, they might be better. I wouldn’t know though since I’m stuck with listening to grinding when I play my games now.

I am using 2.5 hard drive instead of 3.5 because I believe that hard drives should be smaller without sacrificing capacity. The 2.5 hard drive is used as my /home partition for storing all of my user data including Steam games in my Linux desktop and my small hard drive has never failed me so far. The hard drive may not be as fast for transferring files over my 2.5Gbit network, but that is fine for me.

Me gustó mucho el empaque que utilizaron para enviarlo ya que venía muy bien protegido, fue muy fácil de instalar y está trabajando perfectamente.

Installation was a breeze. The drive is working perfectly. Very happy. Almost bought this at Best Buy, but since it wasnt in stock, the wait would have been the same as Amazon, so I ordered from here. Very pleased with this drive. Its fast. Its quiet. I hope I can still report the same a year or two from now.

I have put this in my PS3 Slim over 5 years ago, and more recently (this year) in my PS3 Super Slim. Physical installation was easy. The drive is snappy, I feel like it performs a bit better than the stock HDD, but I have no objective measurements to support that impression. This drive has been reliable in my Slim, which is why I bought it again when I wanted to upgrade the drive in my Super Slim. Im very happy with this harddrive.

Probablemente debido a la distancia del envío el producto llegó dañado. Inicialmente el laptop lo reconoce y en la información del disco todo estaba bien. no tenía horas de uso ni nada por el estilo. Al empezar a guardar la información lo noto lento y que se congelaba, luego dejó de reconocerlo por momentos. Entre eso y que estuve revisando cómo hacer la devolución empezó a hacer ruidos fuertes y tuve que desconectarlo, traté de probar si mi computador lo reconocía una última vez y cuando lo traté de encender no me dejaba ni arrancar mi equipo.