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

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.

The hard drive on my UniFi network died. This was plug and play easy to get it back up and running. Plenty of storage and it sits in the living room quietly doing its thing! I love it when technology actually works.

Had to replace a SSD with a HDD due to bios problems so went with this drive. First, off the bat, I had NO PROBLEM registering this drive! I registered it while it was still in the sealed wrapper just in case but the registration took and so I installed it. This drive is very thin! You definitely will need a caddy for laptop installs unless you have a newer, small laptop. My 17-inch had no problem with room. Speed is fine; not near as happy as with my SSD but I had no choice - a brick laptop or downgrade to a HDD. Ohh well ... that is Asus for you! Again, NO PROBLEM with registering though it did not include instructions and shipped in a brown box; most likely a OEM model but as long as it was able to be registered and showed a warranty active I cannot complain. I HAVE NOT used the software yet as the external box is still enroute through Amazon.

This drive just plugged right in and booted up just great!

Bought this for my brothers ps3 slim for an upgrade from the current drive, runs much faster and quieter. Cheers!

Its a hard disk drive its not fast but its What I needed

I ordered this to replace a failing hard drive in a laptop. It works as described and does what is needed.

I use this for auxiliary storage for my DVR. Very quick spin-up time when activated. Low power consumption. Powered by the USB port. Has been in service for a couple of years now, with no issues. The next one will likely be an SSD, but the prices on 2TB SSD is still quite high, so they are not yet competitive in an application like this.

Easy to install, pleanty of storage.

An amazing hardrive a bit slow but works well for my PS4 Slim