Western Digital 1TB WD Blue PC Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64 MB Cache, 3.5 - WD10EZEX

I usually have never had any trouble with Western Digital HDDs; however this time when I went to unplug one of mine (6tb Blue). The plastic over the power pins snapped off in my hand. Now having to replace the hdd and trying to get it to read in my hdd dock to get it fully backed up! Ugh!

I dont game, so I gave it 3 stars, just because I didnt know. I have a Synology backup drive with two mirrored 1 TB hard drives. Around Christmas, one of those failed, so I bought this one to replace it. It went in perfectly, and the mirroring was updated, and were fully protected again. Easy-peazy!

Excellent product.

Thanks I got and works perfectly.

I have been wanting for several years now to consolidate and deduplicate my older files onto a single drive and have my deduplicating software help me eliminate the extras. I wanted a drive that I could put into an external enclosure so I could move it from machine to machine. I have been trusting Western Digital drives for nearly 20 years because they last and last. This 8TB/5640 RPM drive was at an affordable price point for me, so I chose this one over a slightly faster but more expensive drive. Heres some free advice: get an external enclosure with a FAN -- for me it has doubled the lifetime of my spinning drives, including the 3 external WD drives I currently own. I have 3 of this specific enclosure, and they work great: https://www.amazon.com/Enclosure-Aluminium-External-Cooling-Tool-Free/dp/B07D72Z4XD/ref=sr_1_5 Enjoy!

Plenty of storage for the money. Cant go wrong with WD either. Have it for 4 weeks now. No problems at all. Exactly what I expected.

Great buy for a reliable product and a great price. Need more of these type of sellers on Amazon!

Amazing price for a great drive.

its ok to use

I was torn between the Blue, Red, and Blacks. Having always unhesitatingly gone for the WD Black, this time I already had SSD storage to provide fast, immediate storage. Did I really need to spend the extra cash on the WD Black line over the Blue? I decided to do some research. First, the RPM speeds. Red spin slower, somewhere around 5400 while the Blues and Blacks do 7200rpm. This makes sense. The Reds are meant to go in NAS enclosures which means possibly a few (1-8) disks in close proximity. The slower speeds generate less heat -- which matters more since there are multiple drives and not just a single drive -- which helps improve disk conditions and longevity. The Blues and Blacks are meant to go in Desktops. The Blacks have a 5 year warranty whereas these Blue only have a 2 year warranty (3 year with the Retail kit). The WD Black perform better than the WD Blue line, but not by much. If you dont already have an SSD and only need one main drive, pick a WD Black. To be honest, the main difference is the warranties previously mentioned. The extra cost of the Black ensures you wont have to buy another drive for 3 extra years. Personally, I figured I could afford to spend the cost of another WD Blue should it fail after 2 years, so the extra warranty period for the WD Black was not a factor for me. The last thing which helped me pick the Blue line was a Western Digital document which specifically stated that both the Black and Blue drives are fine in Desktop RAID setups -- Intel RST, LSI HBAs, etc -- they just arent recommended for NAS/Enterprise RAID setups. I was worried about TLER (lack there of) and the shorter warranty period but when I realized they could both be put in a RAID setup, the difference between these drives became a non-factor. That said, I havent yet turned my drives into a RAID array and am using them in JBOD -- Just a Bunch of Disks -- mode, meaning Im using them much as most people would. I can honestly say there isnt a noticeable difference on the user experience side of things on the difference between the WD Black and the WD Blue. I highly doubt a user that claims he could blindly tell the difference between the drives.