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

If you know anything about computers the thing is you will not buy a Sea Gate hard drive. They do not stand up to Western Digital at all. The plus is you get an extra year longer on the warranty. I have had very little problems with them. The others just dont seem to hold the title. AND I say the others

Bought this one for a replacement drive in a security system since the original was way too small, and it took a bit to get it formatted and placed in use, but it was flawlessly installed and is running well. It does a lot better job than the original drive in the system and hopefully it will last for a long time.

It’s been installed and is working as advertised. We’ll have to wait to see if the drive lasts the way it should. It should last for years, here’s hoping it does.

Thanks I got and works perfectly.

I had recently purchased an external hard drive case that is usb 3.0 and I used an old Seagate 1TB Barracuda I had laying around to expand my sons hard drive on his xbox one. Unfortunately the old seagate didnt stand a chance...It worked for a few weeks and then I got the dreaded TICK TICK TICK noise...hard drive platter was ruined...Not sure what happened. Anyway, I already had the 3.0 enclosure with fan so I opted to get another bare hard drive to install in there. I have always had Seagates and to be honest this is the first that has failed me. But it is indeed 8 years old. I installed the new WD in the enclosure in less than 2 minutes and plugged it in. I formatted it for xbox one and installed his games there. We played a few games and everything works like a charm. With the 6GB transfer rate I dont think its going to be an issue. Granted this is day one. I write a ton of reviews so I will be back to let you know if there is any changes in the hard drive. PRICE: For what I have invested in the hard drive and the fan cooled enclosure it is still cheaper than buying an external hard drive. Not by much as they are getting cheaper, but some. INCLUDED: You should know all you are getting is the hard drive..There is nothing else in the box. No instructions or cables or plugs or whatever you need to use for your project. This can be installed in a desktop PC that takes a 3.5 hard drive or a 3.5 hard drive enclosure. If you are unsure on how to install this please google it..Remember you live in a video era and you have unlimited knowledge at your fingertips. EASE OF USE: Simple PLug and Play ...You will need to format it for the xbox one. Put it in a 3.5 USB 3.0 enclosure and plug it in. Then follow the onscreen prompts. Its as easy as clicking a button. Like I said before I have always been a Seagate fan because that is the first brand I got 8 years ago and it lasted this long. This is the first WD I have had so I am keeping my fingers crossed on this one. I do hope this review helps someone out there. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. If you found my review helpful, let me know. Lets keep making better buying decisions together. Thank you for reading and as always Be Safe & Happy Shopping!!

Excellent product that I use as a secondary drive. Love the capacity and how quietly it operates. Does exactly what I needed for. Have always had dependable results with WD HDD and I anticipate the same with this one.

Was ok at the time

Needed to upgrade the storage on my server. 2x8TB did the trick. No issues yet.

I have bought several of these drives. In my opinion they have the best balance of price, capacity and speed. You can spend more money but you wont get better quality. These drives consistently get write speeds of 145-170 Mbps when in an external USB 3.1 enclosure. This is significantly better than my older Samsung, Hitachi, and even my older WD Black drives in the same enclosure. This drive has a cache of 256 MB which is bigger than most drives this size. When you factor in the low price, especially if you can find them on sale, this drive is a great deal.

This drive is not plug and play with my Dell Inspiron 560 with Windows 7 Pro. Heres how I got the drive to work: First off, the drive comes with no cable or mounting screws. I had to separately purchase a 7 pin SATA cable compatible with SATA II. Get a cable with a least one of the connectors on it being straight, rather than right angle, because a right angle might block an adjacent SATA receptacle on the motherboard. Second, get some mounting screws. I had some laying around, so I didnt buy them, and thus cannot give you the size or length. Suffice to say they are the same screws that are standard for most tower cases. FYI: if youve installed IDE drives in the past, you may recall having to set jumpers to specify whether the drive is primary or slave. No jumpers required with this SATA drive. Okay, on with the installation. After plugging the drive into the power cable and SATA cable, i turned the machine on. After it fully started up and I logged in, I waited awhile and finally got a message saying something like new device installed. Then I rebooted the computer and during the reboot I hit F2 so i could access the CMOS Utility screen. One of the options on that screen allowed me to look at the hard disc drives (HDD). I did that to confirm that the computer in fact saw a drive was connected. I did not change any settings, and simply exited the utility and proceeded to full start up of the pc. This step is probably optional since youll access the drive status in the Disc Management step, below. I then opened windows explorer and prayed that the drive appeared. Alas, it did not. Thats because the drive still had to be initialized, partitioned, and formatted. To do those steps, access Administrative Tools in Control Panel by going to Start, selecting Control Panel, and then in the Control Panel windows top right corner type Administrative Tools and hit the search magnifying glass icon. From Administrative Tools, go to Computer Management > Storage > Disc Management. (Fyi when i clicked Computer Management i had to wait awhile while the computer accessed something called a snap-in. I also had to wait awhile after clicking Disc Management for the system to find the data it needed regarding the status of the discs.) In Disc Management, you should see all your hard disk drives listed. My pre-existing hard disk is listed as Disc 0. The new disk is listed as Disc 1. I was automatically prompted to initialize Disc 1. After initializing it, the disc is listed as having unallocated storage. Right-click inside the black strip representing the unallocated storage space, and select New Simple Volume. A wizard will then walk you through formatting and partitioning the disc, and assigning it a drive letter and assigning the drive a name of your choosing. I chose to use NTFS as the formatting system and not to partition it into multiple partitions. Im not anywhere close to a computer expert, so I dont know if this was the best way to get the job done, but it seems to be working out fine for me. Hope this helps you all!