WD BLACK Western Digital 1TB WD Black Performance Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM SATA 6 Gb

Well, my last WD Black drive only lasted 2 years, but that's the nice thing about the 5-year warranty. I got this one as a mirror. The old drive started chattering loudly at 100% utilization during virus scans and backups about halfway through its short 2-year lifespan. One day it finally failed - first disconnected itself, and then when I reconnected, it appeared as "EMPTY." I first tried scandisk, and it fixed errors, but the disk now showed as full. I ran the free WD Diagnostics and it failed the short test, then on the long test, confirmed it had "too many bad sectors to recover." I read online to run chkdsk and do the full surface scan. It took 2 days to chug through the drive, but I got almost everything back. I had a backup drive copy, too, but I had a couple of things from that day that weren't backed-up...like my TurboTax file, which was almost complete (Murphy's law). I got back the most important files, bought this newer version of the same drive (the free replacement is now its mirror), and restored everything else from backup. This drive (and the replacement for my F1002 model) are running perfectly well, and I can't hear them over the fans, which is a nice change. I have one piece of advice when buying drives: get the highest rated drive with the longest warranty possible that you can afford. I got this one on sale. I thought about the 2TB or even 3TB versions, but I already have a 240GB SSD boot drive, and another 1GB drive (a Seagate that was a replacement for one that lasted 2 weeks - this one is a lucky one...I can tell :). Not to mention, 5TB of external drives, and a 3TB NAS, so why risk a bigger drive? Bottom line: good drive - fast, and quiet, and I sleep better with a 5yr warranty and a good backup! Read more

2 years in still working great. It is a big noisy but fits all my games and files fine. Works with Windows and Linux (ext4 or btrfs) Read more

I recently lost a PC, and am going through a technology upgrade cycle, and wanting to have data redundancy and convenient clones of hard drives to test under various scenarios (different PC's, docks, cloning hardware and software, OS's, etc.) So, I recently bought four of these (One from Amazon, and three from another PC vendor). All four worked as expected right out of the box, taking nearly a 1 TB of Windows 7 OS and user data from other PC's via various drive cloning processes, and then showing up as expected and letting me acess and update the data just fine. The drives seem to run reasonably cool, and are fairly quiet (considering I'm running them in external open SATA docks for now), and the speed is fine. Just what I'd expect from a modern WD drive. I don't take chances with my data, so am happy to pay the premium for the WD black technology and reputation vs., say the WD blue. I can't report on reliability/durability yet, since I've had these drives less than a week. If I have problems worth noting, I'll plan to post updates. In my experience (from memory), over the past 20+ years, I've had a LOT of experience with roughly 30 WD drives. All consumer drives, size ranging from about a GB to 4 TB. I've had only two problems. One was completely my fault. Back in the day when they sealed the drives with some kind of rubber gasket, I tore a small section of that removing a drive from a desktop case the first time. (Not a HW guy -- didn't know what I was doing). That drive crashed in a few days -- which again was COMPLETELY my fault as air (with hair, dust, etc) got in there for awhile. I had another drive start making noises and refusing to accept a full hard drive clone via Partition Magic version 8.X -- probably in the early 2000's. Again, not wanting to fool around with my data, I quit using that drive. The main reason I've stuck with WD is the drives seem to be very solid and perform consistently. I've use lots of both bare OEM and full retail kit WD drives, depending on prices/convenience. Read more

This is a FAST easy choice to your new SSD plus spinning drive combos. This drive has the speed and proven reliability to compliment your high end budget builds. I choose this for a video edit system as the scratch drive running in unison with a 240gb SSD OS and swap cache Windows main drive. The idea is A SSD gives your system a boost but whatever you're working with in video gets a good thrashing and one terrabyte is adequate for video "BIN" storage during an edit session. Using a good spinning drive like this will extend the life of your SSD and without breaking the bank give you just enough work area to keep a 2-3 small edit jobs workflow going. Any editor would have multiple external drives for long term or archival use anyways. WD Green drives are OK but the black series is better for workspace. Gamers may need far more space than 1TB though. Read more

I have for my own uses pretty much come down to this: NO other drive, or other new drive, unless it is a WD drive. Yes, they are that reliable and that good... plus, the price is right.... as long as you buy them using a degree of wisdom. Buy the right type of drive(life & use), the right physical size of drive(fit), the right characteristic of the drive for the use intended(speed), and from the right store (price). This is one of the best internal drives that WD makes right now (IMHO). It is fast, not THE fastest, but fast; it has a good sized cash memory built into it (64 MB) to help with speed and processing, and does not cost too much either! Possibly, from what I have seen, right now.... this specific drive just may be the best bang for the buck that is out there! Some are faster, but require 3 or 4 times the money too! Some are larger too, and the same applies to cost. No one out there has a better or longer warrantee than WD drives do. WD does not "lavish" customer service on us, but they ARE there if you need them!! You just need to apply a bit of effort now and then to get it. Good people! How can you go wrong? Buy with confidence. Enjoy! Read more