The hard drive in my Samsung security DVR system went out. I was unable to record or view my cameras remotely using a tablet, laptop or smart phone. After considering buying a whole new system, someone suggested to me to "just replace the hard drive." I thought this was a ridiculously simple idea but I went ahead and took a chance. I purchased this Western Digital AV-V WD10EURX 1TB hard drive and I am so glad I did. The removal and installation was simple enough. After replacing the hard drive, I plugged in my DVR and, after a quick format, it worked perfectly! I am back in business. Western Digital is synonymous with quality hard drives, internal and external. This one is no exception. It is a work horse and it is tough. My security system runs 24/7, so the hard drive is constantly recording. It does so very quietly with hardly a detectable sound. It gets the job done. If you are considering purchasing this hard drive, my recommendation is to just do it. You will not be disappointed. Do you need an internal hard drive that you can count on to work hard and continuously for years to come? Then this is it. Read more
What a surprise. Quiet and works great. A real bang for your money for the amount of storage you get. I needed an extra storage for my PC and I was worried about clicking noises from these kind of drives but this thing makes no noise. Read more
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Cheap and great for home study projects. I bout 4 drives, 1 was locked. Returned it for a replacement with 0 fuss. All 4 are working in a zpool config to this day. Read more
It works, but during heavy write cycles it has a high pitched squealing sound. It is fine for a server or something where writes are fairly minimal (or larger file syncs done overnight), but for a media server or video recorder where you may be spending some time writing larger files, or a DVR in any enclosed room, the squeal really gets annoying. I installed in a server with Fedora that will be a personal media storage server, so I had to write around 300GB of existing files to the server, and the entire time it was writing I heard that constant sound. This is the first problem I have had with any WD hard drive in over a decade. Read more
I received this drive as a refurbished unit and was completely satisfied with the quality of the product. It looks and operates as if brand new. Read/write speeds are snappy and everything functions as it should. For $40 it is a great deal. I paid full price for this product and did not receive any discount for a review - my review is unbiased and based on my personal experience with the product. Read more
Very quiet, I doubt it would be great for gaming but I use it with an external sata adapter thing and use the drive as a backup drive and it's been doing great. The box it came in makes a great storage box too. A year later and it's still going well, now using it as the main storage drive in my PC rather than a backup drive. It can be a bit slow to spin back up once it goes into the power saving mode, but I guess that's one down side to intellipower drives. Read more
I bought this drive for my best friend who was trying to build a new PC on a budget, and I mean BUDGET. For $10 more you can by a brand new drive from WD, those $10 for him pretty much kept him in budget for what he wanted to spend on the whole build, but boy were we wrong to go the refurbished route....Now I'm sure we just got a bad egg, I don't want to believe that ALL refurbished products are bad, because they're not, sometimes refurbished items are really really good! but this wasn't one of those times....As soon as I tried installing a fresh copy of Win 10 off USB the system crashed.....Ok no big deal, let's just start over, finally (after 5 tries) get to an installation screen, and go to wipe the drive, aaaaaaand crash. OK ok, lets try again....into an infinite boot screen....Now at this point I was getting nowhere trying to boot from it so I swapped it into my personal rig to try to diagnose the issue. Which didn't work because it crashed my entire system to the point of the Windows Recovery Tool not being able to even repair and get to my desktop. FOR 8 HOURS I tried getting this thing to work, finally I was able to get my personal rig going and set this drive up as a hot swap drive in BIOS so that I could investigate after I could get into my desktop. As soon as the drive was plugged in my whole system slowed to a crawl, 'My Computer" crashed, Disk Manager crashed, Disk Optimizer, Crashed, as soon as I could click it as "Drive E" crash. If the drive stayed plugged in it crashes my whole system into a black screen. After (a lot) of trial an error I found out that the disk upon plug in shoots up usage to 100% while not reading or writing anything. Any chance to wipe/repair/investigate the drive leads to an insta-crash. Hard drives are just one of those things you wanna buy new. It sucks that this was my experience with a refurbished HDD, especially since I exclusively use WD drives as my storage drives. ANOTHER THING TO NOTE: After some investigation this seems to be a fairly common issue with WD Green drives new or not, nonetheless I still feel I was dealt a bad egg. Read more
