Reviews of Western Digital Hard Drives: Cost-Effective or Fragile?

Just what I needed for an older hp slimline desktop. Perfect replacement, all mounting holes line up. Somehow it simply booted up and installed windows all on its own accord, no bios boot from DVD or flash drive nor internet access. Regardless of how strange I find this, it was the easiest fix ever. Replaced a 160gig. (Fried)

item is damage !

Worked as it should. Package was triple wrapped, including bubble wrap. Was impressed with care taken to ensure it arrived in one piece. Even bought another for a backup drive.

Plug and play storage, decently dependable drive.

Good data/file transfer rate. Runs smooth and quiet.

Es una excelente opción este HDD Mecánico de 2TB como complemento de una Unidad de Almacenamiento M.2 NVme de 500 Gigas para dedicar este al Sistema Operativo; y dejar el HDD Mecánico para Almacenamiento de Datos y demás Información o Juegos. Hasta la Fecha el desempeño del HDD Western Digital Blue es excelente.

WDC blue is my go to drive for bulk storage and I've never actually had a failure WDC in 25 yrs. 2x drives
6 GB and 8 GB. 6 was SMR and 8 CMR (good). Shingled is a special trick that extends size per platter with a penalty to some VERY WRITE intensive times. A drive under 80% full with quiet times will mostly never have the issues. Theory is --- data is written to drive in SPEED optimized way and later when the drive is quiet data is Packed in the SMR ultra dense magnetic format. SERVER don't have that quiet time. Raid array magnifies the effects when you have small delays for housekeeping on 5 drives all misaligned in time.

Attempted to return and meet with this statement: This item is non-returnable, but you may contact Customer Service to request a refund or replacement.

Be advised this drive is uses Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) that is being disguised as Advanced Format Drives (AFDs); this format makes it inferior compared to Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR). Very deceptive WD without warning the customers.

Running ok so far . . used in my DVR system but remains to see how HD is affected by heat and other issues.

these are oem haddrives and not retail

calidad Garantizada

Drive preformce ok, but randomly makes annoying clicking noises unlike other drives.

it's ok to use

Ordered exactly what I needed.

Muy buena calidad, el empaque llego súper seguro y sellado, me ha funcionado sin problemas

Loud hard drive, sounds like a constant airplane propeller in motion. Prior drive is same model and size. Prior to it failing was very quiet barley audible. New one is loud, loud, loud. Maybe just bad luck on this one.

Amazing price for a great drive.

Buena calidad

Works as exected.

Sent me a faulty hard drive try contacting them and the agents keep ending chat terrible assistance waste of money

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.

Cost to byte ratio is great. Installed and formatted easily. Didn't come with a sata cable. Both my last blue WD's lasted 12 years.

Western Digital 8TB WD Blue PC Internal Hard Drive HDD. WD Drives are really good devices, I have many external WD in cases. Have had then for many years and no problems. I made sure this drive was either owned and sent from Amazon, or at least sent from Amazon. I had windows control panel set it up, followed the directions, no problems works well. I just bought this drive, expecting it to work well, for years.

Nice

This could have been a great long-term storage drive for the price, but it has a fatal flaw. The fact it is SMR is NOT the issue either. I saw a few other posts here and there complaining of fragile SATA ports, and they weren't kidding. My drive showed up in proper packing, with no shipping damage. I immediately stuck it in my computer and couldn't get it recognized. I fiddled with it for probably an hour before I noticed the SATA data port was broken off. I'm not sure how it happened, as I only had possession of it for said hour and didn't drop it or jam the cables against the case or anything like that. The connectors appear to be made of bakelite, which is the most garbage-tier quality of plastic that has ever been made. I obviously returned it for a refund, but things like this should not be a concern on a high-capacity storage device.

I usually go for Seagate drives over WD, but the price on this 6TB drive was the same as a 4TB Seagate Barracuda. Needless to say, WD will once again not be getting my business for quite some time. (oh, and I ended up with the 4TB Seagate drive)