WD Blue 12TB Desktop 3.5" Internal Hard Drive, 7200 RPM, SATA 6Gb/s, 512MB Cache

(for details on the drive, please skip down the page, underneath my rant) The product arrived on the date it should have, nice and early in the day. However, despite being in the house, waiting for the delivery, the driver 'presumed' that nobody was home and left it with a neighbour. WHY ?!?!?!? I have no idea. Odd if you ask me. Then on top of that, he never left a card to say its been left with a neighbour. So the only way to trace it was when later in the day I saw it said delivered and managed to trace the signature to a neighbour. However I am new to the area and this was a major annoyance. Its not hard to knock.... or ring the bell.... or leave a 'sorry you were not home card' ____________________________ REVIEW ON THE DRIVE This drive was well reviewed and in some ways appears superior to the caviar black, especially on 1TB models like mine. The price was good (despite nearly a £1 rise overnight) I have had bad experiences in the past with Seagate. So tend to stick to brands i have had good experiences with. Sony, Samsung, Zalman, Corsair etc The drive is fast, has 1TB of storage. Its SATA3 with a 64mb buffer. So performs nicely. The only grueling thing done so far was copying files over from an old SATA 1-250GB blue. The writing speed was impressive. Several groups of 40-60GB in less than 10 minutes each. 5/5 for the drive 5/5 for speedy shipping 1/5 for stupid parcel force man 2/5 for packing - 1 end of the drive was un-bubblewrapped.

Western Digital are reliable. I have had more than a few mechanical drives fail on me but none of them have been Western digital. The drive is silent and great value for money. No cables come with this unit so if you do not have a new build and are purchasing this to add in an extra drive as opposed to replacing an old one do make sure you purchase the data cable and ensure that you have the power source cable as well or if you have a serial like mine which has four sockets in it, make sure one of the is free. So what can go wrong? Well for one thing since it is an unformatted drive, when you install it your computer will not show it on the "My computer" window in windows 7. You need to format the drive to NTFS (windows 7) and then it will show up. Partition the drive if you would like to and it should work well. Don't go returning the unit to Amazon as faulty as the next one will do exactly the same thing. (I didn't know this and looked at a video from newegg and it mentions this issue on new hard drives) Other than that its good reliable and cheerfully cheap. I have never installed a hard drive or built a new computer from scratch, but this was one of the easiest parts to install. Make sure you install it in the right data socket on your mother board as usually the new ones come with several SATA 6 and slower ones.

This is a great drive if you buy the 1TB version - it's faster than some WD Black drives in some tests. I've bought about 6 of these drives and 2 of them have had heavy use. One of them started to fail after about 5 years use so that's fair enough. I recovered the sectors that were messed up so no harm done. It's really failing now but at least it's dying gracefully. The other drives have not had such heavy use. So get this for speed and also for the fact it is a CMR tech drive.

Arrived in reasonable time scale . Product as described . Fitted into Buffalo External USB drive casing and partitioned into 3 . Music Collection, Pictures and Video Files, Laptop complete backup. Working so far with about half the disk space used . Speed of file transfer reasonable and speed of access to the thousands of Mp3 music tracks when drive plugged into Samsung Blue Ray player usb port is quite fast . Music plays with no problems with little noise and heat from the WD drive. The original Seagate hard drive in the Buffalo external drive had lasted a few years (failed due to being knocked over ! ) so I reserve final judgement on this drive but pleased so far. As good as the Seagate drive at a budget price. If it lasts the test of time would give it 5 stars. Note this drive is not partitioned or formatted on arrival. When attached to computer use disk management utility and this will show drive as unallocated . Need to partition and format. Plenty help on internet to do this just Google it.

This is my favourite Hard Drive of all the ones I tried. It offers great speed, great reliability and all that for a great price. Firstly, Its blazing fast. It doesn't take long to boot and once it boots any folders and files open instantly. File transfers between two of these discs are fast and stable without stutters. Another amazing thing about this HDD is its longevity. I had one for two years already and It is still perfectly fine and I haven't even noticed any performance degradation. I never had any corrupted files or any other problems. One problem I have is that I only purchased a 1TB one :) I now have 2x1TB ones and they're already almost full. My advice, buy the largest capacity you are willing to pay for. Also, maybe look into an SSD as those are so much faster (I'm talking almost instant boot up) and they are becoming cheaper now. The price is amazing for such a high quality hard drive and I definitely recommend it to anyone building a computer or looking for replacements. Easy installation as with any hard drive and you should have zero problems installing an OS or any programs/files to it right away.

I actually purchased this drive from Amazon in June 2016 following the failure of a 1tb drive (non WD) that had been in my desktop computer from new in 2011 (an Acer Aspire M3970). Fortunately my data was backed up (though it wasn't the most recent back up as it turned out) and I also had access to factory restore discs as well as a good backup image of my operating system and installed programs. Price was good at the time of purchase directly from Amazon - installation was literally open the case, put the drive in and then (power lead / SATA lead) plug and play, switch on. After firing the machine up, reinstalled everything and I have not encountered any issues since. Drive is quiet, powers on, powers off, and reads and writes when I need it to so my computer is happy as am I. After initially fitting it six months or so ago I realised then that my old drive had clearly started to fail over several weeks (the noise it had been making together with occasional read/write errors were quite a clue to this really but I just didn't twig quick enough) before the five year old drive in the desktop gave up the ghost completely. I like WD drives and have not encountered any issues with them (including external storage and laptop drives). More than happy and would buy again though I now make sure I back up my data more often. Incidentally WD also provide a free version of Acronis True Image software for download that can be used with a WD drive for back up and restore purposes (the software won't work if it doesn't detect at least one WD drive) on a system).

This product is similar to the old hard drive I had; the only difference with the other being Caviar Green. This hard drive works just as well, and I am well pleased with it. I ordered this on 7/4/14 and it arrived on 10/4/14, which was a day before the estimated delivery period of 12/4/14----15/4/14. Today; the 11/4/14 I also received my Windows 7 Professional operating system so I was finally able to use this hard drive. I put my sata wire in my hard drive and the other one (it's a little bigger and has black. red and yellow wires) and put in the Windows 7 disc. Windows 7 installed in under an hour and the hard drive has 931 GB of memory free on it. The hard drive is doing good so far. Another reason that I bought this hard drive rather than the Caviar Green again was because I have recently learnt about OEMs. My Caviar Green -- which I got from my other computer whose hard drive is broken -- didn't work on this current computer I am using and I now realise that it was due to it being an OEM. There is nothing to indicate that this hard drive is an OEM either, therefore if you want a possibly non-OEM hard drive, get this one. HOWEVER, don't quote me on that, I haven't tested to see if this hard drive works on different motherboards. If you are looking for a hard drive and you are thinking of buying this one, I would suggest that you do. If this hard drive is anything like my WD Caviar Green; this hard drive won't give you any problems. It's also likely that you have read the negative reviews on this HDD, I did too but after having a Caviar Green, this Caviar Blue hard drive performs similarly well and I can't find any fault with it. Although this review is only on the first day of use, I do plan on updating this to give further information, Lord willing.

Nice small drive I use it in my security cameras

antes de cumplir el añó comenzo con ruido de daño fisico.13 meses despues de la compra lo dejò de reconocer sin haber sido movido jamas. Ahora estoy batallando para rescatar mi informacion

Venia bien embalado y protegido en una caja con soportes plásticos en los extremos, dejando el HD suspendio en el centro de la caja. El propio disco envuelto en su correspondiente plástico antiestático hermético y con una bolsa antihumedad. Lo he montado para clonar un Seagate Barracuda de 750 Gb, que con 5 años estaba mostrando sintomas de deterioro, casi pierdo los datos. El clonaje ha sido rápido en 2 particiones, la partición del SO "C" y la de respaldo del fabricante "PQSERVICE" con el sistema operativo y los drivers. La partición D me dió fallo de clonaje por deterioro del disco primitivo. Pero compiando los archivos por carpetas he recuperado todo excento un archivo. El programa usado XXClone free, muy bueno y gratis. Llevo con el Western Blue de 1TB solo 3 semanas, y de mometo va estupendamente, rápido y poco ruido. No me hada dado ningún problema.

Drive is good, proved to be fail-safe and efficient. Mine arrived from third-party seller not being entirely new (it was removed from server/nas/etc) and repacked. 1TB version is definitely more reliable. Though I can't recommend Amazon delivery as they surely throw it dozen times on the floor and it will be packed into cheap cardboard and a plastic bag, which definitely doesn't increase drive lifespan.

super et bien protéger j'ai recommander un autre du meme gabarit que j ai reçu et celui la au premier essai super il a fonctionner de la meme façon que j'avais fait pour l'autre merci a western union et a Amazon

Rs 14,999 paid, but received a defective product. It started clicking when plugged into my desktop on Day-0. It's called "click of death" when HDD has a mechanical failure. It was dead on arrival. Amazon refused to refund or replace as it does not qualify for returns. I tried explaining that the HDD is defective, but to no avail. Rs, 15,000 just gone; or so I thought. Now, went to the Western Digital Service center for warranty coverage. They said I will get it back in 7-10 days. One day full wasted travelling to the service center. After 10 days, I plan to go for holidays. It is a total mess. The product was received without any visible damage to the package. Imagine Amazon and WD colluding to get rid of defective product this way. Looking at reviews, I am not the first one to have received a defective HDD. See the video of the click of death sound. Its risky to buy non-returnable products from Amazon. Customer now has to run around, and at the en,d I will get a re-furbhished product.