Western Digital 1TB WD Blue Mobile Hard Drive HDD - 5400 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 128 MB Cache, 2.5" - WD10SPZX

I like Western Digital. I have used their drives for years and have had no issues. This one is for my new desktop and installed quickly.

This Western Digital hard drive truly stands out as an excellent product, providing outstanding value that perfectly matches its price point. The ease of installation was remarkable; it was a truly fantastic purchase, as the entire process was incredibly straightforward and user-friendly. Furthermore, the price is exceptionally competitive and hard to beat, solidifying its position as an outstanding choice for anyone seeking a dependable and affordable storage solution to meet their computer's needs. I wholeheartedly recommend this hard drive; it's an excellent option.

They were sealed in their package and new. Being WD I'm sure they'll be great otherwise. These are for replacement system drives as I always keep the operating system on one drive and have a seperate storage drive for everything we want to keep long term. That helps protect important data better. If a drive is going to go down, most usually it is the one that is working all the time....the system drive. If you just back that up every so often and don't store important stuff there, it's a hassle but not a total catastrophe. I just had to hijack a spare out of my system for my son's computer as his system drive finally went south. So now I have these as the ones we are working on now have alot of age on them- and when they throw a snit fit...no problem...we'll just throw the backups on these and we'll be back running again. I always implicity trust Western Digital for solid, durable hard drives....all the time. All my really important drives here are, in fact, WD drives. Stability and quality matters when you're talking about info you want to keep a lifetime.

After upgrading my desktop PC with the Western Digital 1TB WD Blue internal hard drive, I’ve noticed a significant improvement in both performance and reliability. Installation was straightforward, and the drive was up and running within minutes, which is a big plus for someone who isn’t very tech-savvy. Performance: The 7200 RPM speed and the 64 MB cache make this hard drive quite responsive. I primarily use my PC for office applications and browsing the web, and I must say, the drive handles these tasks effortlessly without any lag. Durability: The no-touch ramp load technology that Western Digital boasts about really seems to make a difference. I’ve had to relocate my PC a couple of times since the installation, and it's comforting to know that the drive is designed to withstand such moves without risking damage to the drive’s recording head or media. Compatibility: I was initially concerned about compatibility issues, but the hard drive worked seamlessly with my Windows 10 system. It’s reassuring to know that this drive has been tested across a multitude of systems and platforms. Energy Efficiency: Another feature that stands out is the advanced power management. It's good to see that my PC isn’t using excessive power, which should help with electricity costs in the long run. Conclusion: If you're looking for a reliable hard drive that offers good performance and energy efficiency, the Western Digital 1TB WD Blue is an excellent choice. It’s suited for anyone who needs a dependable storage solution without the complications of a difficult setup or compatibility issues. Highly recommended!

[ SEE UPDATE BELOW ] SUMMARY: (i) good performance as an external USB drive; (ii) internal temperature reaches the 95-105F range after several hours of use. REVIEW There are more than enough reviews of this disk as an internal drive. My interest, however, was to use it as an _external USB drive_, and that is what this review focuses on. The 3.5" WD Blue 1TB hard disk drive (WDC WD10EZEX-08WN4A0), has attractive properties for storage purposes: a formatted capacity of ~954 GiB out of its nominal 976 GiB --usually described by manufacturers as 1000 GB--, a 7200 rpm rotation rate, a 64 MB cache, a SATA III interface with a 6GB/s speed, and S.M.A.R.T. monitoring. It is not the top of the line of Western Digital SATAs, at least in terms of the length of their limited warranty (3 years for the WD Blue versus 5 years for the Black, although there are claims of not too different benchmarks), but because of its relatively low price it has a 'drive value' index similar to the top non-SSDs. This makes the WD Blue 1TB a good choice as an external USB drive for the storage of media or data, in particular incremental backups (especially when disk writes caching is enabled), since top performance values are unrealistic for serving as a guide for external USB devices, where performance is primarily dictated by the USB specs and manufacturing compliance. The figure below shows results of a free benchmark app in wide use, Crystal DiskMark, for the Blue 1TB used as an external USB-3 storage drive (left table) and --to provide some perspective to these values-- for an internal SSD with a good performance as a system drive (right table) -- the latter, which was partitioned into two logical drives, has a capacity of 512 GB, and both devices are quite comparable in the fraction of used capacity, ca. 40%, which is important since performance declines as a drive gets full. The first line in both tables are the averages of sequential 5 reads and 5 writes with multiple queues and threads for a relatively large data block; this measures how quickly large files (e.g., backups or multimedia) can be read from or written to the drive. The second line are the averages of random 5 reads and 5 writes with multiple queues and threads for a small block; this measures how quickly many small files (e.g., when copying large app folders or loading programs during operating system startup) can be read from or written to the drive. The third and fourth lines mirror the above two but using only a single queue and thread. The lower performance of the Blue 1TB is only due in part to USB transfer issues; published data indicate that, if used as an internal drive, the values in the left table would have increased by less than two fold. Nevertheless, its performance is quite appropriate for external storage. I mounted the WD Blue 1TB vertically in a dual-bay USB3 docking station, and it is typically quiet but for some clicks when it starts spinning. A negative finding is its temperature after many hours of use: compared with a 2.5" WD Blue 500GB disk that warms up to about 24C (75F) in the second bay of the open docking station, the Blue 1TB gets hotter in the range of 35-40C. Temperature is often claimed to affect drive reliability (but see "Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population" by Pinheiro and co-workers, 2007), so I put close to the station a small USB fan with an adjustable speed set to a low value to keep it quiet, which brings the Blue 1TB temperature back to the below-30C range. UPDATE June 2017 Used in a new Lenovo E560 has worked extremely well over the last 6 months. The only issue has been that Windows (7SP1 Pro 64x) failed to recognized the drive as ready in 2 or 3 occasions only, and offered to format it; so far, this has been solved simply by rebooting the laptop. (This is a known but rare quirk of the OS, usually --but not always-- fixed by running the command sfc/scannow as an administrator in the DOS box.)

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I have have been using WD external storage drive which easily swayed me to choose it for internal storage as well. The performance is good and optimal read/write operation speed

Before installing and replacing my old hard drive with this one, I ran some tests. The hard drive is truly new and in perfect condition, no cosmetic and no internal damage was pressent when it came. I ran a speed test and it was quite a good speed for a hard drive. The noise level is very low, the hard drive can be very slightly heard when it is on heavy load. I am very happy with this product since no faults have occurred so far and the quality it came in. I did try to register the warranty for this product on Western Digital official website but it said that the product was already registered but I wouldn't worry about that because I believe it's due to the fact that Amazon takes care of any problems relating the warranty. I do recommend to buy this hard drive.

fais le travail

Tot zover (eergisteren in een oude laptop geinstalleerd) kan ik zeggen dat dit een goed werkende harde schijf is, die prima te installeren is. Oude drive eruit halen, de Western Digital Wd10Spzx Mobile er in steken, in het geval van de laptop waar ik de drive in installeerde, het ingebouwde drive-frame terug klikken en met vier schroefjes aan de drive bevestigen zodat er geen speling meer is (want deze drive is iets dunner dan de oude drive), bodemplaat van de laptop terug plaatsen, en klaar.