WD_BLACK Western Digital 1TB WD Black Performance Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD1003FZEX

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.

I purchased this drive to replace a failing one on a relative's Windows-based system. I also used the Acronis True Image WD Edition Software, downloaded from the manufacturer's site to clone the old drive. I was half-way through the installation when I thought, "What if I were just a general consumer and not a computer geek?" In other words, what if my relative had ordered this drive and tried to replace the old one without calling me? It probably would not have gone well, as it arrives as just a drive in a box, with no documentation or hints of what to do. The documentation on the manufacturer's Web site is fair, but maybe not enough for an average person off the street. With that in mind ... The installation went very cleanly. I had a spare SATA cable handy, which I needed during the replacement, and a SATA power Y splitter, which I did not need in this case. Those items do not come with the drive: You will have to purchase those separately if you need them. You may also need to buy 4 drive screws, but I personally did not need them for this installation either. I was going to use different software to clone the failing drive, but decided to use the utility provided by the manufacturer on their Web site. I Read The Friendly Manual and it worked very efficiently. After cloning, I removed the old drive and rebooted with only the new one. Everything was fine. I did not run any extensive diagnostics, but this new drive is relatively fast and quiet with no obvious defects so far. That was just a day ago, so I will leave my rating at 5 stars for now. Other reviewers have had quality and return problems after a few months and have submitted lower ratings. Hopefully, years will go by and I won't hear about any problems. The manufacturer makes kits providing additional documentation, cables and such if you need them -- but for me this purchase was a good option.

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!

Significantly faster sequential performance than the wd blue. Very satisfied with the build quality and performance.This drive is basically an older RE series drive from wd made for consumers, has extra features the blue lacks which i suggest u check on wd's website before purchase. Packaging is horrible from cloud tail. try to buy from some other seller if possible.

This hard drive will be used to replace my source drive on an older Windows 7 computer when the older drive fails. One of the best drives you can buy, I have used WD Black drives for over 8 years now and they still haven't failed. Very dependable.

Probabilmente il secondo disco rotazionale più veloce di sempre dopo il Velociraptor (che però vanta una velocità di 10000rpm, con conseguente maggior usura e minor affidabilità), questo disco WD Black da un tera, connesso a un controller SATA II o III riesce a gestire transfer rate massicci senza mai calare in prestazioni. Scelto per la possibilità di farlo lavorare anche 24 ore no-stop (ma non illudetevi, per server e NAS servono i WD della serie RED) questo WD Black è un must-have in campo editing, video e/o musicale. Testato con AJA e Blackmagic, il WD Black 1TB riesce a sfiorare addirittura i 195 mb/sec su singolo trasferimento da 1 gb in lettura e scrittura. Meno prestane sul random write/read rispetto a uno stato solido, riesce comunque a stracciare anche un SSD per quanto riguarda la consistenza della prestazione nel tempo. Con Blackmagic, un Samsung SSD da 250gb dopo cinque passaggi vede calare la sua performance da 400 mb/sec reali a 180-200 mb/sec reali, senza MAI recuperare il gap. Questo WD Black parte a 180 e resta a 180 per ore! Mostruosamente affidabile, non troppo rumoroso (si sente, ma non da fastidio), è la scelta obbligata per i professionisti che vogliono storage consistente e prestazioni eccellenti a costi contenuti e stabilità/affidabilità quasi da server. Metterne due in raid zero significa poter disporre (anche solo su controller SATA II) di quasi 400 MB/sec di velocità reale ininterrottamente per ore. Una manna per lunghe sessioni di video editing o sound design estremo. Amazon lo spedisce in un imballo che comprende due supporti laterali in plastica che isolano il disco da potenziali urti esterni. Altamente consigliato.

[Actualización] compre otro de estos discos esta vez de Amazon México (a inicion de diciembre) y debo decir que aunque es el mismo modelo y mi opinión sobre el producto en si no cambia si estoy decepcionado de Amazon México por la mala calidad con la que empacan productos tan delicados como un HDD pues venia únicamente con hule de burbujas dentro de una caja mucho mas grande que el HDD y muchas de las burbujas estaban rotas por lo que deduzco que no se le da un buen cuidado durante el viaje Aun asi funciono bien y durante este mes no ha fallado porque espero no ocupar garantía Compré este HDD en Amazon USA en Enero. 7 meses despues sigue funcionando solido como una roca y rapido como ningun otro disco mecanico que haya tenido ... y vaya que he usado decenas de ellos!! mi disco principal es un SSD samsung, y este WD Black es usado solo para la LIBRERIA DE STEAM y carga los juegos mas rapido que mi viejo Samsung Spinpoint F3 Pros: -VELOCIDAD!!! -Calidad de construccion -empaquetado a pesar de ser OEM venia en una caja rigida muy bien protegido -supuestamente tiene garantia de 5 años no estoy seguro si aplica en mexico pero habla bien de la empresa y la calidad de sus productos contras: -si eres tacaño el precio seria un impedimento pues por esta cantidad (o hasta menos) consigues uno de 2TB en la plaza de la computacion eso si, reconstruido, recordar que se esta comprando calidad no cantidad -Capacidad... quien diria que 1TB se llenaria tan rapido jeje mi proxima compra quiza sea el de 3TB

The product is reliable. I prefer 1TB HDD to larger capacity HDD so as not too risk a large amount of files in one large HDD. I use multiple 1TB HDD with backup.