Western Digital 3TB WD Blue PC Internal Hard Drive HDD - 5400 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD30EZRZ

I bought this DISK 2 years ago and so far I've had no issues with it, is not my main hard drive since I'm using a NVME as main, but this disk runs things smooth, not the fastest compared to the NVME but gets the job done, very happy with the purchase.

To clear up some things people clearly do not understand. Are you complaining that the storage capacity isn't what is claimed? Wrong. Hard drive storage capacities have historically been rated using power of ten and your operating system reports capacity in binary which gives a lower number when you see the size reported in your OS. As has always been the case for drive storage capacity 1 MB = 1000 kilobytes, not 1024 kilobytes. 1 GB = 1000 MB, not 1024 MB. 1 TB = 1000 GB, not 1024 GB. 2 TB = 2000 GB, not 2048 GB and so on. Example, in the case of a 1 TB drive you will see a reported capacity of ~931 GB in your OS. A 4 TB drive will report a capacity of about 3.63 TB but if you look at details you will see that means typically about 4,000,768,323,584 bytes. There's your 4TB drive. Reported capacity can depend on your OS, partitioning and formatting. Important to remember this and claiming you didn't get the capacity you paid for isn't going to negate the facts. This is how it's been and is how ALL drive manufacturers rate their capacities, every one of them.OEM hard drives are very, very commonly sold to the public and have been for a very long time. They don't come in a box with retail packaging and they come as DRIVE ONLY, no screws, no data cable, no power connector and no instructions. These days they tend to come in plain brown boxes but they use to just come in only the anti-static bag and you might get it wrapped up in some bubble wrap if you were lucky and if really lucky it was packed so it didn't bang around in the box or sit in a vulnerable corner. This has been going on as long as the 30+ years I've been in the game. OEM DOES NOT MEAN YOU DON'T GET A WARRANTY! It MIGHT if the serial number of the drive you received is one from a batch or group that was supposed to actually go to a specific OEM builder and that batch made its way elsewhere somehow. Something like a "mistake", theft or that OEM dumping them back into the product chain improperly. Check your drive when you get it by checking warranty status of your serial number on the manufacturer's site. If it says no warranty (because it was intended to be the burden of the OEM that batch, group, lot was meant for) then return it to Amazon and be very specific as to why.When you buy computer hardware and you are just a consumer without access to certain knowledge and parts you may find some items like a simple hard drive install to be more of a challenge than you thought. You need to know beforehand if you need screws (some cases use screw-less hard drive retention, most don't), a data cable (SATA is the current common standard in use for PCs) and a SATA power cable or extension. Again, you get only a bare, antistat bagged drive when you purchase an OEM drive and unless it states that it's a retail drive or shows a retail box then it's going to be a bare OEM drive most likely.

EDIT:I was disappointed and quite frankly upset when I learned more about this drive after purchase.However, it performs pretty well and I can trust it now that I've owned it for a long time. No errors or problems for several years.It outperforms my budget Samsung HDD drive which had less than 100HRs before throwing errors. This WD has thousands of hours with no issues. That's impressive.To be honest I love the drive but I am still upset it is just a rebranded green drive...whateverOriginal:ITS A GREEN DRIVE NOT BLUE(okay the label is blue and it is as advertised but if you bought WD HDDs before you know what that means)History:WD made cheap and bad green 3.5" drives 5400RPM and in efforts to boost sales they got their label changed to blue and discontinued the use of green labels #marketting SOB'sWell anyways, kinda expected that for $99 that I paid. This goes into the PS4 3.5" adapter so not a big deal if it fails.Before the facts, there is GOOD NEWS and it's listed at the bottom and the drive does work fine right now but 3 stars because I'm worried ok, it makes noises (probably normal noises), and it is really a cheap green drive so that worries me too.The current facts:It vibrates, it makes old and somewhat loud pc like noise (head movement) when playing games or when not playing games but transferring more than one file at same time. (downloading 2 or 3 games at once) If it is doing multi file transfer but one after another instead of all at once, then the head doesn't move much so no noise can be heard.The intensity of the noise is no louder than old drives of the 90s so I'm only half worried, as this may be the actual design of this drive.It gets warm almost too warm but not toasty. (granted it could use better ventilation and it is sitting in the adapter thing above a warm ps4)There was one BIG issue (which may have been the ps4 adapters fault) where I lost all data on the 3rd day. It would turn on and spin but ps4 could not recognize it or be able to initialize it (ps4s version of formatting)The fix was to use pc and 3rd party free-ware to rebuid the MBR. Guess something went wrong with ps4. Afterward once MBR was rebuilt it still only worked after I initialized (ps4s version of formatting) the whole drive and started resh again and that was a BIG improvement.2 weeks and 1.3 TB later it is doing ok.I still don't know what went wrong that dayTHE GOOD NEWS ( best for last eh?)No surface errors found, tested this right out the package and after I had ps4 screw up the hdd MBR (assuming it was PS4 that did it, or the adapter)Guess i'll keep track of it and re-review if i can once it screws up again and I'll do SMART diagnostics to make sure the drive is not at fault