WD 1 TB Performance Hard Drive - Black

This is a very good drive indeed, and is the best performing of the regular WD drive line. The 'Blue' series drives are the standard good drives for everyday use. (These are the only ones that come in both SATA 6 Gb/s and the older PATA 100 MB/s connection styles; all others are only SATA). The max. capacity for these is 1 TB. The 'Green' drives are focused on low energy consumption and therefore have lowest spin ratings (making them slower) but keep very cool & quiet. These go all the way up to 6 TB. The 'Purple' are designed for low spin use with ATA streaming & AllFrame technology designed with surveillance video footage recording in mind. These go up to 4 TB. The 'Red' series drives are designed for RAID array systems. These go all the way up to 6 TB. The 'Black' series are designed for the best performance for gamers and graphic artists with fast spin-rates, Vibration Control Technology (VCT) and Corruption Protection Technology (CPT) to prevent data loss in the case of power failure to the unit. These go up to 4 TB. The only drive that WD make faster and better than the Black series is the VelociRapter series with the fastest spin cycles and it's own custom vibration and cooling bracket. These are more triple the price on a GB-by-GB cost ratio. See Western Digital Velociraptor - 1TB Desktop SATA Hard Drive - OEM These "Black" drives are really the best of the regular series for high performance computing. I have mine installed as a bootable Windows OS main HDD, and it outperforms the previous drive, even though it was only a 200 GB drive. You'd think for so little space, verses a 1 TB drive, that the 200 GB drive would be faster as there's so much less space to have to scan. But the WD Black is as good with five times the capacity. It's very quiet and performs quickly with no read/write errors upon diagnostic scan tests. The packaging was satisfactory (not an original fancy box). It was in an anti-static bag, with plastic spacers on each end, that was in turn in a cardboard box that was then placed in another cardboard box with filler. One little tip: If your are replacing an old HDD that was MBR format, and intend to clone it to this drive, then format this new drive to MBR as well, not GPT (even though the latter is a better system) to prevent problems in the cloning. The 5 year warranty is a real bonus as well. Just go to the WD website and register the drive. Such a long warranty (the longest WD offer for a product; others being 2 or 3 years only) shows that they've really put a lot into making these units in a high quality manner giving peace-of-mind for your data. I would recommend these drives to anyone looking for the best drive, that's affordable, for high performance computing.

A really superb drive. I have the 1TB version. After 5 years of heavy use the drive is still in perfect working order. Not a sector out of place. The drive can hit nearly 200MB/s and that is plenty fast for me to write audio to it in real time in my DAW. It's CMR which helps. The later WD Blacks get mixed reviews - they are not all made equal, but this is a superstar and I'm confident to keep on using it in another system when I pull it to upgrade all my drives in this DAW.

Bought to replace WD hard drive in my late 2010 21.5" imac. There are a couple of modifications you have to do for it to work ok in a Mac but pretty straight forward. Am grateful for the advice given by another reviewer, "Pentax", who told me what to do. For the 2010 iMac you firstly have to shave off the locator tab on the Mac's hard drive temp sensor plug as there is no slot to take it on the new drive. I did it carefully with a craft knife. Next, I swapped the wires round on this plug so the darker wire was at the top and the lighter one below. These just pushed out of the plug ok with the thick end of a needle and then easily inserted back into the plug the opposite way round. If you don't do this your cooling fans will go nuts apparently. The drive was then good to go and installed fine. There is advice on this at: http://blog.macsales.com/19617-diagnosing-2009-2010-imac-fan-speed-issues-after-upgrading-the-main-hard-drive. Some bloggers are saying that when you do this the fans may not work properly and thus will shorten the life of the drive but all seems fine and there is a widget you can download to monitor the temp etc.. called istat. So, well pleased and while some reviews say that the drive is noisy, mine isn't at all.

These drives receive almost universally positive reviews, and my experience is no different. I'm using this as a games drive and it has given me many hours of happy gaming with zero issues. Installation is simple, using the standard 4 screw arrangement or whatever HDD mounting brackets may exist in your case. Plug in the SATA cable and it's ready to go. This replaced an old 5400rpm drive, and there is a noticeable performance improvement even though I have it connected to a SATA2 motherboard and can't experience the drive at full transfer speed (I'll upgrade eventually). Western Digital have a great reputation for reliability and a decent warranty so I'm expecting this drive to last for many years. I'll probably buy a couple more at some point, maybe for a RAID setup, or perhaps just to increase overall capacity.

When this arrived it was very well packaged with the usual Amazon box within a box style of packaging. The unit itself was sealed within an anti static bag and protected securely via two card grips, floating it centrally within its box. It came with no paperwork at all, no connections or retail packaging, just a plain brown box which I have to admit, confused me initially. It is not silent as when it is in use it does whine as the disc spins but this isn't an annoying sound, just a quiet spinning whine ( I use the term whine as I cannot think of another to describe the sound). It makes no noise when it isn't saving or loading. My only problem with this drive is probably down to my own inexperience. After searching online for a quite a while trying to find non existent drivers, I worked out why the hard drive was not showing up in Windows despite clearly being there in the Bios. The solution was very simple, all I had to do was format the hard drive and Windows walks you through this process very easily. I daresay this is a novice mistake and one I will not repeat but I mention it here in an effort to help other novice builders avoid the same issue. I'm happy with my purchase and would buy again as the product works very well. As this was my first build I would have preferred to have received some form of documentation or an image confirming which way is up at least. For the lack of any basic paperwork or fittings this product, although in my opinion excellent, loses a star from my review.

Brought one of these to replace a Barracuda 1TB that failed. I've had it for 2 months now and its a fantastic little bit of kit. The Delivery was fast, arriving in 2 days. The product it self was well secured and protected in the boxing, An issue i've had ordering from other stores online. If you are debating if you want to Order a Blue or Black series, Id recommend paying that little bit extra for the Black. It comes with an extended warranty (5 years). Also from what i've read the black also has very slight performance gains, as well as better product testing, Making it more reliable. Making the Black a better all rounder for just about everything. I've lost 3 1TB harddrives just after they have went past the warranty in the last 2 years, So having this warranty will be a nice safety net !

The product itself is great and clearly very well built as it survived being dropped through the letter box by royal mail in nothing but a small cardboard sleeve and popped bubble wrap. I can't put all the blame on amazon for the bad packaging. The item had clearly been checked on route and opened, probably because of the size, weight and the fact it was packed with a giant bag of silica gel which I can only assume looked like drugs on an Xray. Despite it being opened, checked for drugs and dropped 4 foot from a letterbox it has been in my pc working perfectly for the past few days and hopefully a few more to come. Ps. Write speed is a little slow for a 7200rpm drive.

To my horror, I had recently switched on my desktop PC, to find that one of my two hard drives had an error - and would not load! Thankfully I had saved all my data on a "slave" drive. My desktop PC is configured in RAID 0, so effectively two hard drives act as one, but the speed performance is fantastic. I therefore wanted two hard drives of the same type. I was a little unsure if this particular type would be suitable for a RAID environment, but I am pleased to say that once I had them installed, they are working a treat. I particularly like the fact that these drives come with a 5 year guarantee. So far, so good and so I would highly recommend them.

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.

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