This drive is reasonably fast for the price and is much, much quieter than the supposed "Green" 1 tb hard drive I had before

still...a good drive..

Inspected the hard drive for damage and internal errors

I have no complaints about this hard drive, just looking to get an SSD as well

I have a late 2006 iMac and this hard drive is totally compatible and runs perfectly on it

and it's a very quiet drive even though my rig is table top only 18" from me

That means it was too late to return it by the time I realized the drive is garbage

It is the cheapest hard drive that will get the job done as a system drive and still have some storage space to work with

We ordered the same Western Digital Caviar Blue hard drive as the original since our old drive has been quite reliable over the past 4 years

very good product would buy again, and recommend to any one looking for a good hard drive

I'd be ready with a dependable name brand drive in the event that happened

So look if you want a good drive I highly suggest fast ship class A the product you purchase

Ideal size, speed and choice for hard drives to be raided together for video work such as Final Cut Pro

My go-to Hard Drive when building desktop computers

Decent drive, but only lasted about 3 years which is to be expected for a lower-end Seagate model.

I did download and ran Onyx (free and a program you should have) and the hard drive looks good

great drive and had no problems with the install

The hard drive works great for my home security DVR system

I actually ended up unplugging it towards the end!Anyway, this drive is fast and silent

I used this to replace a hard drive in a teacher computer after it had been dropped.

Replaced a hard drive in a Windows 7 HP computer

Replacement was a bit of a chore, but the drive has worked well since the install

This is a very good drive

I must say that it has been more durable than a Seagate hard drive which lasted about 1 month

Excellent performance of this hard drive in our computer

Highly recommend WD drives, I have several external back up drives and now an internal drive in my desktop.

Installation was easy, the drive is quiet, and it does not produce excessive heat.

Used this in a new build and it did what a hard drive does right out of the box.

Nice hard drive

This hard drive scores a 5.9 out of 7.9 on windows performance, not as fast as a SSD but for the price it is very good.

Within a couple months I was getting SMART notifications that the drive was bad and should be replaced asap

One other note - like other amazon bare drives, the packaging is completely inadequate to protect the drive from the rigors of shipping

I mounted it inside an old hard drive bracket from an old computer.

so this drive runs significantly hotter than the Hitachi

Needed a simple cheap hard drive for my

This is a great hard drive

If you want a significant performance increase from your HDD you'll have to get a Solid State drive (or veloceraptor - though that wouldn't provide as much of an improvement and it would create so much more heat) or a RAID setup

This has been a good hard drive for me for going on 2 years now

received on time and the hard drive is working great, thank you Amazoon

received on time and the hard drive is working great, thank you Amazoon

Nice hard drive and very quiet

Googled changing a hard drive on the IMac and found all kinds of help on the web.

I have not had any trouble with this hard drive.

Western Digital is one of, if not the best, hard drives on the market

It's neither the fastest hard drive nor is it the biggest.

It's able to pass data rates that slower drives can't.

Bought this to replace a worn out hard drive in my computer

this drive is whisper quiet, so fast

This is usually my "Go To" hard drive when im building PC's

Anyway this hard drive has been good so far, and has worked flawlessly

I bought this hard drive to put in my security system for recording video and it works great, good buy

I like this hard drive

My favorite hard drive by far

This happened to be when hard drive prices had jumped due to flooding overseas, so I chose this Western Digital "Blue" 500gb drive for his upgrade as it fit his budget

I bought this to replace a dying Seagate hard drive (R.I.P 2008-2013, you put up a good fight)

5200rpm drives will be significantly quieter, if you're willing to sacrifice some performance

Good hard drive

easy to install and fits like the original hard drive

Purchased to replace the hard drive in my Dell Inspiron laptop.

Good deal, good drive.

Great hard drive for the money

Works fine, just a good solid economical SATA drive.

I reinstalled Windows 10 Pro back on this hard drive with the help of a Microsoft Technician.

This hard drive is the best mid-range hard drives out there

Display card, monitor, then hard drive

I am very pleased and am using this hard drive to do this review

Then I got a warning that the drive was flawed and about to crash and to save my data.

It is a better drive than the one it replaced as it is faster and more reliable.

Western Digital have long been a reliable hard drive for a reasonable price.

This drive was easy to install, and works fine

This drive was easy to install, and works fine

I love Western Digital hard drives

If you are looking for a 7200 RPM magnetic disk-drive this is an affordable and effective drive

Keep in mind, newer iMacs require a thermal sensor inside the hard drive instead of the one that sticks to the outside of the drive to read the temps

Hard drive isn't a supper fast hard

Great drive for the $.

One was for my own laptop, which had a 5400 rpm hard drive in it.

Good budget hard drive that works as expected

he thanks me for picking such a great hard drive

This is a great hard drive for any computer that needs a new or a secondary hard drive

Good Drive

This hard drive runs quiet and cool

Quick and easy replacement of failing hard drive

You can just take the old hard drive out and plug the new hard drive in with the same SATA plugs, boot up your system, and proceed to install your OS(Operating System)

Personally, I don't mind installing windows on this hard drive

This is a good Hard drive for people who are not very picky

So further testing and analysis is needed to determine whether -or- not I received a defective drive

Standard hard drive that performs as expected

Been thru a lot of hard drives and it is hard to beat the western digitial line

I never hear the hard drive itself, and the temperature sits at 36 at heavy use, 34 at idle

Comes with nothing but the hard drive wrapped in an antistatic bag and wedged with plastic supports inside a sturdy cardboard box

If one of the drives did not fail, this would have been a 5 star hard drive.

I have had no problems with this 500 GB hard drive.

Great drive to replace the 80 could GB drive so that I had enough space to partition as necessary or create a large system with many virtual machines.

This drive is the operating system support, have not had any issues with the computer it was installed in.

Bought as a replacement for a dead hard drive

Originally was going to use this for my new computer build but ended up using it as a converted external hard drive instead

This hard drive is a wonderful work horse for the standard home computer

All drives saw moderate to heavy usage, but all 3 failed within 2 yrs

Great hard drive, works beautifully.

This is an awesome hard Drive and i would recommend this to anyone who needs more space on their computers or just need a new hard drive.

I bought this hard drive on Feburary 7th, 2012

Even though I was unable to use this hard drive because it was the wrong

and I hope this is helpful for anyone looking for Hard Drive options

It's worth its price for its large storage capacity, even though it's not a Tera Byte Size Hard Disk Drive, for a home user such as I, it's more than enough for OS and Storage needs until I could afford to upgrade to a Solid State Drive.

I like Western Digital, they seem to make pretty good drives.

but, the fact that it works is so important for hard drives these days, I only took one off

Bought this hard drive 12/05/2012Died beyond repair on 06/07/2013!!After 18 years this is the first hard drive I bought that wentbad in such a short time period, and it was new!!Will not return because too much data on it.$60.00 just thrown away

I set it up as a function back up drive (installed OS - in case of failure of the hard drive in my system - I can just pop this in and get back running with minimal down time ), as well as a back up with a few partitions

This drive would be a nightmare for the inexperienced, hence 4 stars

It is mostly a gamming system, but I couldn't really justify a solid state drive yet just for games

Excellent drive.

good drive

Bought this 500 GB hard drive to replace a smaller hard drive in my PC.

A hard drive is very sensative

Western Digital is my preferred choice for replacement hard drives.

Good hard drive.

In my 15 years of business I have seen a few hard drive companies come and go, rise and fall

Needed a semi-cheap hard drive for a sort of tight gaming budget and this fit for the amount of space I was receiving

The 500GB hard drive works as I expected (no complaints).

I installed the hard drive in my new Night Owl DVR recorder, installlation was quick and easy

I know these things happen to hard drives, and I am completely backed up, but a four-month lifespan is a disappointment.

This hard drive is currently priced at $39.99, a 1 TB is $60.80, and a 1.5TB is $59.99.

One tough hard drive

After i realized it was only 465GB, i then realized the the hard drive had ZERO Available space

Replaced hard drive on my Compac and download window 7 starter cd

The hard drive works like new.

The hard drive works great, no issues

Is the only hard drive that I buy

Now between the 2 Hard drives in my

and I needed a responsive drive

a solid drive at a good price

Apart from the untimely demise of the first drive (after ~4 years) it is a good fast hard drive.

I am very comfortable with the Western Digital brand (my PC has two SATA Western Digital hard drives and I have purchased others as well) so when I decided to increase the size of the #2 drive I naturally leaned toward WD

The hard drive is a direct replacement for a faulty drive that was in a HP computer

I built a pc for the 1st time and i chose this hard drive and its fast

Its very nice to know that now, my PC is not going to run out of hard drive space

In the end, this was simply the cheapest hard drive the would fulfill my needs.

If you are looking for a great all around basic hard drive, then this is for you

Hard drives seem like commodities these days

I like the hard drive for edit video is very fast and very good conection, many people that wnt this dick can buy this

I purchased this hard drive(500 GB) for the DVR for my surveillance camera and after set up, thinking that it was recording, NOTHING.

Replaced the SEAGATE hard drive on my HP m9450f after 4 years

A good brand high quality drive for an affordable price.

I bought this drive earlier this month and glad that I did

I have been an IT Professional for over 25 years and I have found that Western Digital drives are the most reliable.

Tried new/bad drive in another system-failed in same way

Hard drives are like automobiles

because Apple has some proprietary code on hard drives for my machine, this doesn't have it

It's fast and quiet just what you want a hard drive to be.

These are good drives that do the job their intended to do.

It's hard to rate a hard drive until it breaks

i would recommend this hard drive!

Hard drive bit the dust on my

ordered 2 drives, they arrived undamaged together, tried to format, one worked, one was d.o.a. returned dead drive via RMA and received new, working one

had this professionally installed into my computer because our old hard drive died

This Hard Drive is one of the most reliable and is a very good deal!

Purchased this hard drive in June for our inventory to repair computers at our shop...

Excellent hard drive, works perfectly, came in on time, well packaged

Dropped it into a Sabrent External Twin Drive Unit and gives you an extra hard drive and works well off USB even though the HD is a SATA111

Love this hard drive

The hard drive is fast (for the price) and reliable

What I mean is, as long as it is running smoothly, it is a good hard drive (in general)

Good hard drive.

This hard drive is fast

I have had to return several hard drives shipped from amazon in this inferior packaging

Took about 5 hours to install Windows 7 and any major thing the requires the hard drive freezes up the system

This hard drive began making strange whine and chirping noises after about a year and a half of operation.

That's not a terrible lifespan for a hard drive, is it?This one is faster, larger and quieter than my last one

good drive had to replace a refurbished one in my mothers pc do to a Trojan virus... there is a reason I am in my 20s and do not and will not have a face book account ... ever

Was a difficult period after my hard drive (Smart Event

I would highly recommend this piece of hardware, for Western Digital makes one fine hard drive.

Also if your not careful or take the extreme precautions into installing these things it will harm the drive

To me, the quality of a hard drive is directly related to its longevity which is yet to be determined.

The hard drive was very easy to install - just make sure you save the screws from your old hard drive to install it since it does not come with any.

I originally purchased this drive as a backup for my 320gb WD hard drive in case the drive failed

To anyone who just needs a fair about of hard drive for a very reasonable price, this is a good one.

This is a great drive for the price, I bought mine used I think

Luckily, I had everything backed up, and this drive was my savior

sorta slow but is good enough as a secondary hard drive.

I used this hard drive for a DVR and it worked flawlessly

This is a good sturdy hard drive, it's been in my pc for 2 years and not any problems in all this time

I like this WD drive because it has been reliable, runs cooler than other drives, and is a very good value for the price.

That is just too short of a time for a hard drive to last.

Replaced a failed Seagate drive

great hard drive

the drive became unstable

Very nice hard drive and just what I needed for my dvr.

New hard drive was very easy to install and has not given any problems.

, voila!If you're looking for a replacement hard drive, or an additional drive, WesternDigital has a great track record with their Blue series

Hard Drive (HINT

Purchased this drive as a hot swap replacement drive for my home computer and it worked great right out of the box.

A really nice, well built and tough hard drive.

back up and running with in 20 min i recommend these to any one who needs a good hard drive they don't have to worry about it crashing for a few yearsEDIT JULY 19 2013just a few days of being a year since i ordered this hard drive and it is still running just as strong and as quite as the day i put it in

Works as expected with just plugging it into the computer, installed Windows XP Media Center 2005.The hard drive comes with a 3 Year Warranty, I've only had to go though Western Digital's warranty once (Not with this drive), and they were very good about it, very fast turn around time in the event of a drive failure

I bought 2 hard drives.

I do know a thing or two about these hard drives, though, and I concur with the majority vote in the reviews here

This drive is a waste of money

I backed up my desk top internal hard drive on this new drive because I thought the original drive was getting ready to fail

I hoped that it was the hard drive, so I bought this to tell

I used this hard drive before and i like it very much,

Good brand, good hard drive.

Recommend highly, miles ahead of Samsung drive that crashed after four short years of use, old drive was always noisy and started to fail on boot.

Unless you're an intense gamer, which you won't be with a budget pc, this hard drive is absolutely fine

Nice easy drive for every day use in a typical home computer which doesn't rely heavily on high hard drive performance.

I cloned my c: drive with absolutely no problems and this drive is fast

Works as well as a hard drive should.

The drive is fast enough to keep up with the video feeds and is not very noisy when in use

No better drive!

I wanted a portable hard drive but received this instead.

I use this hard drive with Linux Mint 13 "Maya" installed

Can't ask for much more than that in a hard drive!I picked up the second one to install Linux.

I will over come this, but now my one week resolution to replace a bad drive will take two weeks.

This SATA drive is a good hard drive for the money.

Nice WD drive.

If this were someone buying a second hard drive for a new machine, they would have to go out and buy a cable go along with it.

It was about time for a new hard drive in my pc, this one was my choice

Great hard drive, using it in an office setting for a virtual machine

The correct hard drive; WD5000BEVT; and NOT The same one for Desktop!Duh

Its a hard drive

They provided the utility that transferred everything from my failing drive to this one

Now, Western Digital holds the best drive, as Maxtor once did

The drive is fast and quiet as Western Digital promised, in their product specification

To some people, this drive might be quiet, and if you've got a couple loud fans in your case you'll probably agree

The hard drives are not worth it

Love this hard drive

Therefore, against the better judgement of myself, the professional, my customers demand the low grade hard drives as it is half price of the more reliable

In addition, I had a problem some years ago with a WD external hard drive that was quickly taken care of under warranty by WD's customer service.

Great replacment hard drive used in the Channel Master CM-7000PAL DVRits works right out the box, plug in and turn on,

it's a good, reliable, quiet hard drive that will serve most people perfectly, unless you're a super computer user (i.e., programmer, developer, etc.), in which I don't have to tell you that you need a more heavy duty product.

Great replacment hard drive used in the Channel Master CM-7000PAL DVRits works right out the box, plug in and turn on,

it's a good, reliable, quiet hard drive that will serve most people perfectly, unless you're a super computer user (i.e., programmer, developer, etc.), in which I don't have to tell you that you need a more heavy duty product.

I'll never know because for the past ten years, since my Maxtor died after less than a year and my daughter's did the same thing, I've had Western Digital hard drives

I have no problem with this Hard drive

[Western Digital also makes Green drives that are cooler and quieter, but supposedly not so reliable; and Black drives for gaming performance that we didn't need.

Love this hard drive

Not the fastest drive on the market, but I haven't experienced a failure yet

Pretty fast drive, took this out of a compaq computer to add storage space to an existing harddrive, and also use this to run separate windows 7

My previous hard drive lasted almost 10

The hard drives are not worth it

Amazon replaced it with a new drive and I returned the bad drive

I'm using this HDD as my main drive for Windows 8 64-bit... works fast, zero noise, cool at touch and low price

What more can you say about a hard drive

Overall, a quiet drive

The correct hard drive; WD5000BEVT; and NOT The same one for Desktop!Duh

I have never used any other Hard drive but Western Digital, and the Caviar Blue met my expectations as usual

Great hard drive, using it in an office setting for a virtual machine

However, the drive itself works great.

Great drive, came quick, but couldnt use because my VIA motherboard was not compatible with it

This Western Digital Hard drive is a replacement for my main drive.

This SATA drive is a good hard drive for the money.

Tried about everything check desk won't work because drive is unreadable, formatting won't

I wanted a portable hard drive but received this instead.

Replaced a dead drive perfectly.

The drive arrived in good time and worked as expected

Great performance, great price, and was perfect for when I needed a fresh drive on a whim.

What more can you say?Awesome for my first computer build, or anyone that just wants a hard drive.

This hard drive model failed after about one month of use

Works as well as a hard drive should.

You know, they just don't make hard drives like they use to

I know this hard drive will last much longer than the original Seagate!

Nice easy drive for every day use in a typical home computer which doesn't rely heavily on high hard drive performance.

arrive on time, the hard drive does not work well

This is a nice, cool-running drive which is virtually silent

Unless you're an intense gamer, which you won't be with a budget pc, this hard drive is absolutely fine

I PURCHASED THIS HARD DRIVE TO

Recommend highly, miles ahead of Samsung drive that crashed after four short years of use, old drive was always noisy and started to fail on boot.

Good brand, good hard drive.

I mean its a typical hard drive so far, it works quickly and quietly.

The drive would fail a format, or would format and then disconnect, reconnect and not be formatted after

I used this hard drive before and i like it very much,

I backed up my desk top internal hard drive on this new drive because I thought the original drive was getting ready to fail

I would recommend this brand and model for those in need of a hard drive for their pc

The best hard drive there is, period

Hard drive was shipped quickly and performed well

Bought 2 and 4 months later and 1 drive is failing.

back up and running with in 20 min i recommend these to any one who needs a good hard drive they don't have to worry about it crashing for a few yearsEDIT JULY 19 2013just a few days of being a year since i ordered this hard drive and it is still running just as strong and as quite as the day i put it in

This drive was easy to install and is working perfectly so far.

Amazing Drive

A really nice, well built and tough hard drive.

Desktop Hard Drive an a 2.5 500 GB laptop HD all for extra storage space

I used this as a second hard drive in an Xp computer

If you dont need a super high-speed hard drive then these are excellent models.

This drive is a nice improvement over my 350 Gb stock drive

New hard drive was very easy to install and has not given any problems.

Very nice hard drive and just what I needed for my dvr.

great hard drive

I would recommend this drive to anyone

This drive had a slight vibration to it from day one

Great drive for the price

This is a good sturdy hard drive, it's been in my pc for 2 years and not any problems in all this time

sorta slow but is good enough as a secondary hard drive.

I used this hard drive for a DVR and it worked flawlessly

Western digital makes some of the best hard drives around.

The hard drive was very easy to install - just make sure you save the screws from your old hard drive to install it since it does not come with any.

RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5 drive which compliments this drive perfectly,on the new 6Gb/

I would highly recommend this piece of hardware, for Western Digital makes one fine hard drive.

Was a difficult period after my hard drive (Smart Event

I recently replaced a failed Seagate hard drive with this hard drive.

Replacing the hard drive on my 2006 iMac would have been a nightmare if not for this product.

Good hard drive.

What I mean is, as long as it is running smoothly, it is a good hard drive (in general)

This hard drive is fast

The hard drive is fast (for the price) and reliable

Excellent hard drive, works perfectly, came in on time, well packaged

Dropped it into a Sabrent External Twin Drive Unit and gives you an extra hard drive and works well off USB even though the HD is a SATA111

Love this hard drive

I am replacing the failed drive with the same model

ordered 2 drives, they arrived undamaged together, tried to format, one worked, one was d.o.a. returned dead drive via RMA and received new, working one

This is my main hard drive and it's been working very well.

i would recommend this hard drive!

The WD Caviar Blue drives have been very reliable and quite fast, so make a good choice

I still run XP at home and the smaller hard drive works better.

It is hard to find a better drive of this capacity at this price

Well, what do you say, its just an internal hard drive.

NIGHT.TIME WILL TELL HOW DURABLE THIS DRIVE IS

Perfect for a reliable value hard drive, still capable of fast speeds too

It would have been wonderful for amazon to let it be known that the hard drive does not come with mounting screws or a SATA cable

Hard drives are like automobiles

We have a Windows XP PC with 250GB hard drive that was getting full with photos and videos

I used this hard drive to replace a 160GB hard drive

They show that 90% of their hard drives survive 3 years, and just under 80% of their hard drives survive 4 years.

Hard drives seem like commodities these days

so all I can say is that it looks just as a hard drive should

No five stars because a hard drive is hard to love

Apart from the untimely demise of the first drive (after ~4 years) it is a good fast hard drive.

I contacted WD and they replaced the drive, but it cost me $13.00 to send the dead drive to them

The hard drive works like new.

Great drive, quiet, easier to install

Upgraded hard drive space on my pc

Drive is fast, quiet and works great.

One tough hard drive

Drive is fast, quiet and works great.

I am RMA'ing the drive, and luckily didn't lose any important data.

The 500GB hard drive works as I expected (no complaints).

mATXI've only owned it for about 2 weeks, but I haven't had any issues with it as a primary hard drive.

However, you don't really need a super fast drive for a system drive.

When I gave it to him, he said that the serial number did not match the drive they sent out

Good hard drive.

I have a small computer case and even though there is a hard drive fan it can't keep up with the heat coming off this drive.

This hard drive replace a Hitachi 500 GB SATA that had failed

The price of hard drives going to the roof, and everybody wanting a 1 TB, this was a nice find

The agent told me therewas no problem with the drives, but since they used an outside shipper, they had no control over whether the drive was damaged during shipping

Ranked as the mid performance hard drive in the Caviar family (Green, Blue, Black,), this hard drive does a good job providing good value performance and hard disk storage

I put music, and all kinds of games onto this hard drive.

I am not buying anymore hard drives via amazon as I don't use them frequently enough but when I do need them , they have to work and the past few I

The nice thing too is that you can save the old hard drive, and should you decide later to sell the laptop, you can put the old drive in it and thus save all your files with almost zero effort.

This is an awesome hard Drive and i would recommend this to anyone who needs more space on their computers or just need a new hard drive.

Great hard drive, works beautifully.

Great hard drive, works beautifully.

I used DriveWire - Universal Hard Drive Adapter and EZ Gig IV boot disk to clone my old drive onto the new drive.

My original hard drive that was installed in my tower had some issues and rather than replacing with the original my son who does this work replaced my hard drive with this one

Maxtor was the beast hard drive of all time (until Seagate bought and crushed them)

Once that was finished, I opened the CPU, pulled out the old hard drive and connected the new one.

If one of the drives did not fail, this would have been a 5 star hard drive.

This is a hard drive

This hard drive as sold is bare bones and does not include any software.

I have this drive in another build and it works flawlessly.

I used other hard drives that did in fact load

I use it with a hard drive toaster and it works great so far

The new 500GB hard drive, as stated, is "bare"

Great drive for the price

I have nothing but great drives from Western Digital.

This hard drive seems to be handling what it is designed for and I have not had any problems with it.

Bought this beacuse the one terabyte drive that I stole out of a external hard drive began to fail and would make my computer lock up for extended periods of time

This is a good Hard drive for people who are not very picky

Bought this for a computer I am rebuilding for my neighbor, comes with just the bare minimums: A Hard Drive

I am currently using this Western Digital Caviar Blue 500 GB SATA Hard Drive on this computer that I am using at this very moment!

This is a great hard drive for any computer that needs a new or a secondary hard drive

Good budget hard drive that works as expected

Then again, I have some late 1980's Connor 20MB, 100MB, 500MB and 1000 MB hard drives still running fine with nary a failure on my Compaq DeskPro legacy computers

he thanks me for picking such a great hard drive

I installed this hard drive as a replacement for a failed Seagate hard drive in my mother's Dell Optiplex GX520 desktop computer

Do all my storage on external hard drives which works well for me.

I love Western Digital hard drives

I don't want to be mean but the drive was dead on arrival

Most hard drives can be heard when engaged.

Out of three drives purchased....one drive was bad.

Western Digital have long been a reliable hard drive for a reasonable price.

Used it as the OS hard drive for a budget pc

It REALLY made the old laptop scream by comparison as IT had only a 4200 rpm hard drive.

When I started looking for a second hard drive I was expecting something in the way of $100./$125 and possibly $150.00,when a friend said look on Amazon before you plunk down $100.00 plus

I was given which was missing Hard Drive, donated desktop unit to help animals.

Hard drive works good

This hard drive performs okay for the occassional user

Hard Drive and yes it still works after all these years

RPM Desktop Hard Drive an one 1TB

While a definite speed hit is to be expected from a slower drive it installed and was up and running

So yeah, 5 stars, it's a hard drive just as a hard-drive should be and for 95% of

It installed quickly and is a very quiet drive.

Great hard drive for the money

When my old hard drive died, my son recommended this one and it has worked just fine.

Bought it to replace the old hard drive and have been using it for about six months

Good hard drive

When I upgrade this drive it will become a storage drive, so either way I ended up with a good drive and at a good price.

I bought this hard drive to replace my seemingly failing Seagate drive I had bought a year ago

Decent price, good drive

My favorite hard drive by far

I bought this HD after all the positive reviews I read about WD's Hard drives

I bought this hard drive to put in my security system for recording video and it works great, good buy

I like this hard drive

The OEM drive package came with no frills; just the hard drive.

This hard drive was recommended since there's a heat sensor in that IMac designed to work with it

Anyway this hard drive has been good so far, and has worked flawlessly

It's neither the fastest hard drive nor is it the biggest.

Western Digital is one of, if not the best, hard drives on the market

I bought this hard drive to use as a backup drive in my PC,.. i'm building, at 500 GB I have plenty of storage

Found their drives are more reliable for home PC used for normal use

Nice hard drive and very quiet

When I first started it the drive just makes a clicking noise.

received on time and the hard drive is working great, thank you Amazoon

This has been a good hard drive for me for going on 2 years now

So i would recommend this to anyone who's running out of space and who's other hard drive is about to croak

This is a great hard drive

This is the second time I get a defective WD drive

Nice hard drive

This is a great drive for budget build.

In 2013, I ordered a drive for another device and it was similarly packed; the other drive failed after one day of use.

All I know is that it works perfectly, which is why I bought it after my hard drive fried itself.

On my 2009 Dell desktop, I replaced my dying hard drive by first backing it using the Acronic software, then removing and replacing the it with the new but identical

I did download and ran Onyx (free and a program you should have) and the hard drive looks good

The drives run cool and silent with my setup, and it's quick enough to keep me happy

The first drive I received was dead on arrival, didn't even show up as existing in the bios

western digital drives are good drives.....fast and reliable they are hard to beat

very good product would buy again, and recommend to any one looking for a good hard drive

We ordered the same Western Digital Caviar Blue hard drive as the original since our old drive has been quite reliable over the past 4 years

I have a late 2006 iMac and this hard drive is totally compatible and runs perfectly on it

nice product but larger drives for the same coin can be had from amazon now, so keep looking...

Peeled them off to discover they were covering WD labels stating these were remanufactured hard drives.

I ordered the wrong hard drive.

One year later one of the hard drives had un-repairable sectors.

This drive is reasonably fast for the price and is much, much quieter than the supposed "Green" 1 tb hard drive I had before

A good hard drive needed to replace a previous one, same model, that died a bit prematurely, hence only three stars

Again WD has another great hard drive

Now, the programs are on the old hard drive [C:] and the data is on this new drive [

I know that the motherboards in my machines cannot make use of the 6Gb throughput, however, these drives are definitely faster than what they're replacing - older WD drives which indicate they are 7200RPM and 3Gb

500GB Desktop Hard Disk Drive FAILED AFTER ONLY 6 Months.

I think it's a good drive and would recommend it to any one needing more storage for a home office set up.

Would not recommend, due to the hard drive not working.

Even cheaper than a decent external drive!!

Of course there are drives which have much greater life expectancy, but hard drive prices have really spiked in recent months

BTW, those whose who are intested in recovering data from their failed drive should check out: 

I would not recommend this drive

I had to send it back as I meant to get a laptop hard drive, but I am sure it would have worked just fine.

The hard drive is great

MUCH SPACE.If you are looking for a sweet internal hard drive, and lots of gigabytes for a low price, search no more because western digital has ponied up for this cowboy

I was an idiot at first and didn't realize I hadn't formatted it, so i thought i got a faulty drive; after formatting, it worked like a dream

I have used many WD drives of this type before and have always been satisfied with them.

I bought this hard drive in Aug 2012 and now (Feb 15 2014) it has failed (boot sector was corrupted) and has to be replaced.

My main hard drive failed after 2 years.

drives are still great and fast enough for me with raid 10 :)

not as promised and is being returned to company, was not hard drive--was to clean hard drive

good hard drive

I called in FIVE times and got five different tech support people, ALL of whom could not install the software correctly for one of their simplest products (Passport external hard drive).

Ive read alot about hard drives crapping out on people

This Western Digital 500 GB Hard Drive installed easily and works perfectly in my Zmodo Surveillance System with 8 Weatherproof IR Cameras PKD-DK0865-NHD

My old hard drive died on an old HP computer.

Great hard drive

The hard drive is fast and the price is excellent compared to Newegg.

Easy installation, if you've worked on computers before, and great hard-drive

I love it so far even though I haven't had a chance to even take advantage of this hard drive yet

I would recommend it to anyone needing a internal hard drive.

I bought the hard drive for a gift, bottom line it was dead on delivery

My advice, use it just to store stuff and get a SSD hard drive to use it as your primary hard disk.

Much faster and larger than my previous hard drive and can take advantage of the 6 Gbs SATA ports on my Sandybridge Motherboard.

It has faster data transfers than my Western Digital PATA 500 GB drive, the 2nd hard drive that is installed for the same computer.

so I'm sure this hard drive will last for several years.

They are solid drives that hold up

but I wanted something reliable and reasonably fast and there is currently a hard drive shortage so all prices have been inflated

Naturally, I still recommend this drive, but beware of the heat.

Had this hard drive for a month or so now, works great, very easy to install- heres to hoping it lasts

I have use western digital for a long time it a great hard drive I hardly have a problem them

Used may different "brands" of hard drives over the years, and Western Digital has good performance characteristics, lasted longer and had fewer problems

These hard drives give good performance and are noted for their reliability for everyday computing

Anyway, WD is a good brand and it seems pretty fast as far as hard drives go, hopefully I can upgrade to an SSD one of these days.

Good hard drive for daily use in a non critical system.

Please, do yourself a favor and read multiple reviews before purchasing hard drives

but if it didn't it is not the drive's fault

The drive is most comon in todays computers sata i run win 7 without eney

Western Digital makes good hard drives

Hard drive in iMac 24" Intel 2211 crashed and needed replacement

Its just a WD hard drive

AS A SECOND HARD DRIVE IN MY

The hard drive works great, no issues

A very quick Google search and 3 or 4 clicks in Win7 formatted this OEM hard drive, and it's rocking and rolling w/oa hiccup as my Steam Library

Good drive, excellent price

If you really want a speedy hard drive for general purpose usage, you should be getting an SSD

great drives, I was pleased with customer service of platinum micro, inc

The drive... works like a drive should

I have always relied on Western Digital to provide sturdy, reliable long lived drives

Got this in to replace a bad hard drive

The hard drive does what it's supposed to do

I am using this hard drive in a raid system

Excellent Hard Drive for Desk Top Computers.

Good drive

The original drive did fail and I purchased another one of these to replace it.

and I understand messed up hard drives are sometime out of your reach.

It's much quieter than my original hard drive, and I really couldn't be happier with my purchase- especially considering the price.

Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive - WD5000AAKXI did a track on this package, it said delivered, not to me?checking with amazon now,I never had any problems before this.

It may not be the biggest drive but works great as a users drive.

Needed to replace a failing Seagate drive and found Western Digital at the right price

This hard drive has been installed for some time and has worked great.

I recommend this hard drive to anyone.

Spend your money on a Solid State Drive (SSD) instead

when my hard drive failed and led to the gray screen of death

This hard drive is faster then the one it replaced and it is quiet.

A nice, basic, reliable, 500GB hard drive

Good drive and the seller assured me of a 2 year warranty by email.

After 2 years only, used in an office PC that was used for 20 hours/week only, this drive died

A very good fast drive, very quiet but then again all WD drive are quiet now, compared to the 1980's, there is no comparison

I know the price of hard drives has come down a lot, but this price was great for the capacity I got

Good drive to replace a faulty Maxtor (go figure).

Hard drive works good

Installed this hard drive just short of 3 weeks ago and it's performing as I expected.

This drive not only looks great in my system, but is very fast for the price

I would recommend this drive to everybody..

This hard drive is a great drive, although it doesn't have a huge capacity it's made by Western

Also even if you've never installed a hard drive in your PC before it isn't rocket science and it is well worth it

HARD DRIVE

Although we are entering an SSD age, this hard drive is great for budget-based builds.

The hard drive listed as used but it likes brand new to me.

I bought this drive and it failed in less than a month

I have always liked Western Digital hard drives

I am writing to notify you that your purchase was not to my liking, because that when installing the hard drive in my computer, this present failures

I love this hard drive

I love this hard drive

I have always liked Western Digital hard drives

Although we are entering an SSD age, this hard drive is great for budget-based builds.

The bottom line is it's a good 500GB SATA III hard drive for the price.

I have purchased a few of these hard drives and had no luck getting anything to work

This hard drive is a great drive, although it doesn't have a huge capacity it's made by Western

I have had good success with Western Digital hard drives through the years.

WD Blue 500GB Desktop Hard Drive-7200.

I build and sell computers and every time I sell a computer that I built and use daily, I always switch out this hard drive (with all my files on it) with a new one for the customer

I think gamers might want a fast drive.

If you've purchased hard drives before, you know that they all install pretty much the same easy way.

Its hard to rate a hard drive other than delivery was prompt and the product is working exactly as I anticipated.

Drive works fine and is ready to use in the event the old drive has any problems.

Over many cecades I've had good experiences with WD hard drives

This hard drive is faster then the one it replaced and it is quiet.

when my hard drive failed and led to the gray screen of death

I got this for a PC refurbishing because I bought the same drive in 2008 and it still works fine

I recommend this hard drive to anyone.

I recommend it to anyone who needs an affordable drive.

This Drive is quite fast and is very quiet.

Definitely wasted several hours for one of my guys before we cleaned the drive.

If you need a hard drive your first option is this one.

Hard Drive - WD5000AAKX

Youtube has several very good videos on changing the hard drive on the Mac so since I have repaired many PC

I ordered the WD Caviar Blue Sata 500GB desktop hard drive to replace an 80GB to my computer

Until now, I prefer to update my system adding more 500GB hard drives insted of those with more capacity like 1 or 2 Terabytes, just in case of a failure or faster search of files

Excellent Hard Drive for Desk Top Computers.

i had to pick up a extra hard drive to store my musical data upon and let me tell you, this will do the job,

I've never had a bad drive from this company and I will continue to keep my business with them for many years to come.

If you really want a speedy hard drive for general purpose usage, you should be getting an SSD

Western digital has come out with some new hard drives, faster more reilable and you can go online the drivers.

Have used over ten of these hard drives in computer builds, if your looking for a hard drive for under 100 bucks this is it.

The hard drive works great, no issues

Very quiet and reliable drive.

I did test this drive extensively with hard drive diagnostic software I have, and it passed without any problems or faulty sectors.

it's a hard drive.

The hard drive runs smoothly and silently as the original hard drive

I've had this hard drive for two months in a RAID configuration in my Windows 7 computer.

Otherwise, the drive is quiet and fast.

Western Digital makes good hard drives

Good hard drive for daily use in a non critical system.

I have use western digital for a long time it a great hard drive I hardly have a problem them

Hard drive has been installed and running for a couple of months now with no promblems.

Could not access the hard drive at all.

Had this hard drive for a month or so now, works great, very easy to install- heres to hoping it lasts

Naturally, I still recommend this drive, but beware of the heat.

Great drive for the money !!

I typically get the 350-500 (NEW) GB Base Models like these for backups, but even better is the the amazing quality their BLUE/BLACK 64MB Cache Models I use that too are at GREAT Prices and just PERFECT for all your GAMING related needs in conjunction with a good SSD drive to install your OS too, you can't beat the anyone of their options in terms of the PRICE to PERFORMANCE Value

You will need some screws or a way to secure this drive to your case for a build or a housing to make it an external

It has faster data transfers than my Western Digital PATA 500 GB drive, the 2nd hard drive that is installed for the same computer.

WD is known for making great drives and this is no exception

The main hard drive on my PC crashed.

Got this drive to replace a smaller drive, I installed this drive only to find out the drive was dead

Install was very easy and the drive is very quiet

Easy installation, if you've worked on computers before, and great hard-drive

The hard drive is fast and the price is excellent compared to Newegg.

fastest cleanest drives.

This drive has made my computer faster comparatively

Great hard drive

]It will copy your current hard drive without any hassle and is easy to use and works well

Used this hard drive to refurbished an old computer, and it installed with no problems and works great.

got here fast the package was very good did a hard drive clone and

I first tried a 2T drive which works as a secondary drive on my HP computer but found that the computer wouldn't boot on the enhanced format

I have used WD hard drives for years now

I buy a lot of hard drives, and Western Digtal is a great brand.

I was a little skeptical because of the price, but this is a great drive.

This Western Digital 500 GB Hard Drive installed easily and works perfectly in my Zmodo Surveillance System with 8 Weatherproof IR Cameras PKD-DK0865-NHD

Note that the hard drive was tested on another computer and has the same flaws

This Hard Drive is a great buy imo

not as promised and is being returned to company, was not hard drive--was to clean hard drive

good hard drive

This was easy for me to install using a Coolmax Sata converter to clone my old hard drive to the new one

Highly recommend the caviar drive.

This is the hard drive that they sell to the companies who build the computers

The second drive I received seemed to work fine, at first, but is now showing signs of rapid failure (steadily increasing numbers of bad sectors being reassigned), Would not purchase again.

Great drive.

This WD drive functions well for my purposes, and being as reputable of a company as they are, you should also have no problems with this product!

It's a hard drive by WD

The hard drive is great

MUCH SPACE.If you are looking for a sweet internal hard drive, and lots of gigabytes for a low price, search no more because western digital has ponied up for this cowboy

Very fast drive

Used this to replace one of my "Third" failed Seagate drives

If you have a normal desktop or you're looking for something to store a personal backup on, this drive is perfect.

A great little drive for the price you pay

Great purchase and reliable hard drive

Again WD has another great hard drive

This drive is easy to install and is everything I expected

A good hard drive needed to replace a previous one, same model, that died a bit prematurely, hence only three stars

For critical data drives, I prefer the Caviars because their slower spin speed offers greater longevity and reliability with little sacrifice in overall system speed.