WD Blue WD20EARZ - 2 TB 64 MB

Having been fed up with a 2TB pencil drive not being compatible with Windows 10 (don't you just love how Microsoft tries to control your life?!!!) or not working properly with the Mac, I decided to get another Western Digital 4TB drive. They continue to be the world leader in drives. Although this is an internal drive, I didn't want to pay the more expensive price for an external drive, plus my Mac is old (2008) and the connection is USBA, so the latest external drives would likely not connect. I therefore use this drive in a docking station and it works fine. - I play music live from this during my radio shows, loading to the playout app. For me the SSDs of this capacity and greater need to come down considerably in price before I will switch over to them. I therefore use great HDDs like this and they work fine.

Bought this for a computer upgrade. Nice amount of storage at a good price and it's a nice quiet hard drive.

I have bought a few Western Digital drives over the years, and never had any problems with any of them. This time I purchased 3 of the Western Digital Blue 6TB drives. Two are working fine, just as you would expect, but the other failed within 10 minutes of installation! I guess its just the luck of the draw! In general all my other WD drives have lasted for years, in fact I have a Western Digital My Book Live 3TB NAS that is still running after 9 years (24x7). The failed drive has been returned and refund issued without any questions, so I'll be ordering a replacement.

I now have more than 10 of these 6tb drives. Western Digital have never let me down. I used to buy 1tb until the price point of the 3tb and 6tb came down.

Upon acquiring a 4TB WD hard drive, I initially found its performance to be quite satisfactory, albeit accompanied by a noticeable level of operational noise. However, as the drive's capacity began to approach the 1.8TB threshold, I was confronted with an alarming development: the drive would inexplicably freeze for durations ranging from 10 to 20 seconds during read/write operations within the Windows 11 environment, with the Task Manager indicating a distressing 100% usage. Despite the absence of any glaring faults reported by CrystalDiskInfo and a similar lack of errors detected by Windows 11's scanning utility, the drive's tendency to freeze remained an unsettling and persistent issue. Moreover, this phenomenon appeared to be confined solely to the WD drive, with other hard disks and their associated files and applications mercifully spared from these bouts of unresponsiveness. It is worth noting that the drive's temperature hovered around a relatively mild 31 degrees Celsius throughout these episodes. In light of these vexing experiences, I must, in good conscience, caution prospective buyers against investing in this particular hard drive. As for myself, I had initially sought to replace a damaged 4TB Seagate Barracuda with this WD model; however, I now find myself inclined to eschew traditional hard disks in favor of the more reliable and efficient solid-state drives for my future storage needs.

If you value quiet go for the slower models Althea are way easier to deal with but if you are like me and only use these for storage or big games they only spin up now and then anyway :)

These drives provide excellent storage capacity in my Drobo NAS and are very quiet for use in the open office space (older retired drives were very noisy). Drobo reported that 2 of the 3 drives I purchased were "bad" when trying to add them to an operational array, but doing an 'initialize' on the array (which wiped it) got them working - then restored from backup.

Trusted name at a good price