WD Blue 500GB Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM Class SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD5000AZLX

I bought this WD Blue 500GB Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM Class SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache 3.5 to add hard drive space to my Windows Vista P.C. That's right, WINDOWS Vista!It has worked perfectly right out of the box! I installed it, formatted it and it's working great!. I have trusted Western Digital hard drives for years now and would highly recommend any of their products. They install easily and work perfectly.

This Hard Drive was manufactured SEVEN YEARS ago (March 2017) so any warranty from Western Digital has long since EXPIRED. The seller is providing a ONE YEAR warranty and I have no doubt that the drive will last far beyond that date.I used this drive to upgrade from a 320gb 16mb Cache drive and the increased performance is noticeable.

I build desk tops and sometimes run Windows and Linux , 500 g is plenty of room . Great value most local stores charge twice as much.

So this product is amazing, but if you dont know what you are doing then i recommend searching how to format a new harddrive. as this comes with 0 documentation(not the sellers fault WD does this) but overall this is amazing and i recommend getting this. Ive had it for a few days and have my games and projects it also came in great condition. I HIGHLY recommend

Works great !!

These are replacements for old drives. The previous drives, same type, ran for over ten years 24/7/365 before starting to generate errors. I expect the same from these.The packing was poor. The drives were packed in small padded mailers, then placed in a larger padded mailer. The manufacture dates were 2016 and 2017, so not "new". They were still sealed in their anti-static bags.I'll see how they hold up.

The price and the delivery for this HDD are great. I installed the HDD and reinstalled the OS three weeks ago and the system was operating well. I ran a HDDScan on the drive this morning and the report shows a warning for Num 199 UltraDMA CRC Errors. I was not expecting to find any errors after 3 weeks. I should have checked the HDD when it arrived.

I received third Drive about a week ago for a pc build meant for game development, casual gaming, etc; as I finished the build I powered in my pc, and booted into windows through my boot usb drive, to my surprise, the hdd reads as 0mb free, I thought this was odd so I spent 4 hours moving around parts, switching data ports, data cords, power cords, looking through documentation, etc. Finally I went to cmd and detailed the disk only to find that the drive is basically none existent with volume, and in my bios it also shows as 0gb meaning this arrived dead. I am very dissapointed with what I received, what I paid for, what I basically work for, which in the end, was basically and virtually nothing.