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By David Oxley (London, UK)
On the downside, this was not packaged well at all - only a thin layer of foam to protect the drive while in transit; not even a "fragile" marking on the packaging.
On the upside, the drive installed without any issues, is quiet and hasn't failed in the first 2-3 weeks of use.
By Pascal
Bought to replace a faulty C: drive (also WD and failed after 18months, thus confidence not high but does exactly what I need). Installation is simple, operation is reasonably quiet.
A note on the faulty drive - it works for 20mins if wrapped in a freezer bag with ice, just long enough to recover my data! But, RMA with WD requires you to pay shipping costs, not obvious from their website.
A note on Amazon, failed to deliver next day as paid for, but have been prompt to refund delivery charges.
By A. Halstead (Manchester)
Mine arrived extremely well packaged, protective foam everywhere, external box stuffed with extra paper to stop it moving around. Installed in a newly-built rig, installed Windows 7: no problem. It's very quiet compared to my old Seagate drives & Windows 7 system evaluation programme rated it at 5.9 on a scale of 0-7.9, & declared it more than adequate for a fast gaming pc. No probs so far (2 weeks in). Transfer rates are very fast, but that may be down to the very fast speed of the rest of my components. I like it. It's very good value indeed. Recommended.
By A. C. Labels Clouston
I got 5 of these drives to upgrade capacity on overnight backups. One of the drives failed on it's first backup and I can't do anything with it in Windows Disk Management. The drive is visible but reported as unreadable. It has no drive letter and Windows isn't allowing me to do anything with it, like start again as if it was a fresh drive.
Due to the fact that data was written to the drive before it failed I'm reluctant to return it for a refund so I'm going to write it off and buy another. I've replaced dozens of hard drives over the years and this is the first one that failed on first use.
One of the other drives completed a backup but lost it's drive letter afterwards, so I had to reallocate - seems OK now.
We use these drives in a removeable caddy system called Idealstor. It's always possible that something else caused these problems, not the drives themselves, but prior to the upgrade we were using Seagate 320GB drives with no problems at all (other than we ran out of space and needed bigger drives, hence the upgrade).
I'm going to buy some more drives and I'll try a different brand. If I have trouble with these too I'll post a revision to this review but right now the experience hasn't been good.
UPDATE
Had no more problems with the 4 good drives, but the one that died after one backup doesn't look recoverable. I've checked reviews for other brands, hoping they would be slightly better, but they all have a similar story. Mostly happy users with the occasional problem. Seagate and Hitachi don't fare any better, at least on these larger capacity SATA drives, but I'll probably buy Seagate as I ran 10 of them in 2 different backup sets and they all worked perfectly straight out of the box and in service. I've notched the review up by one star on the basis that the 4 good drives seem OK.
By chily (uk)
I put this hard drive in a sky hd box it runs quiet and cool with no probs yet
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