Western Digital Blue 500 GB Laptop Hard Disk Drive (5400 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 2.5 inch) - Component Boxed

I bought this for a PS3 SuperSlim with only 12GB memory - after screwing this into the mount (available here: Sony PlayStation 3 Replacement Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Mounting Bracket ) it slotted in easily and my PS3 instantly found the disk when booted up and formatted it. I have since installed several games and had no problems what-so-ever. There's not much to say about this other than it was well packaged and 500GB is more than adequate for what I need. I initially looked at a 320GB drive (which was still larger than I needed) but I wanted a trusted brand - I have used Western Digital external hard-discs for some time and felt confident that WD would provide a great device. WD are also pretty reaonsable price-wise, there are cheaper brands but I have read some horror stories and didn't want to risk a poor quality drive. There are also more expensive brands out there, but this represents a good middle ground of decent performance, excellent quality, and acceptable price. In a nutshell: Highly recommended to anyone requiring an 2.5 SATA drive, especially those wanting one to upgrade the storage space of a PS3 - it was a doddle.

I purchased this to swap out a dying hdd on my daughters laptop. Using AOMEI freeware, and a USB hdd caddy, it was a simple task of cloning the 350GB hdd on to this 500GB drive. The new drive simply swapped in and was recognised as native without re-registering any software or losing data. The difference was immediately obvious. Access speeds of the drive are good and installation is straight forward. Build of the drive is robust and it is really everything you need in a replacement / new drive. I have used Western Digital drives on a number of builds and replacements over the years and I have always found them reliable. The Blue series is an affordable solution to disk replacement, particularly on older systems that are useful, but of relatively low value. As every laptop I have owned has died due to hdd failure, I would suggest it is worth £30-£40 to clone your hdd just in case. Recommended

I bought this to replace a failed drive in a notebook computer. This is 2018 the new drive i bought from this company was manufactured in 2012 that's 6 years ago. Any one buying a drive from this company check the manufacturing date.Although the drive was delivered quickly i was dismayed the drive was so old therefore no manufacturers guarantee. The drive is installed and working. Perhaps the company should advise it is old stock they are selling.

The drive seems perfectly OK, and is working fine in my laptop so far (just restoring from an image backup as I speak). It did, however, arrive sealed in its anti static bag but in a plain brown box with no documentation or branding of any kind on the box or packaging. The drive itself is clearly WD and exactly as per the photo - I presume it is new - I see some comments refer to it as recertified but I can't tell. Anyway, it works and that's the main thing!

My daughter dropped her laptop on its edge on to carpet but it somehow unfortunately damaged the hard drive, so her laptop was useless. Got this to do a home repair - hoping that I could revive the laptop (which was 4 years old) and extend its use mainly as an internet device . The Sata drive was really easy to install and it works very well. The laptop is back in use (typed this review on it) and has since been dropped again to no ill effect. The 500GB was fine for the machine I had (it was 500GB to start with) but may be a bit underpar compared to new drives where 1TB is standard. 500GB is plenty for us (and cheaper) as the machine is used mainly for internet browsing, wordprocessing for homeworks and some video download. We do not use it as a gaming machine or to store huge amounts of films, box sets etc. If you need a drive to do all that then you will need one with a bigger storage capacity.

Swift delivery as always, well packaged, and appears well made, HD fitted straight in once the supports off the old disc had been swapped over, installed Windows from installation disc and computer (Toshiba) is as good as new and quite fast for the age of it, no noise at all from the HD. Much cheaper than a new laptop, if your computer is slow, clogged up with junk and you feel up to the job go for it, lots of help online or phone a friend.

WD HDD's have been known as reliable drives used by banks and busnienss (the high end models of course). However, their consumer range aren't neglected in quality whatsoever and with a 3 year warranty as standard a WD drive is the perfect choice for either a replacement for a failing/failed drive I'm not Biassed towards a manufacturer but WD alonf with Seagate are my first choices, especially seeng as I've been in the industry for the past 16 years. Yes, some drives fail before their time, and some are just dud, but so are many other things of sensitive electronic nature. This product, and any other WD product, green and the more advanced black range for consumers have my highest recommendations. WD 500GB 2.5 inch SATA Internal Hard Drive - Blue

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Replaced the failed drive in a 2011 Macbook Pro with this drive and it's been flawless. The performance of the computer has improved, and having twice the storage space of the original 250GB drive is an awesome upgrade. Definitely a cheap way to keep this otherwise perfectly functioning macbook going. Plus, having WD's reliability behind the new drive makes it even better.

Zunächst war in meinem Laptop (Sony Vaio VGN-NS21Z) eine Hitachi Festplatte verbaut. Abgesehen von der nur befriedigenden Geschwindigkeit, hatte diese Festplatte hinterher einen Schlag abbekommen und hat nicht mehr richtig funktioniert. Daraufhin hatte ich mir eine Western Digital WD5000LPVT für etwa 45€ bei notebooksbilliger.de gekauft. Diese hat wohl leider beim Transportieren des Notebooks einen Totalschaden erhalten, lief bis dahin aber einwandfrei. Ich weiß, das nächste Mal sollte ich besser aufpassen ;) Ich sehe die Kosten für die neue Festplatte als Lehrgeld. Jedenfalls kostet die LPVT-Variante nun 75€. Deshalb habe ich mir die LPVX bestellt, weil diese bezüglich der Produktbeschreibung keinen Unterschied zur LPVT darstellt, jedoch um die 30€ billiger ist. Festplatte eingebaut et voila! Sie wurde erkannt, Betriebssystem draufgespielt und nun werkelt sie bei jedem Betrieb des Laptops seit fast drei Monaten zuverlässig ohne Datenverluste, ohne Ausfälle, Abstürze oder sonstigen Problemen. Die Festplatte ist zudem nur schwer hörbar. Auch im Betrieb habe ich zur LPVT keinen Unterschied festgestellt. Somit bin ich höchstzufrieden. Von daher kann ich nicht nachvollziehen, warum das scheibar identische Modell WD5000LPVT 30€ mehr kostet. Jedenfalls kann ich hier ruhigen Gewissens fünf Sterne geben.

My dell inspiron hard disk was dead so i was actually in a great confusion whether to buy seagate momentus or WD. Now I'm glad i choose this one. Because the hard disk that comes with my laptop was made by seagate and i also found that seagate HDDs has higher failure rate than WD's. So i highly recommend you to invest your money on WD HDD. Windows OS + WD = amazing performance. I installed windows 8.1 in WD and the boot time is really fast compared to my seagate drive.

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