WD Blue 3TB 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - 5400 RPM Class, SATA 6 Gb/s, 256MB Cache

It is reliable and well speeded

Unfortunately i received it without foam or any kind of protection

Working well. Quiet. Good purchase.

Surprisingly they even gave me some screws to install it. Too bad i misplaced my hdd brackets so i have to get them back from my old country when I'll visit this summer.It feels of good quality but i have something to say about it. I don't use it as a main drive.I have one 250ssd for windows, 1tb ssd another seagate 1tb hdd that I recycled from my old burnt out laptop and this 2TB WD blue.And however it makes like a squeeky/chirping sound when i start my computer, i hope its not a bad sign. I installed lots of games on it and i still got left 1.3TB.IMPORTANT NOTICE: it uses Shingled magnetic recording (SMR) which means that if you use it as a main drive for everything and you feel most of it up it will start to feel laggy. Because it needs time work through the deleted data and if you are using it in the meantime it will feel like its slow.Thats why i bought it only to store stuff in there and maybe some online games, that's it. And i sometimes need to access something on it but most of the time it has enough time to do his thing without slowing down for me. If you want something for main storage i recommend an ssd for the operating system and daily programs that run constantly while using this hard drive for occasional tasks that are not mandatory to run all the time.

Was expecting OEM type packaging but it came in proper retail box. It's hard to find OEM drives at this size and capacity for the price I paid.

The model provided was a WD20EZAZ-00L9GB0 which uses shingled magnetic recording (SMR) instead of conventional magnetic recording (CMR). The bottom line is that SMR can cause delays when writing data compared to CMR so buyers should be aware that together with the 5400 RPM this device may be slow when writing bulk data or updating existing data.After only a day I've already seen some weird behaviour when a game updated online and then took a long time to read the new files into a memory cache the first time possibily because the disk was housekeeping and moving files to new locations (see Wikipedia for an explaination of SMR).Would be ok for backup storage but might impact usefulness with dynamic real-time applications such as gaming (recommend you use SSD or CMR HDD).

This is so great love it. Top quality.

So far, so good. Since the spin rate is faster than the previous model it is more noisy (5,500 spin rate from memory). Use it as a back up device so no great hardship. You might notice it within a PC perhaps. Outside you do. This is the new line. Use Amazon Prime since in the past the Marketplace ones had manufacturing issues in the older model so the pins didn't line up with the brackets where you slide them into those racks for swapable storage. I was kind enough to exchange my good ones with the partners defective batch. Always best to stick to Prime for drives and solid state memory rather than market place sellers where dubious items can see the light of day.