Cheapest price/GB

Hard drive started dying about 2 weeks after I bought it. Computer started to have giant spikes of unresponsiveness where everything would freeze for about 5 seconds. Went into my resource monitor and found that the response time for some applications on the hard drive were as high as 15000ms (15 seconds) which means it took 15 seconds to pull data off the hard drive. Normal values for the response times are around 10ms (1/100 seconds).

I ran the Western Digital drive checker two weeks in and the drive failed the first test. This drive is quickly dying and I am going to try to get a new HDD. If you think your drive may be dying, you can download this application from WD to check: http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=612&sid=3.

Fast Quiet Good price

Do not last

I have had to replace 3 of these in the past 2 years. I had one fail at home 6 months ago and one that failed within my wife's business machine a year ago. Last week I had one fail within a mirrored RAID array that resulted in corrupted and deleted data on both drives. This was the last straw. Goodbye, good riddance WD, never again.

Speedy

Doesn't last - Had two of these over the years and they both lasted a little over a year and both died in the same way: the drives would just disappear an hour or so after starting the computer, but they'd be good after a reboot. Then about half an hour. Then five minutes. This was over the course of about two weeks. So if your WD 1 TB Blue is doing this, time to look for a new drive.

Nice drive for archival, but don't use it for heavy-access stuff like games. Doesn't last.

Low $/GB Reasonably quick Lots of room

Still pales in comparison to even the lowliest SSD, SATA3 is capable of much faster xfers

Great budget HDD, plenty of room at a great price.

Quiet and fast drive for the price. WD brand name

2 Year Warranty only, first one was DOA but replacement works perfectly.

I'd stick with the Black drives for the future but am happy now that my 2nd drive is working.