Western Digital 2TB WD Blue PC Internal Hard Drive HDD - 5400 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD20EARZ

I ordered this a few days back and it came yesterday. I installed it as soon as I got home from work, created a partition in the same way I've done a million times before, but something either went wrong there, which I don't think happened. I've been installing and partitioning drives since I was like 10. I'm not saying it's impossible I screwed up, I'm saying it's very unlikely.The computer I installed it in also booted slow which it shouldn't because it's a brand new, high end workstation PC booting from an M.2 that I built myself to perform very specific tasks. It normally takes 5-20 seconds to boot from dead cold. With that drive installed it took about a minute, which your average PC user probably wouldn't even notice. But I'm not an average user, and I certainly did.It also gave me issues when trying to render with Blender or open CC4, Substance Painter, or any GPU intensive program. Even Halo CE was laggy and that's hardly a dent on my GPUs at max settings. I can play Halo and Render animations at the same time most nights.I'm not sure what that was about, some sort of bottleneck in my machine somwhere, because when I removed the drive and wiped the partition, everything worked fine again.I'm fairly sure there was a fault with the drive itself. I first noticed when it only showed 8gbs of capacity. I've seen USB sticks do this, but it's almost universally because that portion of the memory is unallocated. This was not unallocated, it was simply not present.I tried every formatting and recovery trick I know to no avail. Even tried a few paid recovery programs with no luck. At first I thought I just screwed up, but with each recovery and formatting methods I tried that failed, the more I was convinced I didn't screw up.Finally around 11 or so at night, after hours of trying I gave up and submitted a request for a replacement which came already today. I just installed said replacement moments ago. No issues what-so-ever. Installed fine and reads exactly as it should.So, yeah. I did apparently receive a dud on the first go, but Amazon was quick to replace it and the new one has no issues thus far.WD has always made good equipment and I stand by their HDDs even still. This was the first problem I've had with WD drives in many years, over a decade. I've had VERY old ones become corrupted, but never had one not work right out of the box.Again, I want to stress that this was last night it all happened. Amazon got a replacement to me in less than 24 hours, so yeah. No complaints from me. Everything is working and I'm happy. Would buy again.

Nice hard drive. Storage is huge. So far working great.

Arrived safely amd for used had low hours much appreciated

I have millions of pictures and you can't get too much storage right? I have used Western digital hard drives for years and none have failed me yet! This was a great deal for 6 TB

Purchased two of these WD Blue 8 TB drives recently. The second one took almost a month to get here but it finally arrived. Both drives are working flawless so far. I don't intend to use these for gaming or consistent drive activities. Only purchased as storage drives where I can free up my NVMe SSD drives for mission critical operations.The drives must be formatted as GPT drives so you can access the full drive capacity. If you format it as an MBR drive it will only show up as a 2 TB because that's the limitations imposed upon you by the MBR standard. Once you initialize the drive as GPT, you should format it as required. These WD Blue drives yields 7.28 TB of drive space total after it's formatted in it's entirety. Don't forget to assign a drive letter or it may not show up on your screen.I purchased the "ORICO 3.5 USB C 3.1 Hard Drive Enclosure" for the secondary drive so I can use it as an external backup drive. It allows the WD Blue drive to work at it's maximum potential speed of 6Gbps via a 3.1 USB port. Most of the other drive enclosures operate at 3.0 speeds and would make drive backups slower than necessary on a 5640 RPM drive.With that said, I highly recommend these WD Blue drives for passive backup storage. Don't know if you should be using these for gaming and such. There is a reason they offer a WD Black drive for such activities.

been using this drive for years. she is still kicking

I must have bought this back before covid, still going strong.

30 years of tech support WD is where its at.