WD Bare Drives 2TB WD Green SATA III Intellipower 8 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Hard Drive

I took a chance that I could make this fit in my netbook. And it doesn't. But I made it fit. OK, here's what I did. I have a ACER One 722 netbook. Came with a stock 250 GB hard drive, which I immediately took out and replaced with a Samsung 1 TB Spinpoint bought on Amazon, with a fresh clean Windows 7 install about 2 years ago. That filled up quickly with my DJ tunes and tons of movies. When I saw this 2 TB WD hardrive for only $105 I wanted to try to see if I could make it fit. After reading all the complaints in the reviews I figured I could and if not I got a 2TB external HD. First off, the contacts fit perfectly, because the computer is a ribbon strip and can accommodate some latitude of a mm or two higher. Now if you are familiar with your netbook, you probably know the whole plastic bottom is attached with only one screw, to expose all the inner-eds. Just mount the 15mm 2 TB hard-drive as you would normally. Now try to reattach the bottom with the one screw...It will fit, trust me on this, but with a bit of a bulge on the bottom. And the wonderful thing about it, nobody but you know the bulge is even there.Now for me anyways, cloning was bit of challenge since the netbook has no optical drive to use Clonzilla as a boot disk to start the cloning process. And I didn't have enough USB inputs for the external optical burner (2) and the external case to put the 2 TB HD in for cloning, also (2). So I took a chance and tried a freeware cloning program from Freeware Files called AOMEI Backupper Standard Edition 2.0 which does not have to have a boot start with a CD. Took about 14 hrs to clone my 1 full TB to the new 2 TB drive. Now here is where I had to jump thru hoops to get it recognized by the computer. When I powered up the netbook, C drive only showed 1 TB, not the 2 TB. So I used the default Windows My Computer, Disk Management to set the unallocated 1 TB part to at least now show in My Computer as an additional 1TB drive "D". Next I used EASEUS Partition Master 9.1.0 Home Edition to merge the partitions into one 2 TB, and viola! Done!One other note I would like to make. I also have a 17' Toshiba Satellite L775D-S7340 quad core. So I checked to see if it would fit. Well guess what? It doesn't fit...But it does!!! I took out the 1 TB Samsung Spinpoint also bought at Amazon, it also with a fresh Windows 7 install. I tried to make it fit and as with my Acer Netbook, it slid right in too. I then screwed the one screw back in place, and low and behold it too will have a 2 TB 15mm HD...of course with a manageable slight buldge on the bottom that no one will see anyway. So my advice...try it! I doesn't fit...but it does!

I needed two 2.5" drives for a RAID1 array, and the bigger the better. These worked perfectly for my purposes. Yes, they're big (these were my first 15mm 2.5" drives, it's actually kind of crazy how big they are), and they're heavy as hell, but the speeds they get are fast and they stay pretty cool while delivering those speeds. I've had the RAID1 running for a few months now, and I haven't had a single problem. Now if only they could fit 4TB worth of platters into one of these things...

This drive would be great - IF it would fit in standard size cases. I tries four different cases and it did not fit in any of them.FAIL!

My only issue with this is that it won't fit in a laptop. There was plenty of warning though, so it's my fault for not reading closely enough. I gave it a four star instead of a five because it performs well as advertised and is reasonable for the price, but leaves something for improvement in the bulk department.