WD Bare Drives 320GB WD Blue SATA III 5400 RPM 8 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Notebook Hard Drive

I bought this in January 2014 to replace the puny 40GB drive that came pre-installed with my PS3 (white fatty). I don't know how I got by with so little for so long. Most disc-based games these days require some kind of install, and more and more games are going the digital download route (I'm part of PlayStation Plus), so I needed more room badly. I considered going up to 750GB or even 1TB, but 500 GB seemed to be sweet spot between performance and cost. I didn't want to spend too much, especially since I'd likely be purchasing a PS4 in a year.I spent several hours reading reviews and comparing prices, deciding between traditional hard drives and SSD. In the end, I chose this one, based on my positive experience with the WD brand and based on the price. For $45, this is a good price for a roomy drive and gives new life to my PS3 for all my downloads. Quiet and no problems at all.

Got this for my 80gb backward compatible Playsation 3. It works absolutely great! At first when I swapped it, it seemed slightly slower than usual, but after a few hours it went to top speed, now faster than my original 80gb drive. So don't be alarmed if this happens. Also, make sure you have your game saves on a usb drive. Some saves may not be copy-able so you might have to have Playsation Plus to upload the saves. You don't necessarily need a backup device and spend extra money. Make sure to sync all your trophies to your account before you swap hard-drives.The only issue was unrelated to the product itself, as it was just my PS3 mount/screws. For those of you buying it for a fat PS3, don't worry about getting a new mount since this will fit in the original. The issue I had was that the PS3 screws were easily stripped. If it comes to that case, go to a hardware store and have them pliers the screws if it gets stripped. They won't charge you. Or if you have pliers yourself you can do it yourself, but if you neve rused them have a professional do it.

So I ordered this SATA Harddrive by WD to upgrade my fat PS3 from 80gbs to 500 gbs. It arrived in great condition with decent protection. I was able to install it into my PS3 with little problems except I had trouble with one of the screws for the harddrive. One screw just had a hard time going in, so I had to settle on screwing it in as best as I can without damaging the hard drive. My PS3 reformatted the harddrive pretty quickly. Word of advice after reformatting, if you are using a USB to update your PS3, please make sure every thing is "LABELED" correctly on the USB because otherwise your PS3 will not recognize the file. When I was updating my PS3 it could not find the update on my flash drive, and then I had to upload the USB to my computer and rename the file so the PS3 could recognize it. The only problem I found on my PS3 since upgrading hard drives is when using the PS Store and exiting. Everytime I kept pressing the canceling button which is "O" to exit the PS store, my PS3 would turn off on its own and not properly. But I don't run into this problem when I press the PS button and select quit program when leaving the PS store but that just my PS3 Idk why it does that but quitting the program manually seems to prevent this problem.

Replaced a dying Seagate 120GB drive in older laptop. No problems in install or initialization or partition or format. Reloaded from scratch O/S and all applications and data that was saved from the older drive (through backups, not from the Seagate drive). I have always preferred Western Digital drives, but the laptop came with the other brand. I have replaced a number of Seagate drives over the years that have failed while out of warranty and always have replaced them with Western Digital drives, with good success and performance, reliability, and longevity. A very good value for replacement in older laptops.