WD Blue 250GB Everyday PC Desktop Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, SATA 6 Gb/s, 7200 RPM, 16MB Cache

I ordered two of these drives, and of the two, one failed. It seems the spindle became dislodged judging by the grinding sound when I turned it on. The shipping box was practically thrown to my front door. To be honest, I would purchase spinning drives at a brick-and-mortar store where you run one less risk of damage in transit (which is probably the biggest killer of drives). However, Amazon has an amazing RMA system, so here's hoping the new drive I receive is just as great as the working one I already own.The working drive works great. Nice transfer speeds for a spinner, and runs quietly.

This is a great hard drive, I use it on my gaming rig, it spines at 7200rpm so u can’t go wrong with this hard drive, the performance is nice and solid, it’s very fast, stable and quite, and it’s sold here on amazon for a great price, I’m a IT professional and I also use it for business tasks, this hard drive is great for any task like storing data to watching movies and excessing all your files with flawless performance, I highly recommend this hard drive.

Package was several days late. Was wrapped up really nice in Bubble Wrap but was only inside of a Paper Envelope. Ordered a 250GB Drive but received a 500GB drive which is probably great for some people. The problem is, I ordered 250GB for a reason, because larger Drives are less reliable -- that's just a fact. The sweet spot is 250GB, once you get to 1TB and higher the failure rate goes up.Thankfully the Drive was New inside an anti-static bag and worked without any hassle. I can't say the same about the SSD this replaced, SSD's are a hassle to set up and have issues with Motherboards that are just a few years old. SSD's are still too unreliable unfortunately.

I put this in my Dell OptiPlex GX620, which was built in 2005. The original 80GB drive was filling up. I put the original drive in the 2nd bay, and now I use this new one for booting. This is the maximum size supported by this machine's motherboard. Dell would've charged me about $115 for a comparable Seagate drive, and I said effff that! :) I bought this from Amazon for about $49 in June 2013. It has been in use for two months now, and no problems at all!UPDATE: This drive finally died in 2019, having served me reliably throughout six years of heavy daily use! It was definitely a great value at the time at $49.