Western Digital 2TB WD Blue Mobile Hard Drive - 5400 RPM Class, SATA 6 Gb/s, 128 MB Cache, 2.5"

This WD 2.5" HDD offers an excellent value with high storage capacity at a great price. I use it as an external drive with a connecting cord as needed, and it has been performing flawlessly. It's whisper-quiet and has fast read and write speeds from what I've seen so far as well. Easily recognizable and formatted through Windows, and delivering the reliable performance and quality that I've come to expect from the WD brand. All in all, for external or 2.5" replacement, I think this is a solid choice for your storage needs. Would recommend!

WD drives have yet to fail me, had laptops with them as primary back then and now as secondary storage, arrived well capacity as purchased and packaged and protected from impact that could have happened over delivery, drive has been working great so far, capacity and speed as expected. Solid purchase

Installed it in Eufy Homebase for cameras, works fine, checked once or twice to see if it was getting heat beyond normal but it was fine. Priced right during prime day, so bought it. I had to format it for Eufy to start using it.

I bought the 2.5" 2TB bare drive to replace the 500GB drive in my Dell Inspiron 15. Despite some negative reviews I ordered this anyway. It came a day earlier than expected and was packed in a sealed antistatic bag in a box wrapped with bubble protector and shipped in a padded packing envelope. Good care in shipping. A sticker on the outside of the antistatic bag read "2 yr warranty by Hard Drive Geeks." So if the drive does fail I won't be calling WD but contacting the Geeks. As far as hard drives go, they are all a gamble. Over the years I've had hard drives fail, but WD ones seemed to be the best, so I prefer them to Seagate.….I put the bare drive into my USB drive dock and connected the USB to my laptop. I then used the free Hard Drive clone utility Macrium Reflect I downloaded from CNET Downloads. This is on a Windows 10 x64 system. All I did was choose the current hard drive, click Clone and then click the new HD in my dock as the destination. The software ran flawlessly and copied my whole drive in about 5 1/2 hrs. Then I shut the laptop down, unplugged it, took out the old drive and put the new 2TB drive in. Works perfectly, and I will then use the Windows resizing utility on the remaining space for storage. If you don't know how to remove or install a hard drive just put in your computer model and type hard drive installation on youtube, there are a ton of videos. Overall I am very happy with this product. If the drive starts acting up I will update the review. In the meantime I have put the original hard drive in a protective case for storage in case I ever need to put it back in for an emergency.