Western Digital WD Caviar Blue, 320GB 3.5" Internal SATA Drive with 7200 RPM & 8 MB Cache

I bought the Western Digital Caviar Blue WD3200AAJS 320GB 8MB Cache 7200RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Desktop Hard Drive recently from MD TECH. I bought 3 other WD drives from one other vendor who ran out of this drive recently and I had to switch to MD Tech. The other vendor was superb and I expect the same business from MD Tech.I love these drives. I bought 2 Caviar Blue 320 Gb drives (SATA) and one 160 Gb (IDE), all WD's in the past and none have shown a glitch, and that after a very traumatic move to a new apartment having to hire some real jerks to move my stuff. All but this one easily survived the move. This one was just bought, so, no serious physical movement to the drive other than what goes on in shipping. It is way too soon to evaluate anything you buy from Amazon, but it is more likely you would give a good review and one soon enough affect new buyers, and that you would remember to review it if done very fast. I will report back here more about its behavior when there is real time to test it.However, my past experience with WD's is that they will last a very long time. I still have a 12 Gb drive that works in a pinch, about 19 years ago. Of course it doesn't hold much but can take second copies of critical files. I am not a gamer but am on my computer 27/7. It is on 24/7, I rarely turn it off unless I have to, for maintenance purposes, like vacuuming it out and checking circuitry for cards/peripherals that do not seem to be working right. I have no standby or hibernate. So these drives deliver!!! When you compare them with Seagate, Seagate won't last more than about 2-3 years (at least more modern versions of them, even though, they too, were manufactured at the same time as the WDs--2014). I still have a backup USB Seagate IDE working well that was made 17 years ago, and another USB Seagate (SATA) with some periodic failures bought at the same time, but all Seagates I bought after that have long since died, lasting at most 5 years. I suspect I have been lucky because there will be failures that happen too soon in every brand. We really do not know here at Amazon unless the failures happen very early. I think HDs should last at least 10 years.

Bought this for a very good price, works really well extremely satisfied. It has good read/write speeds, came brand new with no use on it, good physical condition on arrival.Have 298GB after installation of "Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit" and is working very well with very nice read/write speeds. This was an awesome buy and I definately reccomend it, I was nervous after reading some of the reviews, but you shouldn't be. I have always had Alot of faith with Western digital, and that DID NOT fall through, this was a really good buy at a really good price. I highly suggest if you need this for a cheap gaming build like I did, that you pick this up ASAP.Every PC part has a chance to come DOA(Dead On Arrival) and I was afraid this would after reading some of the reviews, but it didn't and it worked more than good. Came in two days, the packaging was so-so, and the installation was exactly how you'd think it would go.Overall, knowing what I was buying when I did, I give this a 10/10 Excellent buy and don't let some of the other reviews discourage you cause this was one of my best buys of 2015 all together.P.S. This hard drive is NOT for laptops, this is for DESKTOPS only.

This disk drive worked fine for about a week, just enough time to get everything set up on it then crashed. Unable to repair using Windows 10 or Western Digital diagnostic tools. Had to reinstall windows on a secondary drive then repair using chkdsk. Now it just functions as a built in backup drive for files. Don't trust it for my OS. Huge waste of my time for a nominal savings. Spend another $25 and buy a new ssd instead.

I bought two and striped them (twice the speed, but if one crashes, data on both is lost).They work but often make noise. I've had them for three months and no issues yet, but the noise concerns me. Great read/write speed and an unbeatable price for their size.