WD Hard drive Blog

Pack up your office files and take them home, carry thousands of songs or pictures, and synchronize files between home and office and encrypt everything on the drive for added security. These elegant portable drives are simple to use, light and easy to carry, and require no power adapter - they are powered directly through the USB cable.
Customer Review: WD 320GB My Passport
I have used a couple of these Portable HDDs in the past and everyone of them are still in great shape, and serve their purpose very well. Another nice point to bring up is they do not require a power cable, they are powered by the USB connection.
Customer Review: Great device
Bought for my husband for christmas. He needed one of these portable harddrives. It’s very compact, nice looking with it’s piano finish look, and good quality. Great price for this device. Worth every cent. Buy Here

This next-generation SATA hard drive features a 16 MB cache and a 300 MB/s transfer rate for lightning-fast performance - ideal for high-demand computing, multimedia and gaming systems. Not only fast, it also delivers technologically advanced acoustics and cool operation.
Customer Review: Reliability
I bought this HD about 18 months ago and haven’t had any issues with it. Fast and reliable for and excellent price when I bought it. Absolutely recommended
Customer Review: Hard drive ok, but come with cables
This hard drive was in good conition, but the item reach without cables, I had to buy cable to install device. Buy Here

PRODUCT FEATURES:Pre-Formatted 400GB 7200RPM hard disk with built-in fanMaximum speed USB 480Mbit/sec bulk mode transferHigh performance embedded processor to reduce firmware overheadDual (ping-pong) buffer to minimize bus latencyIntelligent interface uses no host CPU resources to control/monitor time-consuming drive phases other than data transferPlug and play without driver installationProprietary Windows driver supports all devicesUniversal firmware supports all devices, automatic detection for ATA or ATAPI protocolPerfect for adding/sharing external storage devices
Customer Review: Great Product!
This backup hard drive is working great so far. Be a little careful when using Vista that you don’t delete things off the backup and orginal also. It’s a Vista quirk and NOT a hard drive issue. Certainly the right price and NO complaints here. Buy Here

WD Scorpio Blue drives offer high-performance, low power consumption, and cool operation, perfect for notebooks and other portable devices. Pick the drive that suits your needs with the confidence in knowing that all WD Scorpio Blue drives are built to the highest standards of quality and reliability. Buy Here

Cool, quiet and fast. WD Caviar Blue drives offer superior performance and reliability, making them ideal for business and family desktops. Buy Here

WD Scorpio delivers best-in-class performance with low power requirements comparable to much slower notebook drives. In addition, you’ll get the quietest 2.5-inch drive on the market with real-time data protection technology to help keep your data safe.
Customer Review: Great hard drive!
2.5-inch EIDE Hard Drives 100 GB, 100 MB/s, 8 MB Cache, 5400 RPM

From experience Western Digital has been a great and reliable and I like the features that the WD Scorpio has:

Fast and efficient - Spins at 5400 RPM for fast performance but has power specs similar to slower 4200 RPM drives. Low power consumption yields increased reliability.

Quiet - WD’s exclusive WhisperDrive” technology with SoftSeek” algorithms make this the quietest 2.5-inch hard drive, regardless of spin speed.

Reliable - WD’s ShockGuard” technology protects the drive mechanics and platter surfaces from shocks. WD’s DuraStep Ramp” locks the heads in a secure position away from the disk to provide another layer of protection when the drive is not in use. Utilizing the most technologically advanced material available, the drive can perform a minimum of 600,000 load/unload cycles without contamination - up to twice the performance of its competitors.

Rugged - WD Scorpio’s rigid stainless steel top cover withstands more than 5 pounds of pressure - nearly 1.5 times the industry average - without pinching vital internal components.

It was easy to install and replaced an 40GB which had replaced another 40GB drive that had failed, both where non-western digital hard drive. And the WD has been great. Buy Here

Protect your business assets and access them remotely with this easy-to-use combination of reliable storage and automatic backup features. Windows operating system required for remote access.
Customer Review: horible to work with
I bought this poduct a few months ago and still having problems with it. I could not transfer any file over 150GB with out it crashing and stoping. I had to turn it off and on to get it to reboot. It is slow in the search for anything on the disk you are looking for. evertime i want to use it it is down so i have to restart and reboot the drive at least twice a dayI i paid full price for it and hate it. I am ready to keep all the info on my computer for the network I have set up. Will try to find something better. i do not recomend this to anyone.

Customer Review: Works great!
This is my 3rd MyBook external HD and it improves on the performance and space of my other versions. The person who gave it a negative review either has a bad drive (it happens) or did not re-format the drive to NTFS. It does take a bit of time to format to NTFS (about 1 hour and 30 minutes), however it is worth it for you have a faster more efficient hard drive. Buy Here

WD RE 7200 RPM hard drives are engineered to thrive in a high duty cycle RAID system while still offering traditional low cost-per-capacity desktop value. Designed and manufactured to server-class standards, WD RE drives provide RAID-specific, time-limited error recovery (TLER) to significantly reduce drive fallout caused by extended drive error-recovery processes and are tested to 1 million hours MTBF. Buy Here

Backing up your important files has never been easier! The CAUM Series external hard drive features the Cavalry One Touch Backup button, which allows the user to configure, with the included software, which directories to back up automatically at the touch of a button.

The CAUM boasts exceptional heat dissipation without a fan for near-silent operation. It is also remarkably durable, with state-of-the art shock absorption. The stylish enclosure features an illuminated face and is constructed of solid aluminum, keeping the hard drive operating at a safe and cool temperature while protecting the data within. Its stackable design ensures a clean and uncluttered workplace. Buy Here

Some hard drive companies design desktop-class drives with the Serial ATA (SATA) interface. To meet the demands of enterprise storage, WD is going one better. Western Digital is the only company combining an enterprise-class mechanical platform with the SATA interface to meet all the demands of the enterprise environment - reliability, performance, and reduced cost.
Customer Review: Raptors going the way of the dinosaur?
I’ve been reading lately about solid state disc(SSD) drives making their way to the consumer market. With no moving parts they would be much more quite then the drives we use now, are super fast, but they also cost their weight in gold. A 32GB SanDisk SSD drive will run you over a grand! Until those prices drop I’ll stick with a hard disc drive, thank you very much!

As far as the Raptor goes I couldn’t be happier with its performance. The price isn’t bad and the read/write times are impressive. Right now I’m only running one of these but in the near future plan on running a dual boot system and using two of these for the OS’s and essential programs. My 2x TB drives will hold all my movies and other media.(Hi-Def media really eats up the HD space quickly, I still remember when a Gig was a ton of space!)

One of Vistas touted features is ReadyBoost or using a jump drive, but when you have a Raptor theres no need. I saw no noticeable improvement in access times when using ReadyBoost, the 4GB Corsair Voyager GT actually seemed slower than when using the Raptor.

While the Raptors are far from silent(Samsungs Spinpoint drives are very quiet!) I wouldn’t say they are loud. My Liteon DVD drive is much noisier then my Raptor so I have no complaints. I’m hoping in the future WD releases larger than 150GB drives so I can just use them in place of 7200RPM drives, time will tell. While the price premium of a 10kRPM drive wont appeal to everyone, I think the small increase is worth it to enthusiasts looking to squeeze every last bit of performance out of their setup. Recommended!
Customer Review: +Fast drive+all black,sleak…-bit noisy…-pricy-,only sata-150
I have 2 of these in RAID-0, they literally saturate the sata-1 bus @ 150mbps. Would of been better if these drives support SATA-II at the time they were released…Can get rather noisy in a quiet environment (sounds like some slugs in a plasticbox being shaked) when heavily accessed..but atleast the audible frequencies are in the lower spectrum and doesn’t have the high pitch sound that comes from my 15,000 rpm SCSI Seagate Cheetah, which is much slower than this although made since 2000. Don’t go for the raptor-X infront of this one, as that one has a lower MTBF, is more audible (due to the special cover), and is entirely more expensive, unless that’s what you want ofcourse. They are otherwise, identical in performance. Buy Here