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I ordered this a few days back and it came yesterday. I installed it as soon as I got home from work, created a partition in the same way I've done a million times before, but something either went wrong there, which I don't think happened. I've been installing and partitioning drives since I was like 10. I'm not saying it's impossible I screwed up, I'm saying it's very unlikely.
The computer I installed it in also booted slow which it shouldn't because it's a brand new, high end workstation PC booting from an M.2 that I built myself to perform very specific tasks. It normally takes 5-20 seconds to boot from dead cold. With that drive installed it took about a minute, which your average PC user probably wouldn't even notice. But I'm not an average user, and I certainly did.
It also gave me issues when trying to render with Blender or open CC4, Substance Painter, or any GPU intensive program. Even Halo CE was laggy and that's hardly a dent on my GPUs at max settings. I can play Halo and Render animations at the same time most nights.
I'm not sure what that was about, some sort of bottleneck in my machine somwhere, because when I removed the drive and wiped the partition, everything worked fine again.
I'm fairly sure there was a fault with the drive itself. I first noticed when it only showed 8gbs of capacity. I've seen USB sticks do this, but it's almost universally because that portion of the memory is unallocated. This was not unallocated, it was simply not present.
I tried every formatting and recovery trick I know to no avail. Even tried a few paid recovery programs with no luck. At first I thought I just screwed up, but with each recovery and formatting methods I tried that failed, the more I was convinced I didn't screw up.
Finally around 11 or so at night, after hours of trying I gave up and submitted a request for a replacement which came already today. I just installed said replacement moments ago. No issues what-so-ever. Installed fine and reads exactly as it should.
So, yeah. I did apparently receive a dud on the first go, but Amazon was quick to replace it and the new one has no issues thus far.
WD has always made good equipment and I stand by their HDDs even still. This was the first problem I've had with WD drives in many years, over a decade. I've had VERY old ones become corrupted, but never had one not work right out of the box.
Again, I want to stress that this was last night it all happened. Amazon got a replacement to me in less than 24 hours, so yeah. No complaints from me. Everything is working and I'm happy. Would buy again.
| Standing screen display size | 3.5 Inches |
|---|---|
| RAM | 1 GB |
| Hard Drive | 1 TB Tested For Compatibility We perform tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in our F.I.T. Lab to give our customers confidence that our drives will work in their systems. low Power Consumption State-of-the-art seeking algorithms and advanced power management features help ensure low power consumption. NoTouch Ramp Load Technology Safely positions the recording head off the disk surface to protect your data. Upgrading Your Drive is Easy Seamlessly migrate your current system to your new Western Digital drive using Acronis True Image WD Edition cloning software, available as a free download on the WD Support site. This software enables you to copy all your data to a new drive so you don't have to reinstall your operating system to get all the benefits of a new drive. |
| Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 1 |
| National Stock Number | 7025-01-619-0850 |
