Store important games, videos, music, and more on this Western Digital Blue series hard drive. Its 2.5-inch form factor makes it suitable for use in laptops or notebooks. This 500GB Western Digital Blue series hard drive runs at 5400 rpm for decreased heat and power consumption.
Customer Rating
1
Defective
on September 19, 2013
Posted by: nerdKing
from Oakland, CA
Bought this hard drive (WDBMYH5000ANC-NRSN) to replace a Toshiba MK1237GSX on my HP Pavilion dv9420us with bad blocks. During the initial setup (using Win PE booted from usb), out of 10 to 15 reboots (didn't record the exact count), the drive showed up 3 times as unreadable in diskpart.
When I finally got back into my Win XP installed on the second hard drive (the computer has two hard drives and the WD was going to replace the first one), the first time I was able to access the WD hard drive without any problem, but when I ran WD's own "Data Lifeguard Diagnostic" tool to test it, it showed up as having 0GB capacity, while ironically, the tool correctly reported the second hard drive (Toshiba) as having 120GB capacity. I rebooted and ran the tool again, now it correctly reported the WD hard drive's capacity of 500GB. However, after I shut down the computer and turned it back on, the hard drive showed up as "unformated", though in fact I had already made two partitions both formatted as NTFS during the initial setup. I rebooted the computer without doing anything to the hard drive to see what would happen, and again it came back to normal.
I am not going to trust my system and data with such an erratic hard drive, and I want to caution future shoppers of potential data, money and time losses if they choose to buy it.
What's great about it: I can pick it up at bestbuy instead of buying online and waiting for a week