WD Scorpio Black WD2500BEKT 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 2.5″ Internal Notebook Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: worked great out the box, formatted and faithfully backed up my macbook every night.

Cons: started making weird noises, clicking – eventually would not boot. Then if I turned off and restarted, would seem to be fine. But it wasn’t fine and I had to stop relying on it for backups after a little over a year in service. Not good. Refurb on a hard drive is a misnomer. If it doesn’t work for the first customer, it won’t work for the next customer.

Pros: The only pro it has that it was not expensive. I really have nothing against refurbished products. I just wished they would (Western Digital) more completely test their refurbs before releasing them to the general public.

Cons: This drive seemed weird from day one. It didn’t want to be recognized by Windows while installing Vista. So I put it in an external drive and was able to format it there. I used it as a storage device for a few weeks. Files become corrupt for really no reason an that leads me to believe this one is toast. I have the 1 year extended warranty, so I will have to get the RMA thing going this week.

Overall Review: I am leaning towards spending more and buying only brand new drives going forward. I hate the hassle of RMA etc.

Pros: It works and it installed quickly.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Haven’t had it for too long so it could die at any moment. HD Sentinel says it’s good to go. I’ve got it loaded into a media center in my living room. Doesn’t run too hot either.

Pros: Tested hdd twice and came back error free. Shows up fine in windows.

Cons: None yet

Pros: low heat and its fast!

Cons: none

Overall Review: if you need a great drive and low heat for your laptop this is the one to get, mine was recertified so it was still new.

Pros: Western Digital usually a good product

Cons: Had it since March it just failed end of April.

Overall Review: It was a refurbished hard drive and certified but I’ve always thought it not wise to buy critical products refurbished. Well I did and look what it got me. Be careful how you buy. Had good experiences from newegg till now. Threw my money out the door on this one. It went over the thirty day period.

Pros: And it got into my hands in less than 24 hours. I’m using this to replace an original 250 GB BEKT drive I bought in 2008, I wasn’t sure if that particular drive was 10,000 RPM or 7200 RPM. Either way, that drive was relatively rapid and so is this. I am in the process of duping the operating system from the old one to the new one, and it is going very fast.

This is why I usually choose Western Digital, even WD refurbished drives, basically my view of Western Digital drives is as so: if it doesn’t crash within the first two months of use, then it will be a good drive and it will last a good long time. And even when they go bad they always seem to give you enough time to copy it, before the drive is irrecoverable. But my original BEKT Drive was showing random Sector 0 failures, so I really needed to copy this quickly I didn’t have enough time to save up enough money to buy a better drive or a non-refurbished model. The rest of the drive seems to have no errors on it, otherwise minitool partition wizard would have choked within the first minute of the duplicating process. But all of my disk checking programs including GWscan and WDDiag, tell me that this new drive is perfectly fine. The next step is after the duplication is finished I will pull it up in perfect desk and check the power-on hours, which will tell me how long this drive has been in use because that value is accumulative even with a refurbished drive.

The drive came to me in less than 24 hours, and it was properly boxed and wrapped and it was in a shockproof bubble wrap. Some other people have said that they got their drives from this company not properly wrapped, I don’t believe that. This company appears to be highly experienced with refurbished drives, and it also appears that there is a RMA in case this drive goes out within a certain period of time which I will use if in fact that happens. But I understand as a refurbished drive there are serious risks but I generally trust most companies that I deal with that make refurbished drives, and I stick to Seagate and western digital maybe sometimes a Hitachi drive now and then. Because I can’t afford to dish out a lot of money for brand-new hard drives when my drives crash with no warning.

My copy procedure just finished, the drive mounted and now I’m checking the copied files and found a couple of cross-linked files but that was due to errors on the original drive. Exactly what I expected. No bad sectors were found during my initial scan.

Cons: There was one issue, the drive was shipped with a password encrypted into it. Fortunately I was able to remove that in my laptop bios. The drive was locked out even after I had duplicated my original drive onto it, and it would not boot until I had removed the password. Please don’t send me anymore of these with passwords, OK?

Overall Review: This is the first time I’ve gotten a drive from this company, if this drive continues to work well I will buy others. Performance wise this drive seems to be as good as the original was when that one was brand-new

Pros: I purchased this HD for our xbox 360. It worked perfectly, flashing with ease.

Cons: It did not come with a key to the universe.

Overall Review: Western Digital drives are the only drives I use or recommend. I still have a 400mb (yes that is megabyte not gigabyte) western digital drive that works, and still reads the data on it from 1998. That says a lot about WD reliability.