Why are WD Blue HDD's so popular? Western Digital Blue 1TB Review
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- The WD Blue 1TB HDD is a massively popular hard drive on many online retailers. The question is, are they worth buying in 2019? In this video, we answer that question and back it up with some performance testing data vs SSD's and NVME SSD's.
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man I'm still impressed with the quality of your videos I'm surprised you don't have more subscribers
Thanks man!
This so how it is when u buy all the good equipment before u do anything
@@ECPUz gonna get this tommorw for my ps3 slim! => only $47 (might get a $5 2 year replacement plan) also ssd dez still cost a lot right?
Great video ,Myself using WD Blue 500gb HD several of them bought on eBay second hand due to being on a tight budget .They are really good drives and suits my needs. Did have just the one large drive until it failed and lost most of my work. Now i just buy several cheap drives these days and double up important files and haven't lost anything to date . Learnt the hard way. Trying to buy a hard drive rack so its like a book shelf is imposable so going to make one out of wood as my collection of drives is starting to grow. The main thing is they perform well and my data is safe. Use to do all my editing on ssd until they started to slow down due to the constant writing 4k files worn them out. Now only use the ssd for the os and the software, the rest is mechanical drives
Wd blue 6tb made a beep a few days and now dead. IM gonna try that route buying a few
I have an older 1 tb wd blue that only just now is starting to go downhill... almost 11 years of solid service. Yeah okay, my games don't load lightning fast but I got years and years of gaming out of mine. I'm sad to see it go downhill.
Dude its 11 years, meanwhile the warranty is only 2 years. You already got so much worth from that thing. One of my 500gb wd blue is becoming real bad and showing really low health percentage on apps like hd sentinel so i really consider buying this again, but i still wondering wether i should go for ssd or this one.
I've had the same WD Blue in my machine for almost a decade now. It's still chugging along. They're amazing value
$70 for 4TB, so should I get it it’s actually good ?
@@itsyoboig3325 Yea, if you need storage for games or movies or whatever, it's insanely good value. I have a Seagate 4tb drive and that's been serving me well too
My segate 500gb hdd still working after 10years. Now getting some sound but everything is ok in smart test.
Bought my WD Blue 1TB in July 2018. Four years later (August 2022) it's still going strong, despite an average daily 8hrs+ of thrashing (due to constant pagefile writes from using a Win 7 system limited to 4GB of RAM) Not sure if I've just been lucky, but either way I tip my hat to the engineers at WD 👍
My segate 500gb hdd still working after 10years. Now getting some sound but everything is ok in smart test.
Most underrated youtuber ever!
I have bought 4 or 5 of this WD model from different customers and all of them have been good so far for 4 years ago
I currently have a 1tb WD black and it's pretty good, load time is pretty quickish, download is quick
Just got a 4tb WD Black and I want to shoot the damn HDD because of the constant thumping noises it makes (which are normal apparently)
@@recklesflam1ngo968 The black version is heavier, stronger and louder. annoying noise but you know its the sound of a real hard disk, not a low pitch cinderella xD
@@adrenframes1001 Yeah I returned it after a few days and got a WD Blue lmao
Excellent video thank you, I was looking for a reliable hard drive after hearing about seagate's constantly failing and I think I'll pick one of these up
Is it good
@@hanadsiad8641 NO
Could you do a tour of your whole house when you finish moving everything 😁. (I’m curious I wanna SEE IT ALL)
I could do that once I'm all settled and I get paint on the walls in the rest of the house lol
In 5 years I changed 3 Western Digital Green and Blue 1 tb Hdds used in a surveillance system with a low recording rate and every time the electronic part it broken and besides that, the pins on the motherboard plug with plug from the turntables oxidizes. I have 3 retro PCs with Western Digital HDDs from 25, 20 and 15 years ago and they are still perfect.
I remember back when this was the only drive that you could find in budget builds. Good times
Now which to buy?
@@HassanKhan-bz9fb m.2 drives have gotten so cheap now, you can pretty much use whatever you want that fits your needs in terms of storage. SSDs are even cheaper, you can get some for the same price as a HDD. The WD Blue SN750 is a good priced M.2 that’s 1tb
@@TheNutshaq Gigabyte H610M H DDR4 MATX LGA1700 Motherboard - rm 419
INTEL CORE i5 12400f PROCESSOR - rm 799
WD Caviar Blue 3.5 1TB 7200RPM SATA HDD - rm 199
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB GDDR6 V2 - rm 2199
AIGO GP 650W 80+ BRONZE POWER SUPPLY - rm 189
V-COLOR Skywalker Plus 16GB (8GBx2) 3200MHz DDR4 U-DIMM RGB RAM (Silver Heatsink) - rm 339
KINGSTON NV1 M.2 2280 NVMe 500GB - 2100MB/s - rm 195
INVASION C360 CASING - rm 120
Cooler master set - rm 400
Neotiz aqueila gaming monitor - 799 rm
Total=5658 rm
@@TheNutshaq is it fine?
@@HassanKhan-bz9fb yeah everything looks fine to me
obviously ssd are faster but i was really waiting for a real review
you can actually get 2 tb for about the same price you stated for 1tb in this video now, id really recommend them for budget gamers, ive had one of these and been running games on it for years now with no problems
Thicboi: ya especially now since they also make Sata ssd and nvme drives, so you could buy a 1TB WD Blue SSD for only 79 as a boot drive, or you could get a 500gb WD Blue NVME drive for $44 dollars and pair either one with a 1 or 2 TB WD Blue HDD for $49, and they'd work well together since they all come from the same place. that's how much it cost for a 2TB. id have to go back and check the price to be sure, but they compete with Seagate with there 1 and 2 TB drives, and price is $49. so you know there gonna be competitive. all i know is, i remember a time when SSD's were expensive, the cheapest you could get back in 2013 was a 128gb and they usually average around $89 dollars, and that was from budget brands. you weren't getting a Samsung SSD back then less than $99. that was expensive for a small amount of storage, but people used them as boot drives for years because you couldn't do much else with it. i remember watching alot of budget build videos back then, and they would throw in a 256gb or recommend a 500gb instead of a HDD and say you, it's better to get this now and you could get an extra 1TB drive later. but the problem was, most people couldn't afford to go that route, speed don't mean much if a quarter of the drive uses up space for the entire Windows operating system and everything that comes with it. so alot of times it was easier to get a 1TB WD Blue HDD for $79 or $89 whatever the price was then, technology is always expensive in the beginning, but who would ever thought we'd see a 500gb SSD for $59 dollars or less, let alone a 1TB SSD for $89, thanks to the birth of NVME that's what made it all possible. something a little more advanced caused the other to get cheaper, and now you can get budget nvme drives thanks to Gen 4 being the newest. so most Gen 3 nvme drives now are pretty affordable, that's provided you stick around the 500gb range. once you go up to 1TB that's where things change, but all this competition is making things easier for the consumer. im glad hard drives are still around, because the reliability atleast in Western Digitals case are second to none.
lets just say my 2006 western blue hdd gets the job done at gaming daily in 2020 but sadly is showing signs of life with programs white screening (loading error) so I have to constantly open close reopen to work. As for barricuda hard drives, 3 in a 21 month span of use that constantly fail, stop working.
I'm a new fan. Great content. Why did I not know about this Chanel a long time ago
3 of my Seagate fails, but my wd blue still holds after years
i use seagate baracuda it last only 2 and half year, then i use wd blue still rocking for 8 years.
WD quality was good about 10 years ago. I have here 2/2 died WD drives. Both were in middle range quality and they died in 3-4 years. So forget WD drives. WD red has serious problems, users can't use in raid with a NAS HDD. "GJ" WD!
I baught mine in 2014 still works like a new one.
Have one one these and it’s from fall 2009. Haven’t used it since early 2019 but it still works. It’s not 1 TB it’s instead 320 GB HDD.
liked subbed and keeping an eye on your channel. Looks like you are going places my friend.
Thanks man. Subbed back :)
@@ECPUz Thanks appreciate it! Enjoy your content, very slick and well edited. Keep up the hard work
Greattt vid, love too see your video...you deserve better
I put together a FreeNASS system with 2 WD Blue 4Tb (Amazon $89 each), and mirror them for important video clips and finished videos. Honestly, a No-Brainer on the cheap! Great vid and you nailed why one would use them. I saved enough money to get a rad video card!
After a recent data loss I'm planning on a simple solution consisting of 2 1TB WD Blue drives. What USB 3+ enclosure would you recommend? I have not decided yet whether it should be a single drive or a dual drive dock.
What simple solution are you planning? there are many different types, you must decide what you wan't/need and go from there. What kind of storage was used before, before data loss happened? if your data is lost you most likely had no backup for your system which was just a external hdd, so no safety at all (like mirroring, raid, ...), right? what do you mean with usb enclousure and drive dock? An usb 3 enclousure is basically nothing else than a SATA to USB adapter with an enclousure to Insert your disk. I believe you are looking for something esle, e.g. a usb raid enclousure, maybe a NAS or other network storage!? No matter what you do be sure to have a backup storage for it. maybe a offline, off-site data storage (tape drive preferred!) or a cloud solution. i am no big fan of the second but if you know your data will be safe there a cloud storage is most likely the best, simplest and cheapest solution comparing to the cost of any hardware storage. buy the hardware, set it al up to your needs, always have an eye in it, repair if possible, .... that's more like an hobby but if done right you got something Real nice, at least for the next 1-2 years. 😄😉
I have an Nvme SSD in my PC and a western digital 1TB 2.5 inch hard drive that I used to boot from. The 1TB drive, which I use to store my personal data on, is still going 4 years after its manufacture date (June 2018). I plan to purchase a 2TB drive in a 2.5 inch form factor as my PC can’t accept 3.5 inch drives and put a copy of the data on the 1TB drive so that when the 1TB drive fails, I can simply take out the 1TB drive and put in the 2TB one. I will use western digital drives cause I think they’re pretty reliable.
I got the 500gb version for 12.65 dollars and its damn amazing
A ssd costs 3 times the cost of a hdd and i have to get new ram new mobo new processor to work with a nvme ssd. So no thank u i will buy a hdd instead.
I have a one tb and a two tb wd blue drives. These drives are amazing. 1 tb is going still for more than 4 years and i took 2tb recently because my seagate sky hawk 2tb got dead in just 2.5 years
I like it for moving games around. Put games I’m playing often on ssd and push the rest a hard drive. I’d rather do that than downloading the same game over and over
Given how cheap these are, I might end up buying one as an external hard drive, and just get a seperate enclosure for it. Probably would add up to still being cheaper than a normal external hard drive, and at least I would know which hard drive I have (because all these external ones seem to be generic names with who knows what actual hard drives inside)
can i use this video for footage?
Is it still cool to play game with this hdd? Game nowdays 50-200gb like battlefield,warzone,etc cuz SSD is expensive compare to HDD, sure there are some cheap SSD but HDD still cheaper
i have a western digital blue from 2009 that i just replaced tonight that still works just it started to make some noise when opening folders so i felt ok this drive is SATA 2 300mb and like 13 14 years old time to replace it
Seagate i using only 1 year before failure. WD Blue use for 5 year and more day to go.
my seagate 320gb is older than i5 3570k to be exact i got it in year 2007 so more than 10 years ago and its still works today no issue
@@tsuna111 Wow
but is there a small bad sector? cause 10yrs is a lot
My segate 500gb hdd still working after 10years. Now getting some sound but everything is ok in smart test.
Top notch content my dude!
These hard drives are the best
is it still suitable for gaming pc in 2021
yes!
My wd blue hard-drive is very loud. Should i replace it with a new hard-drive or a ssd
i am having issue with my drive like this. I am concerned it is going to crash. Only have used half of it. I need to replace before it crashes
Amazing vid man
Thanks!
bruh i still use hdd wd blue from 2011 .... NO ISSUES!
i have 1 wd blue but when its starting windows the screen becomes black
Is it okay to put large games eg gta 5 on them
Do you hear them when they only run windows (idle) ?
thanks!!!
could I play older games from around 2005 - 2010 with such a HDD? I have one lying around.
storage doesnt really affect FPS in games just how long it takes to open the game an get from the menu to actually playing
@@rrekaf8568 I was more worried about loading times, but older games are not as demanding as new ones. I think I'll give it a try.
@@katharinamarschall5662 I play new games on hdd and my system is on nvme, it affects loading times but not the FPS. Sometimes I need to wait couple of minutes tho so that might be a deal breaker. But I bought 4tb WD blue 3.5 for 65 bucks new so it’s hard to beat it
"their performance is just fine"
Man, Im on old Western digital that is like 50mb/s and I dont have any loading problems even with most modern games. And those new WDs have like 200mb/s read!
Quality Video
But I use a 512 gb ssd & 2 tb hdd (5400 rpm)
That’s what I’m ordering today. Good combo?
@@chefboyarb 5400rpm is low for today's standards. You want 7200rpm.
Nathan Pickering I figured. Fuck it ig lol. I bought the 2 tb already and it’ll be in tomorrow lol but thx for telling me that I do have a NVMe 500 gb ssd
@@chefboyarb the 7200 rpm is not that good, is better 5400 rpm, believe me
Nice video ❤
Thanks man
great video, but i have a question, if i just want it to store some photos , videos , etc media files to play back on my PC , which one should i buy.? 5400 or 7200 rpm?
Either one is fine, if the price isn’t that different definitely pick 7200 rpm. The only downside of 7200 rpm is the noise (not that much different tho), if not, for media storage 5400 rpm will do just fine.
what about the noise? this one vibrates so loud it rocks my whole case. it works but i can't use it, too annoying.
I really recommend western digital. :)
So, good enough for gaming or no?
Why didnt you test them in RAID0? It takes 5 sec to stripe them in windows.
I have an old computer with a wd10spcx-24hwst0 hard disk drive, it says it is WD Blue SLIM. I want to upgrade to a SSD. What would be an equivalent SSD to replace my old HDD?
I think it's a SATA 2.5", So i would assume any 2.5" should be backwards compatible, but it's the "SLIM" that's throwing me off.
My pc came with one and then like after a year and a half, it just disappeared and idk what happened
Your vid is good man, but from what i read in the comment section, for a quite small channel(considering your subs) you may need to interact with your viewer more to get more subscribers
2022 and we have 3 of these drives in our house 1 is 6-7 years old, 1 is 5-6 years old and the other is 4 years old they are all under daily use since purchase and we've had no issues what so ever and when using them for games the load times are slighty longer vs our ssd's but that only affects launching and load screens and is barely noticable anyway i mean 3x longer than 3 seconds is still only 9 seconds so who cares?
imo hhd are more reliable than ssd because personally ive never had an hdd fail in about 20 years of using them but i have had ssd fail with in 2 years of purchase
id say if these hdd are 2x cheaper then definetly buy these and get an ssd later or get a 120/240gb ssd for boot and programs and just run your games from the hdd, if they are the same price per gb however then it's down to if you want slighty faster load times and no noise vs more reliablity with a slight noise from the platter that you probably wont hear over your fans anyway and can actually be useful in the fact that should you start hearing it over your fans then you know something is wrong and can back up data and replace the drive before it fails, when an ssd goes it just goes no warning your screen just goes black and then it says no bootable device found when you restart it
After 14 months my started to have troubles of writing, the speed reach 4 m/s, what should be above 90m/s, I lost two Photoshop files, corrupted at the recording, so I stopped using this hard drive. So here is the advice: Do not buy the Western Digital Hard Drives if they are OEM version (Licensed to others factories), because Western Digital do not cover guaranties that are the OEM versions. And the quality of theses Licensed versions are not good.
in my opinion wd blue 7200 is almost as good as ssd . except starting computer and load big games . and is 3 - 4 times less money .
i am going to by wd blue hdd 1t in 2021 . i prefer to wait 5 seonds more in loading screen . than pay 3 - 4 times more money on a ssd at the same size .
If you think HDD is almost as good as SSD, you defenedly don't work with image sequences.
dude...always use SSD for OS no point arguing, its not just the start up speed, even your OS cache is there literally EVERYTHING you do is affected
256GB SSD for OS + 2x HDD in raid 0 is how it should be
@@loucipher7782 RAID0 only for data you can loose like games.
@@mikakorhonen5715 sure, important data are logically backed up via cloud or external.
@@loucipher7782 I had RAID0 for 4 drives when I started school 2008. One drive started to fail and I had no place to backup data.
Depends of PCs intended usage. I would build PC with 2 NVMe drives and few 10TB+ HDDs.
Freaking me out watching you balance those drives upright while you wave your hands around while looking at the camera.
I bought a 4tb blue in March this year.... it's already making clicking sounds and when I try to copy to it for back up the transfer rate goes down to 0 kb.... I tried calling them. YOU CAN'T TALK TO A REAL PERSON!! I have bought WD hd's my whole computer life... I just bought a 4 tb black edition from bestbuy... what is this companies problem?? I got a text message for chatting on my phone? Do they realize how freaking small the keyboard on my phone is and what I have to talk about.... crappy poor customer service.
I still use these drive's for video editing rather than wearing out the SSD with continuous writes just redirect the editing software to store on the external drive works perfectly for my 4k video editing.infact just ordered some more used drives from eBay as they are so reliable they tend to just keep going regardless the amount of writes.
SSD learnt the hard way,was using p SSD drives Purley for everything then I had a couple go down and lost all data. Mechanical drive's are so reliable if you treat them gentle will last many years,If they get corrupted or start to fail data is much easier to recover than ssd.Have just sold some old drives back from 2006 that still work fine but the technology at that time with energy and the heat and noise they produce is not good.I would say anything from 2011 onwards will be fine
Got 1 in 2020, and still can't tell the different between the SSD(except for 1~3 sec load time).
Except for booting time and opening heavy apps (like xcode, android studio, adobe suite, AAA games) you wont feel that much difference
just bought one for my pc
Is it good for gaming?
@@IceColdNik I haven't had that long with it, but so far its been great. Good loading times in my games too. I'd say its worth it and the safer option over a seagate
This video is solid but stacking them against any SSDs is pointless. It's pretty much the definition of SSD I use - they are incomparable to HDDs :)
I have a new hard disk like this, and I regulary hear a click like every 1-5 minutes (depends on how activ you use the pc), like you would snip with your fingernails, is this normal?
Probably just the drive recalibrating itself.
brother price of 1tb
What about gaming?
At least it's more reliable than seagate
Is this hard drive good for gaming?
Storage wise yes very much so especially the 1tb 7200rpm one
do i need to buy cable to activate the hard drive
Normally the sata cable (carries data between HDD and motherboard) comes included with your motherboard. The power cable will be included with your PSU or physically attached to the PSU.
Too bad WD doesn't provide a standard SATA power cable (a 25 cent wholesale) with their Drives. Cheap jerks.
Support ps4 ?
where are the fucking har drives for lap tops?
why does this video have dislikes
I'll keep both my WD Green and my Toshiba HDD's.... 👍
don't be salty because you cant afford anything above Green LOL.
Green is the worst type of wd drives
Can you use this hard drive for a ps4
Uhh no...
Yes
Lol you deserve more subs
"AMD Radeon Solid State Drives"!??
Since when did AMD make any type of SSD?
I'm very much bamboozled and flabbergasted.
does this work for ps4?
Get the 2.5” form factor one
Anyone who does not use these drives for storage is just plain dumb. Digital drives are great for those needed programs and OS BUT I've own HDD's that has lasted 10+ years.
I even have a Conner HDD that still works. Digital is nice but not for storage.
raid zero them and test for gaming.
Western digital>seagate
This is not a review.
As of 9/21, Western Digital drives are junk in my book. Had a brand new 2 TB fail 33 days after receipt. Forced to RMA it. Almost a month now and no replacement. Just lies that a replacement will be shipped in two business days. Then you call corporate and they say your RMA # is invalid. going to have to settle for Seagate. At least you get a couple years out of them.
Seagate is worse, most of them are SMR lol
if fail in 33 days warranty will cover it, if its invalid then you must have done something to it its not WD fault they have no reason to deny your warranty claim
@@loucipher7782 They sent a 5400 rpm drive to replace a 7200 rpm drive. No I handled and shipped the drive properly. They are a clown show as far as I'm concerned. 30 years of system building under my belt. I was buying hard drives when a 20 megabyte drive cost $400. They will not ship the proper speed drive and a return label enclosed. I will not return the drive I got until I get the correct drive, period. I will not end up waiting forever for the correct warranty replacement. A Seagate drive that last 2 years is a lot better than a Western Digital that last 33 days! Still better, my last purchase was a crucible ssd. That would have been a Western digital if it wasn't for this warranty fiasco. Also my future sd cards will be Samsung not Sandisk, which is owned by Western digital. The bitter taste of poor quality lingers long after the sweet taste of low price dissipates!
R u paid by wd 🤨
Ever heard of durability?
Love FROM KHALASTAN
because of the feelings in your leggs. I hate ssd, it's as if you were crippled.
i love you man
Betterthen shitgate
1.5 years is nothing....i have drives that are 10+ years old I would expect these to last as long
Don't. Average drives barely last past the warranty period these days.
Of course I absolutely hammer my drives daily, so I'm not an average consumer.
@Dalle Smalhals oh, thanks, now I'm thinking about dip switches and vl-bus again.
@Dalle Smalhals I never had any luck with those things.
Every one I ever bought never worked.
Too bad I retired all my ide drives to the gun range years ago.
@Dalle Smalhals lol
Nobody cares..waste topic
WD blue is infamous for it's tendancy to fail. I'm writing this on a failing secondary WD blue I had for 3 months as opposed to my seagate which holds my primary OS for a reason. get anything but a WD blue
I have a 500gb WD blue with over 44000 power-on hours. Zero reading/writing problems.
@@unkind78 just shows their quality control standards... or the lack of them
Is seagate good? I see horrible reviews.
@@afrasidiq9160 i had luck with it. any higher end drive should be good.
can i use this video for footage?