WD AV-GP Enterprise 2 TB 3.5-inch SATA Internal Hard Drive

I bought one of these drives about a year ago and it has been rock solid the whole time, it is really quick for a "green" class of drive and can sustain over 110MB/s sequential reads and writes and is a supremely quiet piece of kit, and has performed perfectly as a NAS/HTPC drive, and I have bought 2 more to go into a raid5 array. However, it has an issue that desktop users should be acutely aware of, the drive has limited/non existent ecc protection, so if a write is corrupted, the drive will simply not correct the damaged data and will continue on as though there isn't a problem, the reason for this is because the drive is meant for DVR/Surveillance usage rather than data storage for a desktop, and in those cases a few incorrect pixels are more acceptable than dropped and missing frames in recorded video and so to prevent missing frames the drive will deliberately ignore errors in favour of capturing everything being sent to it. If you're planning on using it in a NAS device like I am, it is vital that you carefully monitor S.M.A.R.T. for read/write errors and if you're using Linux like I am then set up a cron job to run the scrub command on the drive periodically just to be sure that errors don't corrupt your data, if you don't know what those things mean then buy a WD green for mass storage or a WD Red for NAS use unless you are happy to live with the risks that a lack of ecc creates. Aside from that, the drive is excellent and well worth the money, and if you can work around the potential issue or you are planning on using the drive for a Sky+ HD box upgrade then I highly recommend it.

Perfect

I'm not even going to take it out of the antistatic bag... the manufacture date is 30 Jun 2016... almost 10 years old!!!! This is a dinosaur in the HDD world. No indication of how old this is on item description before purchase - 1, 2, year ok, but 10 year?!!! This is a very expensive paperweight. If it even works it will surely die soon or already has many dead sectors.

Great HD, for internal or external (backup/storage) use. Can be formated for use with any system (Linux, Mac, Windows). Will last for ages if not droped or hit with a hammer (;-))

Fine no problems

I have been looking for an identical, other than capacity, Internal Hard Drive to upgrade my new 2020 TV Personal Video Recorder (PVR) from 1Tb or 2Tb - and this is it. The specification of this HD is EXACTLY the same as the one supplied in the PVR , Western Digital /Enterprise/SATA/AVGP WD(10) EURX and designed for 24/7 runnning in a PVR. Like the HD it replaced it is totally silent In running, only just mildly luke warm to touch and very easy to replace. Literally slide in slide out and a HD format through the PVRs software and off you go with twice the capacity at minimal cost and a spare 1Tb to use in a PC.. All of this only makes sense if the correctly specc’d HD is used at a good price and here I can highly recommend WEB-NF as the supplier. Despite being outside the UK (Germany) the HD arrived via DHL well packaged just four days later - great ! Western Digital PVR HD itself was absolutely brand new in a factory sealed static bag — HD manufactured only 3 months ago and having registered it using its serial number on the WD support website comes with a full 3 year warranty. If you want to double the capacity of your PVR at minimal cost then both the HD itself and the Supplier - WEB-NF — highly recommended !

If you need good Hard Drives these are brilliant , all ready to fit which is easy, two connections then clips into the cage, they are robust and well made and the storage capacity it great plenty of room for all those photos and games once you have your software loaded you are away, highly recommended.

After knocking my external hard drive off the desk, I was looking for a replacement for the one that didn't bounce. I saw the reviews and read all the 1, 2, 3 star ones and thought well I will try as I am a pensioner on a budget. I was pleasantly surprised when it arrived, apart form the packaging, bubble wrap in an envelope! I opened it and found a nice new 2tb hard drive, no marks, by the looks of it never been used, so thought bonus. I installed it in to the enclosure, ran a few set up programs I have, partitioned it into 5 drives and am very happy with a nice, quiet, full working 2 2tb hard drive, am I glad I ignored the other reviews ? Yes, I would buy again and probably will as I have an old PC I am getting back up and running.