💾 WD Black 160GB Performance Mobile HDD - Fast 7200 RPM SATA 6 Gb/s - 2.5 Inch SATA Hard Drive with 16MB Cache - WD1600BEKX Review

High quality laptop hard drive form factor 2.5. This unit also revs faster than the factory Toshiba that failed. After the installation I had to change the disk partitions. I found AOMEI Partition Assistant (http://www.aomeitech.com/aomei-partition-assistant.html) to be the best for repartitioning a hard drive. It was easy, fast and free. You need such software when you want to merge two different partitions into one and they are not adjacent but separated by partition like system or recovery…

February 2016 Hotfix: On another computer (HP dl360p g6) and with another SATA controller, this drive works without errors (no NCQ). In my previous review, the SATA controller and hard drive combo didn't work. The Seagate drive worked fine with this controller, so I'm upgrading this drive to four stars. ############# ##################################### ################################################# # ################# or NCQ must be disabled, otherwise this drive will cause many errors…

I always recommend WD Black drives for desktop replacements. I have replaced many laptop hard drives in laptops for friends and clients. Due to the heat generated in laptops, it's not uncommon for drives to only last 2 or 3 years. Out of the last 10 hard drives I've replaced, none were Western Digital. Another note: Manufacturers use the cheapest drives, which are also the slowest. If you want to keep your laptop and data longer than 2 years, install a WD Black drive. Transfer speeds are almost

I bought this disc to use with my XBOX 360. Using HDDHACKR 1.40 I successfully modified the disc and was also able to restore the original XBOX emulator from my old disc. I set everything up once, which took about 15 minutes total. The drive was immediately recognized by the Xbox which gave me 460GB after formatting. After that I transferred 200GB of data from my old 250GB drive to it using an XBOX transfer cable. The drive is getting hot in the Xbox. However, this can be remedied with an…

I got this after replacing the HGST Travel Star HD I bought here at Revain (to replace my standard hard drive), I broke after about 4 months. There are no complaints yet. It seems to run a little quieter than the previous one, and I've noticed that my Macbook Pro (circa 2009) doesn't heat up as quickly or as often as it used to. I hope this will stand the test of time. Don't forget to back up your torrent movies, cat pictures, selfies and other important data as often as possible. You never…

My laptop came with a Seagate Momentus Thin 500GB 5400RPM hard drive. I do web development on my laptop, so I often have a database server running. The bottleneck for databases is a slow drive, and I found that a 5400 rpm drive made my system quite slow when I had a full development environment, so I decided to switch to a 7200 rpm drive. As a longtime Western Digital user, this disc was my first choice. It turns out that this drive is 9.5mm thick, while the Seagate Momentus Thin (now called…

I just installed the drive in my early 2011 13 inch MacBook Pro. It was easy to install and works great. Installation is difficult due to the Apple Store that didn't have an operating system available to download and install. Okay, the thing is, I had today's backup of an old Time Machine hard drive. Time Machine installed my operating system and files onto the new drive with no problems. Everything is done and everything is fine.