

Good speed.

2.5" 500gb HD. fast shipping. everything was perfect. works like it should. migrated my system to it and booted right up. no issues

Loads fast, runs quiet, doesnt seem to have any freeze ups or lag loading any of the data on the console.

Very good price per GB for the 2.5" form factor compared to other drives on the market. Drive was shipped in a very solid yet impact absorbing air pack to prevent any damage. The drive height is very thin at 7mm and very light compared to my 7 year old 2.5" seagate drive. The drive is also very quiet compared to my older drive, its almost silent to the point I don't even know if its on or not. I used this drive as an external USB drive using a 2.5" USB enclosure. I did have to format, partition, and initialize the drive first in Windows Disk Management before the device would show up in Explorer. After that it was simple plug and play for the drive now. Writing to the drive I got an an average of about 22MB/s for a 3GB file. Read speed was about 31MB/s. This was done on the USB 2.0 standard, so USB 3.0 should be alot better.

Hard disk is noticeable faster than regular hard disks. Installed Win 8.1 and the combination is one really fast boot up time. This type of disk is a great solution for those who do not want to go for a full SSD but want to have the best of both worlds.

works like it should so far

cheep & reliable

Does have characteristics to having SSD-like performance (random access read time - 4KB @ ~.27ms, random access write time - 4KB @ ~.70ms, 'large' SSD for caching most accessed files, etc.) .7mm height

Just got this today and the switch to my PS4 went great. No issues. If anyone is thinking of upgrading there PS4 this is a great deal for the space you get.

Wow this drive is thin. It registers in at only 7mm in height, by far the smallest 2.5” drive I have come across. This will fit easily in ultrabooks. This may not fit as well in regular laptop drives, it will screw into the cage, but it will have some wiggle room. Either way make sure you intend on getting such a small drive from the beginning. I used the Seagate Disk Wizard tool to copy my OS install onto this HDD. It was a very easy process (see other thoughts). This drive runs very well, I did not hear any abnormal noises either. Fairly quick response (I have SSDs on both laptop and desktop so it’s not a fair comparison). I used HD Tune Pro v2.55 to benchmark this drive. Read speeds average out at around 136Mbps, write speeds slightly slower at 124Mbps and the access time was around 15ms. No bad sectors out of the box and no abnormal SMART readings

Item was in stock and ready to ship immediately.

Everything!! I ordered an SSA drive in error. I wanted an SATA. I contacted E.O.L. Tech and explained. They immediately sent me what I really wanted and trusted I would return the one I bought (which I did). The replacement was done at no charge. People list this are very few and far between.


Bought to upgrade workstation laptop, easy to install and worked after formatting. Copied a couple of large files and the drive was fast

Ordered this for my brothers laptop because I use WD Black in my builds. I received it with 2 days of purchase date. Works great, I always feel safe with WD Black hard drives due to the fact I've never had one to crash. Although I've had other brands to crash.

Fits well in tight space (7mm thin) Great performance

7200 RPM 500GB of space Extremely quiet Quite a bit snappier then the old 5400RPM drive I used to have in this old laptop

No problems sliding this new drive in place of the laptop's old smaller drive. A faster spinning drive makes the laptop more snappy. Not any noisier than the old slower drive (can't hear a difference). Installation went flawless: No physical size or connector differences between this new WDC drive to the old HGST (Hitachi) for the old drive.

Just installed this drive in my PS3, took a little longer than i had hoped, but it shows up fine. Registers 931 GB. Have had no trouble with it so far and everything is loading a bit quicker than it did before. Seems to be quieter than the drive the system came with.