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.

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.

Bought for upgrading a Sky+ HD box, Pace model. Box runs much better now (it was constantly crashing, locking up and freezing requiring it to be unplugged every few days) with the new drive and with several pages of recordings so far, the free space is still in the 90% range. Some reviewers have stated they received second had drives, mine came in a fully sealed manufacturers box and has worked flawlessly. Instructions for swapping the drives are easily found online. Formatted drive using ExPVR which is available online too but BE WARNED!! my anti virus registered ExPVR as malicious software. The ExPVR website says this will happen and to just ignore the warnings, however it turns out that the software is an invasive little piece of you know what that, while it worked and did format my drive to the required Sky+ format and transfer some of my wanted recording from old to new drive, it is extremely hard to uninstall from your PC afterwards. I used the list of files found here http://www.advanceduninstaller.com/ExPVR-04f20f216db39824c5482ff8aaae906d-application.htm to root it out and remove its after effects.

Just awful, the drive looked new when it arrived, and I put it in my PC and got on with it. Used it mostly for clearing space and backing up. After just five weeks of use the hard drive failed, so this was a complete waste of time. Checked the date on the hard drive and the date reads December 2015. Almost eight years old now in 2023, and probably had seen a life time of use before I received it.

The drive works fine in my nas box (even though its not specifically a nas hard drive).I was a little disappointed that the date of manufacture shows Feb 2016 (it is now June 2022) so its already 6 years old. I also checked the warranty status on the Western Digital website and it shows as out of warranty, also disappointing as I have purchased it as a brand new drive.Therefore I took out the extended 4 year warranty which at £2.99 is very good value.Overall a very good drive at the price and still good value even with the extra cost of the warranty.

This was to replace a drive in an old system. Zero compatibility issues despite having twice the capacity.

Western Digital is a name to trust. Obviously you know it's going to be good quality and durable. Have put this into my NVR and powers up ok.Great value for money and definitely recommend.

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 !

Excellent Product

HDD arrived defect became non functioning after format and partitioning !The price (44 Euro) should have been a warning i guess.Returned the disc 12 days ago and payed 11.40 Euro post transport andthey still have received nothing?? So I'm out of 55 Euro ?If so than I'm done with AMAZON !!

Prompte Lieferung, und günstiges Angebot von Amazon. Die Festplatten arbeiten zuverlässig.

Aunque Western Digital (WD) no se caracteriza por la claridad en sus manuales, ni documentación (olvidate de encontrar nada en castellano), tengo que reconocer que los discos duros me aportan más confianza que los de la otra marca líder "Puerta del mar" (SG) :-). Tengo varios de WD y varios de SG, y hasta ahora los WD no me han fallado nunca. Los de SG sí.

Soddisfacente!!!