I would happily pay just a little more for the Amazon card outer of old or for some of that foam. (69) WD Black 1TB Hard Drive - 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 2.5 Inch - WD10SPSX. Luckily the drive doesn't seem to have suffered but it caused me great concern when it arrived. WD Black 10TB Performance Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s 256MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD101FZBX. Mine came in an OEM cardboard box - no Amazon outer at all - held in place within the box by two rigid plastic inserts. ![]() It wasn't the lovely foam-padded box in the product photos. The only bad thing about this purchase was the packaging. It doesn't need it but will benefit from it. My personal advice would be to use some kind of rubber washer mountings in your case just to insulate the drive further. In operation the drive is as quiet as the "Blue" and once up to operating speed can rarely be heard. Over time too much heat kills electronics so this is good. The previous "Blue" ran at an average 29-30c whereas the "Black" is running at about 26c. An added bonus is that it also runs more coolly. ![]() It features double the processing power on the built-in controller and is consequently much quicker to grab and write data. I replaced a "Blue Caviar" drive with this item which is the faster "Black". They are generally quiet and reliable, certainly I have never had one fail and indeed one I own is now a grand 9 years old and still going strong (obviously no sensitive data stored on it any more!) I've had many makes of hard drive over the years but seem to migrate towards Western Digital as a preference. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. ![]() We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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