Relatively slow small files performance counts against the Caviar Blue 1TB, leaving little reason to buy it unless you don't care about this or can find it cheaper.

All the space I need, but you can really hear it when it's working

Fast drive and cheap, no problems with speed. Does get a little loud in an open case although but can only hear it when you are trying to.

We all know that Western Digital these days are more reliable than Seagate, I've read that this drive is noisy which isn't true, it makes less of that crackling noise than any others unless pushed to its extreme and even then with my side case off its far less noisy than my Barracuda. If you are looking for a new HDD don't look any further than Western Digital.

It gets the job done.

A large storage space at a cheap price with (what seems) comparable speeds to that of a SSD

Had no problems with it. Good price, good quality hard drive :)

Very happy with the performance

Good, reliable drive. Thats all you need to know.

Good hard drive to start your gaming pc with