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.

Just what you need to begin with, or for a budget build. Relatively quiet, decent capacity, decent price.

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

Hard drive is perfect for general storage and mightyape delivered blazing fast. :)

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.

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

Great quality hard drives, and hasn't had a single fault

I have three of these in Raid 5. & can barely hear them when they are running.

Good component for the price

I installed this into my computer and the first thing my wife said was " thats quiet, you can put the cover back on now." Well done Mighty Ape. A great product and price and the overnight delivery to a rural address was a nice surprise.