Why are WD Blue HDD's so popular? Western Digital Blue 1TB Review

The WD Blue 1TB HDD is a massively popular hard drive on many online retailers. The question is, are they worth buying in 2019? In this video, we answer that question and back it up with some performance testing data vs SSD's and NVME SSD's.

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[footofafish]

man I'm still impressed with the quality of your videos I'm surprised you don't have more subscribers

[ZBTEproductions]

I've had the same WD Blue in my machine for almost a decade now. It's still chugging along. They're amazing value

[videocreation]

Great video, Myself using WD Blue 500gb HD several of them bought on eBay second hand due to being on a tight budget .They are really good drives and suits my needs. Did have just the one large drive until it failed and lost most of my work. Now i just buy several cheap drives these days and double up important files and haven't lost anything to date . Learnt the hard way. Trying to buy a hard drive rack so its like a book shelf is imposable so going to make one out of wood as my collection of drives is starting to grow. The main thing is they perform well and my data is safe. Use to do all my editing on ssd until they started to slow down due to the constant writing 4k files worn them out. Now only use the ssd for the os and the software, the rest is mechanical drives

[fcojeria]

I have bought 4 or 5 of this WD model from different customers and all of them have been good so far for 4 years ago

[beaut-ful-d-saster]

I have an older 1 tb wd blue that only just now is starting to go downhill... almost 11 years of solid service. Yeah okay, my games don't load lightning fast but I got years and years of gaming out of mine. I'm sad to see it go downhill.

[CloudSurfer.]

you can actually get 2 tb for about the same price you stated for 1tb in this video now, id really recommend them for budget gamers, ive had one of these and been running games on it for years now with no problems

[PartTimeLaowai]

Bought my WD Blue 1TB in July 2018. Four years later (August 2022) it's still going strong, despite an average daily 8hrs+ of thrashing (due to constant pagefile writes from using a Win 7 system limited to 4GB of RAM) Not sure if I've just been lucky, but either way I tip my hat to the engineers at WD 👍

[kevinneville]

I currently have a 1tb WD black and it's pretty good, load time is pretty quickish, download is quick

[jjgoodman]

Excellent video thank you, I was looking for a reliable hard drive after hearing about seagate's constantly failing and I think I'll pick one of these up

[TheNutshaq]

I remember back when this was the only drive that you could find in budget builds. Good times

[josuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu]

obviously ssd are faster but i was really waiting for a real review

[kamichikora]

I'm a new fan. Great content. Why did I not know about this Chanel a long time ago

[leoguillen]

Could you do a tour of your whole house when you finish moving everything 😁. (I’m curious I wanna SEE IT ALL)

[redobot]

3 of my Seagate fails, but my wd blue still holds after years

[alexclaudiu]

In 5 years I changed 3 Western Digital Green and Blue 1 tb Hdds used in a surveillance system with a low recording rate and every time the electronic part it broken and besides that, the pins on the motherboard plug with plug from the turntables oxidizes. I have 3 retro PCs with Western Digital HDDs from 25, 20 and 15 years ago and they are still perfect.

[slumy]

lets just say my 2006 western blue hdd gets the job done at gaming daily in 2020 but sadly is showing signs of life with programs white screening (loading error) so I have to constantly open close reopen to work. As for barricuda hard drives, 3 in a 21 month span of use that constantly fail, stop working.

[joetylerdale]

I put together a FreeNASS system with 2 WD Blue 4Tb (Amazon $89 each), and mirror them for important video clips and finished videos. Honestly, a No-Brainer on the cheap! Great vid and you nailed why one would use them. I saved enough money to get a rad video card!

[rathinaselvamr]

Greattt vid, love too see your video...you deserve better

[mikesunboxing]

liked subbed and keeping an eye on your channel. Looks like you are going places my friend.

[Spacemuffin]

Have one one these and it’s from fall 2009. Haven’t used it since early 2019 but it still works. It’s not 1 TB it’s instead 320 GB HDD.