The HDD delivered is a defective one (manufacturing) and flipkart has no return policy. Total nonsense. Even I spoke to WD customer care and they confirmed that the dealer that sold the item can replace the defective piece with a new one. Yet flipkart wont return as if Flipkart has to make the replacement from their pocket. To make it clear WD will replace HDD ONLY to the dealer, and as I purchased through Flipkart, they can easily do the replacement process. This is clearly customer harassment from flipkart. I will never buy any electronics from Flipkart and spread the message among known ones.

FLIPKART has a supersonic delivery speed, got it delivered within 2 days after placing the order. 1) Cant say the same about other cities but if you are living in Mumbai, Dont even bother going to markets like Lamington Road (L.R.) n others. When i went to check the prices of this HDD in L.R. I observed that the lowest was around Rs4250. So On FK, Its Definitely a Steal. 2) Coming to the HDD i was very concerned before puting the order for this HDD as they can easily get damaged during the transport and also i had read the reviews of people about the HDD's they recieved were defective or damaged. But i'm glad to say that the HDD which i recieved was in TOP NOTCH CONDITION. It was wrapped in nearly 2 meters of Bubble Wrap & was surrounded by Air Filled Bags. I had called the FK customer care & had told them to wrap the HDD in tons of bubble wrap, & i guess they listened :P. So even you can do the Same. 3)Now this is the main problem, when you recieve this HDD from FlipKart, THE SATA CABLE (cable connecting HDD to the motherboard) DOESNT COME ALONG WITH IT. So chances are you will have to buy it & will end up goin to the market anyway. OR you can just borrow it temporarily from a friend, never to return it (as i did :P). 4) Another important thing is that if this will be your secondary HDD and you connect it to the PC, chances are that your PC will not start (will not even show the bios). Dont worry there is nothing wrong with the 2ary HDD. That is bcoz your PC is somehow detecting your 2ary HDD as your primary one and trying to boot the OS from it. Just disconnect your 2ary HDD (now your PC will boot), Go to BIOS Settings and make your primary HDD as your "Primary Boot Device" & delete another boot device options. Now connect your 2ary HDD and start your PC and you are done. Now your PC will start, meaning your 2ary HDD is detected. 5) The Space Of the HDD will not be shown in "My Computer" as it is still unallocated space. In this case, "Right Click" on "My Computer" icon, Click On "Manage", & then go to "Disc Management". In Disk Management, "Right Click" on the unallocated space of the HDD and here you can make drives of specific sizes. In this HDD, I got a total space of 932GB so i divided into 4 drives of 233GB each. Thats it, now the drives you created can be seen in "My Computer". I wrote this much big of a review bcoz i dont want others buying this HDD to go through the hectic experience that i went through :-) :-). Cheers and enjoy your new 1 TB HDD :-).

Drive is good and VFM no doubt but packaging was worst from flipkart this time.Already called and insisted to pack in thermocol with bubble wrap but still they just rolled a single layer of bubble wrap and packed in a box and sent me.One simple advice to flipkart hard disk and many more computer components are really sensitive parts learn to pack them.It would save you from taking back the item which comes under your 30 days replacement warranty as all these sensitive components are damaged only during shipping.Leaving 3 stars just for the pathetic packaging that too even after insisting to pack the drive properly!

Western Digital now owns Hitachi GST which is a good thing for technology enthusiasts. Why ? Partly because of reliability that WD Hard drives have always been known for and partly because of research which Hitachi has put in last couple of decades in storage sector. The result is this really affordable Single Platter Drive which results in more space per platter due to increased efficiency in storage per sector and high performance. The best part about this drive is its raw performance. If you own a SATA-6 enabled motherboard, you will be able to see this drive performing at best, it almost gave me 205 MBps Write speed and 198 MBps Read speed. SATA 3 and below motherboards will see a slight drop in performance though it will be pretty decent compared to your last hard drive. The only downside of this drive due to large platter storage is the access rate which neared 18ms, not a significant thing though it can be if you use this hard drive in Servers where constant access is a must. Apart from that, this hard drive also feature a very smart and neat A0 firmware which has really good Read / Write algorithms resulting in good control over the sector the drive starts writing and reading. Daily Cut/Copy/Paste tasks, Booting OS, Gaming really improved though they donot touch SSD performance which are far more better. Even while gaming or writing large data onto disk like 20-30 GB of persistent write and read, the drive performed it very quickly which most other large capacity drive take time since the head has to continuously read/write between different sectors, thanks to the new firmware. Also, the drive temperature never exceeded 29C for me which is good. One thing most notable is the noise level that drive attains is almost like the WD Green, barely you can hear it working - To check that I installed my OS onto this drive keeping it out of my case in an ambient environment. I must recommend this drive everyone who is looking for large storage and really good performance. Pros :: Single Platter - Increases performance, Firmware intelligently manages the optimum speed and read/writes of head and platter (7200 RPM Max), Cool & Quiet. Cons :: Access speed can be a slight issue if drive is used in server environment, Package only contains drive - No SATA Cable, No drive mount screws.

Flipkart delivered the HDD on the second day after placing order. Packaging could ve been better. Now I have to replace it since HDD is faulty. A request to flipkart: Please improve your packaging for electronics like HDD as it could save the pain of returning/replacements. Customer care was good. Leaving 4 stars due to poor packaging. Update: To Flipkart: The purpose of review is to highlight ALL ASPECTS of the service. DONT send an email asking customers to edit negative part of the review.

it is a good product if your hard disk not shown in my compute ! do this step 1: open start menu step 2: right click on computer or my computer step 3 : click on manage step 4: click on hard disk management now there you will see your hard disk as unallocated step 5 right click on it step 6 click on simple volume then click click and finish remember dont do this to another hard drive only allocated and