WD Blue (they merged green with blue as the default 'desktop' model). I purchased one a week or so ago, power on count and time were the same as retail drives and warranty shows as valid well beyond the 6 months stated when I checked it on WD's warranty checker.

In terms of drive quality I run an Un-RAID set-up, before I even bothered to pre-clear it I did a full surface scan then multiple passes with the pre-clear script, the drive was 100% fine. My only gripe is that they're currently OOS and I now want to buy another few and i'd prefer not to have to buy a pair of 4TB's even though the £/TB is lower.

Digital river is trash, they are like the middleman hope you the best.

Is it still phone only and based in Ireland? When I had problems in the past they were so unhelpful that I sold the faulty one on eBay (as faulty) and vowed to never use them again. Shame as they have some cracking prices

same, they will kick you between department saying its not their area



Recertified mean a product has been returned and repaired to the standard and quality of a brand new product. Its certainly should not arrived "knackered and damaged"




All modern hard drive internal and external is SATA based and can be use as internal HDD. none of them comes in native USB interface.

souce:me because i bought the exact same one and using it as internal HDD right now

I think you'll find the correct term is recertified, not damaged

Really as people above have received damaged drives, drives with bad sectors. I've had a few over the years that have broke. But yeah we must be wrong. Don't forget these don't come from WD they come from a seperate supplier whose profit depends on doing the bare minimum in terms of checks and repairs. The warranty is worth anything other than a replacement if it fails within the 6 months.

The idea people are buying the wrong drive and then return them is just tripe. Can you imagine the returns note "I didn't realise the 4tb external USB drive I bought was a 4tb external USB drive so I'd like to return it please"

But people pay their money and take the risk JUST THE CONSTANT POSTING AND REPOSTING AS IF SOMETHING AMAZING HAS BEEN DISCOVERED is getting annoying. Don't worry though we have another 50 posts of every drive on the website then all quite for two weeks.

I think this has been asked before and the newer ones (assuming this is) have no sata just a USB interface on the drive, you have to get the network based afaik to have a proper drive.

Yes, but you'll have a lot of explaining to do at the airport security scanner

TBH, I've always purchased WD drives (a mix of new and recertified) over the course of 20+ years and I've only ever had 1 drive fail (out of a lot) so not sure why WD have a refurb store and others don't.

I've had many WD hard drives fail but for me they all seem to be laptop hard drives. I don't need know whether I'm just clumsy with my laptop's or just pure bad luck but 3.5 inch hard drives I've had no problem with. Bought some of these and the smaller external ones before that were recertified and they're still in good condition.

Pretty sure this has been said on every one of these recertified hard drive threads but recertified could just mean customer returns. Whether the speeds were not what a customer wanted, the drive was the wrong size or they didn't know it needed a power supply. There are many reasons aside from failure which results in a return of a product.

People wont be told, just trying to decide if this is the next hysterical wave of posts from people who can't use the search function and think they have stumbled on a yet undiscovered treasure trove of knackered returns or its just some slow posts from the previous wave two weeks ago.