HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5-Inch 1TB 7200 RPM SATA III 32MB Cache Internal Hard Drive 0J22423

Good thing I'm not superstitious, cause I of what I am about to state: perhaps cheap, fast, & good CAN/DOES exist, afterall!!!replaced, on my own, the 500GB 7200rpm drive that came in my late-2011 MacBook Pro... it finally died :( kaput. mechanical fail. epic. SHOCKER, right? RIP KALI_6.3 – That one *was* the bestest/fastest/largest capacity drive avail at the time (& was for quite a while, too.)So, after a lil research, (ok, more that 'a lil' prolly, knowing me, THOUGH it's totally relative. & also compared to my übergeekiness with researching everything from cat treats to rocket surgeons, it really was not relatively long,) just one single evening! on mac forums, another site with egg in it's name, and then of course, reviews here on amazon... I, obviously got this one. IT'S AH-MAY-ZING that this is SOO affordable & 2x the capacity of my previous drive & the same RPMs &&&& it totally fit &... so far, so good!!(I remember in college having to get a special order 5.5GB drive cost nearly $600, & filled up my entire backpack! Yes: The singularity *is* near.)(Shoot, I just remembered that I forget if I had to get a connector, or not. OK - that MIGHT be good to make a note of/ be prepared for.)(Though if I did have to get a thingie, it was not an issue. Either I didn't need it, a friend had one, I took it off of something else, or I walked to/got it from radioshack, (even though they'd been going out of biz for ~year & only had like 2% of random items remaining... Sorry, can't recall.) Point is, you might need one, but getting one is non issue.)The fact that this product is listed as by "HGST, a Western Digital Company," eased my concern buying such an important item, sight unseen, for to my g33kish understanding, they (WD) are one of thee main few hardware manufacturers found inside most every gizmo that exists, no matter what the outer branding states... (even though I do have at least on WD ext HD that's "failed," but there's prolly no innocent brand left, & this is raw internal hardware, so, I got it. & would, again.)I didn't realize *how* incredibly effed up my drive had been, in soooo many ways, for soooo long. I had to get a new drive, pronto, for I waited too long, already... By the sound of it ALONE! Like a jet engine. ...I did consider solid state, but, I prefer the extra bytes & speed & data flexibility/re/writability ...Turned on computer (oh, booted from a usb thumbdrive I'd already installed & tested OSXetcs on, with this and my macMini, & it immediately recognized that it did not recognize it. Rad. So, I formatted it and partitioned it into 2 even parts and installed the newest OSX.whatevertheycallitnowadays... from scratch, through the internets via iCloud, (didn't do any auto transferring of old data, for I prefer to start a new maschine all clean-like,)&... it's been several months now & ALLES IST GÜT :)If I recall, the reviews were pretty much good, or reallllly not... so as with anything, you can get faulty bits. It happens. So many bits, afterall!Fortunately, these bytes of mine are hunky dory.(& I realllly hope it stays that way.For after many moons of prying open, frankensteining inside, & resealing my computer... uhm, yeah; No.That back is ON THERE, FOR GOOD, now.)&thus concludes my review; which reminds me why I rarely leave reviews. ;p

I purchased the HGST Travelstar 7K1000 1TB hard drive because I wanted to know what HGST stood for. No, really, I got this drive because the platters spin at 7200 rpm instead of the more common 5400 rpm of most notebook/laptop computer hard drives. That means this drive will be faster at moving the data around. And 7200 sounds like a much more impressive number than 5400.Since I planned on storing photos and videos, I needed a drive with a lot of storage space and the 7200 rpm speed. If I were also planning on placing programs on this drive, I would also have considered some of the hybrid drives from Seagate which have solid state memory sufficient to cache frequently used programs as well as traditional platters that spin at 5400 rpm. But since my needs were for things that wouldn't take advantage of the cache, I bought this instead. Plus, it's really quite inexpensive and it is one of the few 7200 rpm notebook drives available.Installation was very easy on my Lenovo (although your own computer may be more difficult), because all I had to do was open up the case, unscrew and remove the hard drive caddy, unscrew and remove the old hard drive, then put this new HGST in the caddy and reverse the process. In fact, you can feel like a mad scientist by wildly cackling, "Ha! Now I shall reverse the process!" as you do that.Once installed, it's just a matter of making the partition active in Windows. I thought of naming the new partition "Dolly" as in Dolly Partition, but then I realized that none of you young kids would even understand the joke, so I just named the partition Data instead. No, just "Data" not "Data Instead." Sheesh.Anyway, since then, it's been happily working to store my data without any problems whatsoever. It's nowhere near as fast as the solid state hard drive I use to boot the notebook computer, but it's plenty fast enough to play back 4K video streams or load 36 megapixel images into Photoshop. And I just laugh, because it's cheaper than some pokey 5400 rpm drives.So, if your needs are for data storage and you need reasonable, reliable speed without a huge expense, this is the drive you should consider.If on the other hand, you need a drive for both programs and data storage, you should consider either an expensive solid state drive or a hybrid drive that has both solid state storage and 5400 rpm platters. You'll appreciate having the programs load quickly in that hybrid set up while still having good amounts of inexpensive storage space. Just want to make sure you understand that you should get the option that best suits your needs and budget.Oh, and HGST stands for Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, or at least it used to, until they had a deal with Western Digital. So now you know. You didn't think I'd tease that in the opening sentence and not let you know, right?