I bought this Western Digital Black 1TB around July of 2012. I've formatted my PC 3 times, switched CPU, GPU, RAM, etc. and this drive has never let me down. It's 80% full of games right now (since I don't want to take the risk of using it for important or personal data at his age) and it still gets...
Very Reliable; Inexpensive compared to SSD; Fast enough for a mechanical drive
Noisy (Normal for HDD