I bought this to mount on drywall. Sadly, while most walls have studs 16" on center, mine was 20" (who knew?). The unit is about one inch too short (side-to-side) to secure to the studs, however. It comes with plastic wall anchors, but I chose to secure 3/4" furniture grade birch plywood to the wall studs, and then anchored the mount to the plywood, and it is SOLID, and looks and works great.