Western Digital WD5000KSRTL Caviar 500 GB SATA Hard Drive | List Price: $119.99
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Platform: Windows
Brand: Western Digital
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: 1 year warranty
Features: - 500 GB SATA 3.5-inch internal hard drive; advanced acoustics and cool operation for high-end computers, multimedia and gaming systems
- 7200 RPM spin rate; 16 MB cache; 300 MB/s transfer rate
- WhisperDrive technology minimizes noise; SoftSeek technology increases operational efficiencies; Data Lifeguard Tools protect data; ShockGuard protects hard drive during operation
- Designed for low-power consumption
- 3-year limited warranty
Second buy, second dissapointment [Posted on 2008-07-27]
My experience comes from a few months back, but I guess it's worth mentioning. Throughout the past 10 years, I've only chosen WD drives twice, one back in the 2GB days and one of these a few months back. Sadly, the first one ended with a major multiple sector failure and this one with a critical failure with SMART warning. This drive only lasted me about 3 months, so as of this date, this brand has failed me 100% of the time. I'm back to Seagate drives now.
Drive Dead after 2 months--all data lost [Posted on 2008-08-09]
Horrible drive. Steer clear, of this product...it is unreliable. The drive is unreadable and all my pictures and video are now lost. I wish I could sue these junk manufacturers for all the time they caused me to flush down the toilet. All the hours would come out to thousands of dollars. Rediculous and very disappointing.
Flawless Hard Drive [Posted on 2008-09-11]
A very quiet hard disk, with a lot of space, and its really fast, it offers fast access to files.
expectacular! buy it
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muy buen disco duro, rapidisimo, con mucho espacio, y no hace nada de ruido.
Fair price - works as advertised - received it very fast [Posted on 2008-09-22]
Got this very fast
These caviar hard drives seem to be reliable. I have a 350 and two 250mb that are almost 2 years old and two 250mb that are almost a year old and two 500mb that are over a month old. So far so good
works well, included software helps [Posted on 2008-10-03]
It seems like after a couple of years no matter what you had before you always outgrow your hard drive. I had put together a computer for home use a few years ago (P4) with a sata 1 motherboard. I was too cheap at the time to do Sata and did a 120gb eied drive instead. It worked OK but was getting full of pictures and I was experimenting with video, and my son started putting on 5 and 10 gb games. I replaced the drive with this new Sata2 drive with only a couple of glitches. It turns out you need to uninstall office 2007, use the included copy software to coppy the drive, and then reinstall office 2007. The copy protect makes office not work quite right and I could not uninstall it and reinstall it after it was copied onto the new drive. Fortunately all the files for outlook worked once I reinstall Office. And my Office 2007 boots up at least 2x faster. The other glitch was I needed to use the jumper they supplied to make it SATA1 for my motherboard. They tell you what you need to do and then tell you wont have to because it is automatic (not). All in all it gives me pleanty of space and my system boots and runs a lot faster.
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