Western Digital WD5000AAKS 500GB Caviar Sata 7200 Rpm 16MB Cache SATA Hard Drive

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Western Digital WD5000AAKS 500GB Caviar Sata 7200 Rpm 16MB Cache SATA Hard Drive

Capacity - 500G
SATA
16M CACHE
7200 RPM
3.5 Inch

List Price: $99.99
Lowest Price: $74.99

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Western Digital WD5000AAKS 500GB Caviar Sata 7200 Rpm 16MB Cache SATA Hard Drive

Customer Reviews:

Rating:
Date: 2008-06-23
Pretty good product and excellent product support
It's a good drive so far. I have a Mac Pro and had two of these installed already. I was using them to store my movies and photos. Luckily I had them configured using Leopard's built in raid software where all the data is automatically shadowed to the other drive. A week after I ordered this drive, as an upgrade to another computer, one of these hard drives in my MAC pro, failed. Luckily, because it was in the RAID configuration, I did not loose my data. I've learned my lessons over the years and backup-especially of assets like digital photos is very important--I anticipate some disasters. The good news is, the drive was still under warranty, so I shipped it back to Western Digital and they send me a replacement the next day. I'm very pleased with the customer service and i've had many WD drives over the years and this is the first one that went south.

Rating:
Date: 2008-06-06
Working great
Needed a replacement drive and this seemed like a good fit. Good performance and low noice. So far so good.

Rating:
Date: 2008-05-29
it's a good hard drive for the bucks-- what more can one say?
As expected, this drive is working fine thus far. Good speed and capacity for the dollar. I purchased in anticipation of purchasing a second "down the line" when I'm ready to set up a RAID mirrored configuration, and I trust this will tide me over until that time comes.

Rating:
Date: 2008-05-18
Wow!!!
Talk about the space and speed of this drive. Western Digital is the best drive GB for GB on the market today. It's the only way to go.

Rating:
Date: 2008-04-22
Bought two, both Died quick
I bought this drive from NewEgg because it was marketed as quiet. It's quiet compared to standard drives but compared to the Samsung SP2004C drives I own this is very noisy.

I bought two of these within the past year. They didn't even last a year. The first one started out Ok so I bought a second one, it was a good price for 500GB. Well, there is a reason they're cheap, because they are bad drives.

I've been using computers since I was 12. I'm 28 now, and these are the first drives that have died on me in all that time, (five systems and upgrades later). I always treat the drives very well, avoiding hard resets and shut downs and such. I'm careful, yet despite that both drives I bought failed.

The second one was never quite right, always a delay when accessing data. That one died first. The first one, which I thought was good, died a couple months later. I'm really disgusted with Western Digital. I used to buy only WD because I was satisfied with their drives, especially the 80 GB Caviar.

After this I will be switching to Samsung. The Samsung drives I have bought are quiet and reliable with no quirks. In addition, after the drive died I found my computer is responding better and is faster. Seems the drives were causing some type of lag in my system.

Western Digital seems to be going downhill fast. Avoid these drives and go with Samsung or Seagate with the five year warranty.

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