Caviar Blue 500GB Hard Drive

Great hard drive

Posted May 13, 2007 - Western Digital drives have become the de-facto standard for quiet computing, with both low power usage (hence low heat dissipation) and excellent acoustics. The WD5000AAKS is a 3x166GB platter-design, which should improve on the already-excellent performance of the 4-platter WD5000KS. Western Digital's second generation SATA drives are fast and competitive in both price and features. Further, Western Digital still offers advance RMAs at no charge, unlike Seagate who at the time of writing charges for that service. Samsung drives are the only other ones I'd consider purchasing at the moment. One thing to note is that Western Digital's website claims that they will only honor their 3-year warranty for OEM drives purchased from "authorized" vendors. That list can be found here: www.wdc.com/en/buy/whe.... It's not clear that they will refuse warranty for other drives, but caveat emptor.

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Great Hard Drive

Posted Apr 29, 2007 - I recommend ordering from a retailer you trust and has a good warranty and return policy. And for those who are saying that they are losing HD space, try turning off system restore for that drive . But only if it is a secondary drive. Although I recommend leaving it on because you may need it one day.

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very fast and easy

Posted Sep 12, 2007 - This drive arrived in a mf sealed plastic envelope, wrapped in bubble wrap, nested in a big box of peanuts. (excellent packaging!) The "bare drive" version is just exactly that. There were no screws, no documentation, not even an invoice in the box. (I didn't need those things, so it was no big deal.) I installed this drive in about 3 minutes. It appears to be perfect. I am upgrading from an 80 Gb (secondary) drive, so this is a big improvement for me! I ordererd this on the 10th, paid for 2-day shipping, and it arrived on the 12th. I could not be happier about the product, the price, or the service I received from mwave.com! A+++

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Good buy

Posted 1 year ago - This is my second WD 500G drive. I added a second drive for media storage. The access time is fast. The drive is quiet. I've been using these drives for about 6 months and so far no problem found. Never got any error on routine drive scan. Sata set up is easy and windows XP recognizes the drive right away.

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Western Digital 500GB HDD great for everything

Posted Jul 3, 2007 - This is a Western Digital hard drive. I've had other brands, and WD is one of the few brands that seem to survive the test of time. The write time for this model is 2 ms slower than the 5000ABYS model. However, the ABYS model is made for RAID. All in all, an excellent hard drive, and should go well with my other two.

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n Caviar SE16 500GB Hard Drive (Serial ATA-300, 7,200 RPM, 16MB)

Posted Apr 30, 2007 - Save for the warranty (OEM version has 3 years) and excellent drive that's quiet, fast, and cool. This and Samsung HD501LJ are probably the class of the 500GB field right now. WD also offers advanced replacement warranty service.

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Western Digital HHD are the best!

Posted Feb 11, 2007 - I love Western Digital Hard Drives. I would never buy any other brand. I have never had a WD hard drive fail on me. I currently own a 36GB Raptor, this 500GB (replacing a 120GB WD drive), and an external 250GB. If you want smooth, reliable and fast drives go with WD!

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It does its job

Posted Apr 2, 2007 - So far so good. A nice addition to my 200 GB (80+60+80 external) It's my first time ordering a Western Digital drive and I have no complaints. Would definitely buy again if possible.

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Quiet, Fast, Affordable. Great buy!

Posted Jul 5, 2007 - This harddrive is a great buy. The performance is fast! This thing was qualified to earn a 5.9 (highest score) on Vista's index meter. I use XP so I have no tried to verify this yet but that was one of the selling points. Another selling point is that it is quiet. Highly recommended since this only cost a few bucks more compared to other louder harddrives like my Seagate Barracuda 7200.10.

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eXcellent drive

Posted Nov 30, 2007 - Thank you MWave, the price keeps moving in the right direction... i did a lot of research and found this drive to be the best value and easy install/expansion for my Mac Pro... i do a lot of video wurk and this was a very good investment for my system... i should be getting two more as soon as i finnish my current project... if you are reading this, just buy it so you can get it installed sooner than later... inJOY

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All good except not latest technology

Posted Jul 30, 2007 - I purchased this product because of its capacity, seek times, reliability, its price and most importantly, data transfer rates. I also eliminated other models from consideration due to not being quite as quiet as this model. I wanted the perpendicular recording technology, but it is a bit more expensive and not as fast with the data transfer rate. On the other hand, the drive with perpendicular recording technology is reported by many to be nearly silent; however, the silence was not a sufficient enough reason for me to spend more and receive slower transfer rates. This HDD is very quiet, has excellent data transfer rates and is recognized by Windows Vista. I have been happy with Caviar drives before, and am certain I will be just as happy with this HDD.

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500gb

Posted Jun 4, 2007 - I buy this drive to replace my old IDE hard drives with 8M cache, this is a very fast and quiet drive, and it includes the SATA cable with Secure Connect, this is a great product.

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Caviar

Posted May 19, 2007 - I bought this drife for my new Dlink DNS-323 network storage. Installation was fast, drive works well, fast and most important very quiet. Good capacity / price ratio. Highly recomanded.

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