Western Digital Caviar Black 1 TB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive 3.5 Inch, 32 MB Cache, 7200 RPM SATA II WD1001FALS
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Customer Review: Check the warranty online the moment you receive it ! Bad packaging !
Summary: 1 Stars
First is of all, the drive is a good drive, however I have 2 issues with Amazon/Western Digital:
1. Amazon packaging of this drive is just terrible. When I received it, the drive was rattling in the box. That is unacceptable.
2. Check the drive warranty online as soon as you take it out of the bag. Mine shows as:
"No limited warranty - Product was originally sold to a system manufacturer. Please contact the system manufacturer or the place of purchase for warranty service. "
This pretty much means that Western Digital considers this a drive that you receive in an OEM computer (say Dell) and that the computer vendor is responsible for warranty.
Western Digital is known from screwing up the serial numbers occasionally.
For all that will criticize this review because it should be about the "drive" performance not other things, cork it! This is about a drive I bought from this page. What I received was a banged drive with no warranty. I cannot give it more than 1 star...
Customer Review: Great price for 1TB but...
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this drive for extra storage. I've installed many drives with no problems so it never occurred to me to worry about the quality of Western Digital's tech support. The drive works, but only under the right conditions. After trying everything I could think of, including flashing the motherboard and controller BIOS, installing the latest drivers etc, I contacted WD tech support. After a month or so of going back and forth with them, two things became clear: I know more about computers than they do (turns out, so does my dog) and I now have the world's highest storage-capacity paperweight. Fortunately, HD drives are usually very easy to install and rarely cause problems. If you're one of the few that does have a problem, you'd better hope you don't have to get your support from WD. I think that if they wanted to, they could forward the really difficult problems to their design and engineering people. But rather than getting serious about solving the problem, after a few scripted-checklist attempts, their goal becomes simply to get rid of you.Customer Review: Fast, cheap, cool
Summary: 5 Stars
I filled 8 of these with some archival data and had no issues or DOA's. The drive is fast and runs fairly cool. Streaming raw data to these drives (from sector 0 to the end) I got an average write rate of around 60mbytes/sec across the disk (higher at the outer edge, lower near the middle as expected). On the read side I could sustain 85mbytes/sec on a streaming scan from the front to the back. These are competitive with Seagate Barracuda's in the same class and quite a bit cheaper.
They are not rated for 24x7 enterprise operation so they may not be appropriate for use in a file server, for my purposes (archiving telemetry) this isn't an issue.
The only negative is Amazon's packaging. Each of the 8 drives was put in a little cardboard box which was loosely packed with inflatable cushions, so loosely that the drives could bang around in their boxes easily. The 8 smaller boxes where put in a much larger box with too little fill so they all bounced around. None of them were DOA so I guess it was good enough.
Customer Review: Drive = Great, Amazon Packaging = Horrid
Summary: 5 Stars
I will start by advising that if you are purchasing an OEM drive, choose a vendor other than Amazon. Allow me to describe the packaging they used: drive in anti-static bag placed on bottom of box, air-filled bag-type cushioning placed loosely on top of drive. The drive was therefore totally unprotected on the bottom side, and the wear on the anti-static bag showed it. In what alternate dimension is this an acceptable means of protecting a hard drive? They're supposed to be protected from vibration. Duh!
As for the drive itself, it seems to be a quality piece. It seems to have survived Amazon's shipment abuse test, though only time will tell if its lifespan was shortened any. The drive is louder than the WD 3200AAKS-75SBA0 drive that shipped with my system. That's not a major concern to me though.
It's a shame I cannot assign a rating to this experience with Amazon, as that would be zero stars. The four stars are for the product only. Buy it somewhere else!
Customer Review: You can't beat it!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have two 640Mb Western Digital internal hard drives and now this 1Tb internal drive. Western Digital are legendary drive manufacturers and despite a few hiccups here and there, they are quite consistent in driving hard at dependable and affordable technology that packs a punch when it comes to performance.
This is the "black" edition, which is recommend for power users such as gamers or people who need a little more speed for video etc.
It's terribly simple to set these drives up in Windows Vista 64Bit Home Premium:
1. Install the drive in a spare hard drive bay and connect a SATA cable and power cable (not supplied) to your motherboard and PSU.
2. Boot, optionally verifying the drive is connected in your BIOS before loading the OS.
3. Run Disk Management in Vista and initialize the drive (right click over the drive icon if initialization is required).
4. Create partitions if desired, name them and Format.
DONE!!