Western Digital WD5000KSRTL/WD5000AAKS Caviar 500 GB SATA Hard Drive
by Western Digital
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Customer Review: Very early drive failure
Summary: 2 Stars
Have less than 1 year old HP desktop which came with two of these drives which I configured in a RAID1 array. Thank god for that! One drive failed after about 3 months since I live in Bermuda where warranty for stuff bought in the US is more pain than it's worth, I just bought this drive as a replacement in Nov 2009. That drive has now failed as well giving it a life span of less than 3 months. Again the RAID1 array has saved my data (and I back up too!) My desktop is not heavily used, so this drive should not have been taking any abnormal beating.
If you are looking for a new (not replacement drive) I would recommend looking at a different drive. I work with in IT with Windows servers and desktops and this failure rate is abnormal in my experience with over 1000 desktops and servers.
Customer Review: Better than OEM mac drive
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this hard drive for a MAC PRO to use as a spare or back up drive. After using it this way I came realized the the drive seemed to function faster and quieter than the OEM toshiba drive in the MAC pro which was also a 500GB SATA 300 drive. I made this drive the primary drive and relegated the OEM drive as the secondary. I am so pleased with the speed at which this functions and its silence. I have also used Seagate Baracuda drives of similar specs and find this drive to be the winner among the three I have tried.
This drive is a little more expensive than the Seagate but I think worth the price if you are looking for a break from the usual distraction of hard drive noise.
Customer Review: amazon sent me an open-box unit
Summary: 1 Stars
Amazon sent me a drive that appears to be an open box unit and I'm returning it tomorrow.
The retail box has no shrink-wrapping and has worn spots. The opening tab was too easy to open (you know what I mean about those cardboard tabs being hard to open on a new box, right?). The drive is inside a static bag that is scotch-tape closed and the cut line is jagged like scissors were used instead of the thing being wrap sealed (or cut straight). Who knows why the drive was returned, I certainly don't want to find out.
Other things I buy from Amazon get a little banged up from shipping and I can take that, but this one is unacceptable. Atleast they do have a good return policy.
Customer Review: It works!
Summary: 5 Stars
The hardware installed easily in about 5 minutes. It took another 15-20 minutes for me to figure out how to configure the drive under Windows Vista... all of which was OK once I found the right screen and learned the lay of the land under Vista. Getting to the right places to have Vista recognize the hard drive, format it, and assign it the drive letter I wanted was the greater challenge, but everything worked without a hitch.
It is GREAT to have a HUGE amount of storage space available on a second hard drive. I am using it to store all my photos, plus backups of data on my primary hard drive. Good product at a good price.
Customer Review: Fast and Great Hard-Drive
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this hard-drive to replace an older 160GB that was failing. This 500GB Western Digital works Perfect with Windows Vista Ultimate, I say this because I am using it right now. I can Multi-Task with No Problems at all! I listen to my Big iTunes - what I call my jute box music player, I have two Browsers running and a online game running, and this hard-drive keeps up with everything Great! Plus this is the Quietest hard-drive I ever owned!
My System is a Dual Core Pentium D 2.8Ghz and I have 2GB RAM. I use a Diamond Viper X1950 PRO ATI Radeon 512MB video card.