Western Digital WD5000KSRTL/WD5000AAKS Caviar 500 GB SATA Hard Drive
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Customer Review: WD Caviar SE16 500 GB SATA Internal HD
Summary: 3 Stars
The price for the capacity is great. Shipping was also great. I ordered three of these to upgrade my file server. Their data rates were excellent but one issue I had was that the SMART status from speedfan and passmark deskcheckup says that the drive performance is less than optimal. This is the same for all three drives. I am not so surprised about WD as I am always skeptical about them. Well I will have to wait and see if they fail or not. Luckily my data will be in a RAID 1 configuration.
Remember to check the SMART status of your drives when you receive them.
Customer Review: Wasn't As Easy As i Thought It Would Be
Summary: 4 Stars
Many reviews said you just plug it in and it goes. This was not the case for me. I attached very easily. I had to get someone with some tech knowledge to help get this process started.
I know very little about computers, but once tech savy person got me going it was fine. I am up and running. Almost bought a whole new computer because of crashed HD.
Bought this and saved a few Hundred $$ for now.
I am only intersted in surfing web really. Anything I save is on external HD. So this works for me just fine.
Customer Review: 500 GB SATA drrive
Summary: 4 Stars
These drives are great.. so far anyways. I got three of them. I use one as a system drive and then I created an array for media storage (1TB).. I do put a hard drive through a lot of stress.. I am a developer so I have had many drives crash out on me. I can't say how these will be long term but so far they are performing nicely. Do not buy those Samsung spinpoint drives.. I had 2 of them crash really fast and the replacements crashed out also ... the first set crashed before a year and the replacements lasted just over one year!!Customer Review: Replaced 4 of 4 < 1 year
Summary: 2 Stars
WD replaced first with WD5000AAKS, second replacement, WD5000KS.. Be sure to register your drives with WD when you get them. One remaining drive (not replacement) making recurrent sound of winding down but no obvious performance problems. Ran WD boot CD diagnostics (short version) on each drive before 2nd drive went bad but nothing showed up. 22-JAN-08 number 3 died today. Still have noise. Mar-08 4th and last drive died. Replacement noiser than ever. Noticed these replacements are "recertified". No more Western Digital for me.Customer Review: OK for the money and 3 yr warranty
Summary: 3 Stars
For music, videos in news websites/business articles, or poker games I usually leave my speaker on "all the time."
well, what is ANNOYING is that, there is this "clicking sound" anytime pages are flipped (like reading ads page to page) and the ONLY Solution is to turnoff the speaker.
do yourself a favor -- spend a few more dollars for the 500gb Caviar Black 32mb cache WD5001AALS [mine does not have this annoying clicking sound...] and also get the 5-year warranty!