Western Digital WD5000KSRTL/WD5000AAKS Caviar 500 GB SATA Hard Drive
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Customer Review: Second buy, second dissapointment
Summary: 1 Stars
My experience comes from a few months back, but I guess it's worth mentioning. Throughout the past 10 years, I've only chosen WD drives twice, one back in the 2GB days and one of these a few months back. Sadly, the first one ended with a major multiple sector failure and this one with a critical failure with SMART warning. This drive only lasted me about 3 months, so as of this date, this brand has failed me 100% of the time. I'm back to Seagate drives now.Customer Review: Just died 5 months out of warranty
Summary: 2 Stars
Drives fail. I know that. Was using this along with a 500GB Maxtor in a 1TB RAID0 array, with a nice cool fan, I might add. It is amazing to me that we accept such short warranty periods for modern hard drives. Their "Customer Loyalty Program" Will offer to sell me a new drive for $97. You must be joking! I'm going to buy a Seagate with a 5 year warranty and upgrade to a RAID5 array so that next time a drive fails I have redundancy.Customer Review: Be careful
Summary: 1 Stars
I have had three of these drives fail in the past six months. Two were on a Mac G5, one was on a Linux system.
On a positive note, Western Digital has a very efficient replacement policy.
If you are still shopping, I would strongly recommend spending a little more and buying an enterprise-class drive. If you have already purchased this drive, you should stop what you doing and back up your data.
Customer Review: Had to replace it after 1 years and 6 months
Summary: 1 Stars
Hard drive is crap, it only comes with a 1 year warranty and this piece of ... started acting up after 1 year and 6 months. In a nutshell, it has some bad sectors and it won't boot if it's hot. Got to wait a while for it to cool off and before I can boot from it again. Guessing it's just a matter of time before it goes out completely.
Note, my system boots fine from other hard drives...
Customer Review: This harddrive is awesome!
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this harddrive in order to have more space for my music and pictures. it is very quiet and also very fast. I use it as my new C drive now and I did not expect just a fast harddrive to accelarate my system this much. Booting and picture browsing so much faster now - even though I copied the files from my old C drive 1:1. It also comes with a SATA cable. I can highly recommend this product.