500GB Western Digital Caviar Green SATAII-300 IntelliPower 32Mb OEM

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none other than newegg service DOA can not load OS. said boot mgr. missing.called WDTECH help&they mentioned to rma. stay away from this model untill wd gets the bugs out

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I have constantly had very good luck with Western Digital drives and this 1 is now exception. Fantastic cost for a good drive. This drive is really really also. None I have this as my OS drive along with a matching 1TB for all my music and stuff. Only gets a five.9 in Windows 7 64bit WEI

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*Silent Operation*Low Power Draw*Run Quite Cool - OS Drive 24C / Backup Drive 21C*Surprisingly rapid with information transfers & everyday use! - Transferring the documentary WW2 in HD from OS drive to backup transferred @ 77.5MB per Sec! Copying 1GB of information in around ten seconds ain't half poor for a green drive. None so far! With all the drives dying these days I maintain waiting to wake up one particular day to locate myself down 1 drive. But they maintain chugging along. No cons at all.... To be honest, with all the speak of the WD Black drives and how much quicker they supposedly are I was thinking of retiring my Greens and going to Black for my subsequent develop. Nonetheless as time goes on I believe I'll stick with them and save myself some funds in the approach. They've been wonderful, no complaints at all. Get two, set one particular as a backup and be pleased. :)

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Fairly quiet, does what it ought to none yet

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Incredibly cool and quiet none so far

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Value Unreliable. This drive was my 1st (and LAST) "green" drive. I've generally have good luck with WD drives, but this one bit the dust in under a year. I'll stick with WD, but I won't be going green any time soon.

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none unable to format new drive. tried windows 7, XP and Linux.

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Incredibly Low cost plus free of charge shipping. Ordered 2, 1 was DOA. As soon as I connected start out creating a clicking sound and then turn off. It was by no means detected by Windows. The fisrt one particular is in great circumstances, I even ran some tests from Western Digital and PASS. I hope this does not take place once again or I will start out acquiring Seagate.

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Reads AND writes data, like most tough drives. Hasn't had any problems yet. Not certain about the speeds but I feel it's a 7200 rpm difficult drive. Very quiet...reminds me of the Western Digital Caviar I owned 6 years ago in that respect. These are good drives, even though in all probability not the fastest. none MAKE Certain when you install windows that you set this drive to AHCI mode just before you go installing windows. Converting from IDE to AHCI mode doesn't usually perform. In most instances, you'll have to reinstall, and it makes reinstalling windows take a very, very extended time.

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The only pros is that it lasted for virtually a year and is really quited This drive was operating fine with no noise till now. The drive just die on me soon after using for pretty much a year so it was good though it last it. Now Im going for a replacement from WD this drive carry 3 year limited warranty

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"Green" tough drive, supposed to consume much less power none however operating robust 24ǝ in media center PC. Just bought a different to build one for a friend. My objective was to be silent and power effective. AMD 45W CPUGigabyte 785G MoBoGreen HD80+ PSUNMediaPC casequiet and cool.

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Not DOA. Worked.Did not get hot Possibly it's just me, but the drives do seem somewhat slower than my normal black/blue editions. I'd go for the black or blue versions if I had to do it all more than once again.

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Cost/Size and reliable None so far I picked a couple of these drives up for low budget machines and so far they have performed as advertised.

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I got this WD tough drive on time thanks to newegg's really quickly regular ups three day shipping. And when Igot the drive I put it in my hard drive enclosure I thanformatted the drive gave the drive a letter ect. and it'sbeen operating ever given that AUGUST. another grate itemfrom newegg and grate price and thanks alot. none that i know of.

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I often look to the business leader in challenging drives when I get, and that is Western Digital every single time. Never have I had a dilemma. This drive is great! Just like just about every other one I purchase. Thanks, WD! None.

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If case you're questioning, this is NOT a drive for a gaming PC -- it is somewhat slow, but that's due to the fact it's tuned for cool-running and lower-energy to be utilized in servers and NAS setups. Could come with a disclaimer about the speed, I guess.

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Inexpensive, Quick, and Quiet None so far Used this by itself for a budget construct. Eventually I'll throw in a SSD for the method files.

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I've had this drive three days brief of a year and its still working fine. I leave my personal computer on nearly all the time and I've had difficulties with it. none

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So far this drive has worked for about 6 months without having a hitch so I guess it was a goo purchase. A little slow. can't seriously complain thinking about the price. won't give me a particular kind of pleasure!........you know what I mean

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Price, speed, design, and Power. None Would advise this drive to any individual seeking to boost up their Pc's or even building an external drive.

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Super quiet Windows 7 started hanging…after only 335 hours of use, CrystalDiskInfo three.8.0c reported a "Health Status" of "Caution" due to a high "Reallocated Sector Count". I'd still acquire WDC in the future.

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I purchased this drive to replace the drive in my 2nd laptop or computer when it crashed. It was incredibly affordable so I believed I would attempt it. Install was very effortless, had no difficulties! It's super quiet and so far so excellent! Not truly a "con" but it is so quiet I don't even comprehend when the personal computer is on :-)

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OhMahGoodness quiet! Initial testing to hear them spin up forced me to run my parts tester passively cooled. I couldn't even really feel the vibration off the two I bought if I held them in my hand whilst running. A bit slow. Lengthy initial formatting time. Deffinately not a suitable OS drive. I actually don't recommend this is a drive to load your OS on. It's low spindle speed high latency, and sub-par throughput make it unsuitable for such operations. Even so, if you wanna put this in as an external enclosure or some sort of backup array it's best.

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properly it does the job didn't see any problems yet none so far

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None HD arrived not working. It spins for a few seconds, makes a noise and then stops. Unable to recognize it in any personal computer or external enclosure. Don't obtain this item. It is not worth it.