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

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

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Rating: 7.97/10

Hong_W@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 05/01/11	500GB Western Digital Caviar Green SATAII-300 IntelliPower 32Mb OEM Cons: None Pros: Great HD for the price for a budget build Comment: Great price for capcity. Placed this hard drive into a very budget build for my mother in law. Was probably an over kill for her needs but for the price, it was great
bonetrail@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 02/03/11	500GB Western Digital Caviar Green SATAII-300 IntelliPower 32Mb OEM Cons: Slower than a WD blue or Black Pros: Quiet, power efficient Comment: I purchased this drive and I am using it in a Vantec USB 2.0 external enclosure. It is perfect for that role. You get the same performance as other drives because of the limitation of the USB 2.0 spec, but with a lot less heat and noise.
TripandFace@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 01/09/11	500GB Western Digital Caviar Green SATAII-300 IntelliPower 32Mb OEM Cons: none Pros: cheap hard drive used for storage its perfect. Comment: using this hard drive in a computer i use to do everyday work at work. came in oem pakaging so no bells and whistles but for less than 50 dollars what do you want. storage drive use is perfect for these drives and when paired with an ssd it makes a perfect work station.
xwinstonx@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 12/11/10	500GB Western Digital Caviar Green SATAII-300 IntelliPower 32Mb OEM Cons: none Pros: Good price, lots of storage Comment: Works good just like any other 500G hard drive, its green so it uses less power which is good. 500 gigs is more than enough for the average user.
Phil_L@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 11/21/10	500GB Western Digital Caviar Green SATAII-300 IntelliPower 32Mb OEM Cons: - Little bit of 'drone noise' heard when room is silent, but that is to be expected from a HDD Pros: - Cool- Quiet Comment: Using as a DVR HDD with a 6131 receiver. Plugged directly into the 6131 when received without issues. Runs cool and quiet with Nexstar CX case. 66hrs of HD and 400+hrs of SD recording. Scheduled recordings of HD shows play back perfectly without lags or slow downs of any sort. Pause, RWD, FWD, and random recording work flawlessly.
Draper_H@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 11/03/10	500GB Western Digital Caviar Green SATAII-300 IntelliPower 32Mb OEM Cons: none yet Pros: Price, faster than expected Comment: Bought this for the first drive in my younger brothers first pc build. haven't had any issues yet. drive is not load.
Ian_P@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 10/21/10	500GB Western Digital Caviar Green SATAII-300 IntelliPower 32Mb OEM Cons: none really Pros: very good size for price Comment: bought this hard drive for a budget build. it does its job admirably. produces little heat and is 500gig. its kind of hard filling that amount so is enough for me. using for a pvr. buy it if its on sale. good value
Chen_C@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 10/20/10	500GB Western Digital Caviar Green SATAII-300 IntelliPower 32Mb OEM Cons: n/a so far Pros: cool and quiet Comment: bought this for a budget build when it was on sale, couldnot expect more for this price, it runs fast and quiet, would buy again
wmiked777@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 10/17/10	500GB Western Digital Caviar Green SATAII-300 IntelliPower 32Mb OEM Cons: none Pros: cheap, sata2 Comment: fast drive for the money, perfect for storage or operating systems, have mine set up with both and all work good.
Exist83@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 10/02/10	500GB Western Digital Caviar Green SATAII-300 IntelliPower 32Mb OEM Cons: Nothing Pros: Cool and quiet ! Comment: I buyed this drive for storage. when i buyed it, it was a big drive, its a lil one now but its still working without any fail for 2 year now.
Michele_D@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 09/10/10	500GB Western Digital Caviar Green SATAII-300 IntelliPower 32Mb OEM Cons: -None Pros: -Cheap price Comment: I use it as an OS drive and I have no problem at all. My husband uses it also as an OS drive, and no problem so far (he bought it 6 months ago).Don't even hesitate to buy it, it's worth the price.
Francis_M@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 07/16/10	500GB Western Digital Caviar Green SATAII-300 IntelliPower 32Mb OEM Cons: -Constantly parks and unparks its heads after 8 seconds of inactivity, which can become annoying and might shorten the life of your hard disk-Spins slower, so that also mean less performance from it compared to a Blue series Pros: -The most silent hard disks from Western Digital-Spins slower, so vibrates less Comment: Yes they're quiet, but i wouldn't buy this for a primary hard disk that contains your system files (OS, drivers installed, etc...), not because it's a bit slower, but because the Green series have something called "IntelliPower", that parks and unparks your hard disk heads after 8 seconds of inactivity, and that, in your SpeedFan SMART monitoring, make the "Load Cycle Count" increase dramatically. In 3 weeks, my counts increased un to over 1400, that's crazy. Plus everytime it parks, you can hear the clicking it does...which makes you worry about how many months/years it will be able to hold before it dies...Don't even try that "wdidle3" trick on it, i tried it and the hard disk started to parks and unparks and made my OS lags like hell, so i went back to put turn this feature back on as it was, before it broke...Green hard disks for me? never again. For you? use this only for storage, that's the only thing i can recommend for this Green series...
Luka_B@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 07/08/10	500GB Western Digital Caviar Green SATAII-300 IntelliPower 32Mb OEM Cons: Not for gaming Pros: Price/vs GO Comment: Got 3 of those for play hd video on my HTPC and for my back-up. No problem and quiet even i got 3. Not for gamer pc. Like other member i recommanded WD black edition or SDD
Lei_W@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 06/30/10	500GB Western Digital Caviar Green SATAII-300 IntelliPower 32Mb OEM Cons: kinda slow transfer rate Pros: Good price GB/$ Comment: This drive seems to be more stable than my seagate drive, that one has a weird problem not getting detected a external harddrive enclosure, but this one works just fine
Captain Spandex@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 05/26/10	500GB Western Digital Caviar Green SATAII-300 IntelliPower 32Mb OEM Cons: Might be too slow for a gaming rig. Pros: Cool, quiet and fairly inexpensive. Comment: I'm using this as a HDD for my Shaw PVR. Works great, it quiet (so not distracting) and it didn't cost me much. I am totally satisfied. If you are looking for a high performance drive for gaming though, I would recommend a Western Digital "Black".
smithrmark@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 05/13/10	500GB Western Digital Caviar Green SATAII-300 IntelliPower 32Mb OEM Cons: none Pros: big bufferGreen Comment: Bought this for a net and email main drive and it works as intended, not the fastest drive out there so you do see a difference its not very noisy. i woukd buy it again
Adrian_K@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 04/23/10	500GB Western Digital Caviar Green SATAII-300 IntelliPower 32Mb OEM Cons: -not the fastest speeds Pros: -fairly quiet-good for storage Comment: For the price i paid for these and the fact im using these drives as storage they are great and cheap
Roger D ©@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 04/01/10	500GB Western Digital Caviar Green SATAII-300 IntelliPower 32Mb OEM Cons: None Yet..here's hoping none in distant future. Pros: Price On Sale, Quiet, Temp. Comment: I found this drive really really quiet compared to 500GigAAKs drive I have in one of my gaming rigs. Not that my AAKs is noisy par for the odd tick tick but this AADs was whisper IMO. Again I've been more a Seagate man but I've bent with WD before so I'm ok with them and their reliability...atleast on builds I've done.
RaZoR1@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 03/24/10	500GB Western Digital Caviar Green SATAII-300 IntelliPower 32Mb OEM Cons:seem to have a slightly high failure rate?? Pros:cheap, 500gb Comment: Bought this because it was cheap...personally I cant stand western digital, but not looking to gety into a flame war...just been burnt by them before, and thier help line at the time was an ass.
CompuDoc@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 03/22/10	500GB Western Digital Caviar Green SATAII-300 IntelliPower 32Mb OEM Cons:I see no visible weaknesses. Pros:It is very fast and quiet. Comment: I use this as external and it works perfectly fine. The speed is as expected, and it is extremely quiet and uses little heat. I would recommend this to anyone in the market for a quiet, stable hard drive. I've used WD hard drives my entire life and they have never failed me once.
GhettoChild@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 03/17/10	500GB Western Digital Caviar Green SATAII-300 IntelliPower 32Mb OEM Cons:no idea Pros:low power, was $50 during christmas/boxing week sale, low heat, no audible noise in an enclosure next to a noisy desktop, very cost effective. Packaging was simple OEM anti-static bag. Runs just fine in an Acomdata Samba Radiant Red usb 2.0 enclosure. Comment: using this for external storage. Havn't had a problem with it so nothing to complain about. Considered a low power value drive meant for backup storage not really for heavy OS use.
Jet@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 03/08/10	500GB Western Digital Caviar Green SATAII-300 IntelliPower 32Mb OEM Cons:Slow HDD compared to some of the other ones Pros:Price (picked up during a weekly sale for ~$50)Reliable so far and not so noisy Comment: Bought this for a surf and word computer's main drive and it works as intented, not the fastest drive out there so you do see a difference but its not very noisy and from what I've seen, does not look to generate heat too much.
MIHAI_H@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 02/09/10	500GB Western Digital Caviar Green SATAII-300 IntelliPower 32Mb OEM Cons:speed. They are slownoise Pros:cheapnone Comment: I got 2 of those to make a raid 1 on my PC. They are very slow. Anlyhow, for the money 40 $ on Xmass it is worth it. But if you are looking for performance fogetit
Henry_Y@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 01/28/10	500GB Western Digital Caviar Green SATAII-300 IntelliPower 32Mb OEM Cons:would be great if they let you know how to get 500gb right away, instead of letting u research and waste time Pros:great customer servicefast drive Comment: great disk, great company, got 2 in 2 different computers, one died and i switched them, then they both died, but WD replaced it without any questions, 1 of the best customer service in the industry. now it works great, without a single problem for 2 yrs
Lanna_H@NCIX Rating: Review Date: 01/23/10	500GB Western Digital Caviar Green SATAII-300 IntelliPower 32Mb OEM Cons:Failure Pros:None. Expect the failure and conditioned to accept the meager time frame they function Comment: Bought 2 and installed both. One failed in 20 days. Expecting the other to fail as well. Forced to buy 2 of everything and back up multiple times to avoid the inevitable failure. Very poor quality. Phone support jumps right into replacement RMA at higher price than paid Replacement great if you like the world to have all your data after sending back the failed drives. Never like writing negative points but this is well deserved.

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