Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB 3.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

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This was the 2nd 1. 1st failed. Fantastic drive when its a functioning one. None however. We'll see how lengthy it lasts.

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Bot 7 of this TWO years ago they are still operating. NON

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Again, decent cost. two in a row, the 1st one held an OS for a couple days then crashed. The 2nd a single was DOA. My cousin has this exact exact same HD and his has been functioning for over a week now. I guess I just got the short finish of both sticks. Gonna attempt Caviar Green alternatively.

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Price tag / waranty / runs cool & quiet (are these genuinely pros that every single other drive doesn't have by now?) Slow! Higher failure rates. WD is getting productions difficulties – we’ve sent back far more failed new WD drives in the six months then we did the final 6 years. Also, this drive is a slug compared to its specs. Seagates are quicker, but their failure prices turned us away years ago. WDC has fallen flat in innovation in just the last three years, alternatively deciding on merely to sell what’s already created. Disapointing.

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Very quiet drive.Sufficiently rapid as a information drive, alongside two SSDs.WD five year warranty. This drive died inside a week.WD need to get their ducks in a row; I have been employing a WD6401AALS because February of 2009 in my pre-SB method and it's running perfectly. No snags, no hiccups and with good functionality to boot.And now this??Seriously WD, whatever you changed, changed it back to the way it was.I want to get another WD6401AALS, but I am not sure if I really should, with a number of reports of failure equivalent to mine.Possibly I will go with the Blue series. Newegg once again saves the day; they waved the initial restocking fee charged on the web, right after I created a call to HQ, and sent me a prepaid return label with a full refund on this item.Consumer service at its greatest. No wonder Newegg is common amongst shoppers out there.Fantastic function.

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Really rapid, excellent cache, low cost, and based on TB four-platter style. Want it had a SATA II Cable with it but oh nicely, its OEM, no egg off for this. Adore this drive in RAID0, I have two of them. Burst read/write 250 MB/s with atto benchmark. No brief-stroking. This drive is wonderful for game mass-storage, but i do not threat putting backups or an OS on a raid drive so i bought a Corsair F60, as well, for my OS. Adore this setup. I extremely recommend this item.

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Had been great when they worked good performance drives worked 7 months to the day. I had two go poor at the exact same time. Windows 7 64bit raid encrypted.

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fantastic drive, great price non however, works as advetised

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Its a tremendously excellent harddrive quiet, quickly, and appears reliable the initial a single i got was a doa, worked fine the initial ten minutes till i started to set up windows then it began lagging up and clicking, was a steady 6 clicks in a row followed by a grinding sound...was listening and the clicks were about as steady as a metronome thought whereas i was upset that i recieved a junk drive that i'd play some guitar to the clicking lol it seems with this harddrive with nearly all the reviews ive study its a hit or miss, either u get a superior one particular, or u get a undesirable one particular but it also seems like the chances of obtaining a high-quality 1 are higher then obtaining the terrible ones....take a shot and if u get the fantastic a single, u will enjoy it...and ofcourse like everyone says..its not a ssd

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Was a fantastic drives whilst it worked. Possessing Western Digital RMA this one particular, although it is under warranty and i nevertheless have to spend for the shipping? Not a great deal of a warranty if you ask me. Let's hope the subsequent one lasts longer than two years!!! Have had couple of difficulties more than the years with WD but it seems this drive has a trend of poor quality.

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Transfer speed, did the job I required it to do. I originally purchased this drive for my initially develop. It showed up with a Wise error out of the box. No major deal, its electronics, these things come about. I RMA'd by means of Newegg, and got my second a single. I was capable to use the second a single for shortly over one particular month, and then created a Wise error. Disappointing. I RMA's as soon as once again through Western Digital, only to have nevertheless another drive show up with a Intelligent error out of the box. To clarify, that is 3 drives defective, in a row. Terrible. My evaluation, like all others, is based solely on my personal experience. To any potential buyer, retain that in thoughts, you may finish up with one of the functioning drives, even though it might take a even though. Equivalent to gambling.

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Quick, super quiet, decent cache size Had difficulties installing OS, but that could have been my DVD drive. Immediately after a lot of investigation this seemed to have every little thing I wanted for the price. Good size, excellent cache, SATA three.. I'd suggest it to pals and household.

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32mb cache. Economical Not the fastest drive in the globe. But for ์ what can you expect. I require to get another one for a raid setup.

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affordable two in a row with negative sector troubles, both failed WD lifeguard software program testing. eventually windows would not even boot. will RMA for both and switching to one more brand

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Rapidly, dependable, quiet at a great cost point. none I've been utilizing absolutely nothing but WD because my second built, ten years ago. I've in no way had a disk go poor at all. Stability and reliability about my information is job ş and WD delivers. They haave a nicely segmented line of merchandise dependent on what your priority is (Green/energy vs speed, etc.)

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*faster then samsung spinpoint F3's due to more substantial cache and dual proecessor's. I.e- fastest mechanical drive's you can buy are caviar black's!. make practically no noise. run cool. and in reality are the greatest mechanical drive's you can buy none to speak of. Some say they are not raid friendly. this is NOT accurate these had been made for Raid! and i reccomend them for anybody wanting drives for a gaming personal computer!!! and in raid are a dream!

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So far it's nonetheless up and running. after some of the evaluations i was worried. This is my initial time making use of a WD drive. i typically go with Seagate. So far WD is residing up to the rep. none as of but. i'll come back if any pop up.

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Fair price tag, wd is normally my major option when it comes to hdd, in no way had a difficulty with Western digital. other then...... got 2 of these , set up in raid0 on a new build, had quite fantastic speed for the time it lasted....which was around 3 hours. 1 dropped totally, and the other kinda limped along so i sent them each back for a refund. phenom II x4 96512g gskill ddr3 1600gigabyte 890xa-ud3xfx 5850 1gig ddr5haf 912

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Ordered 2 for Raid ... Incredibly quickly and stable so far... Best you can do unless going to SSD... For this price tag will be ordering far more! None so far...

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Works extremely effectively, compose occasions are quickly, decently sized and setup is incredibly basic. none I purchased this replace my old OS drive and it performs really well.

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Westen Digital Black drive. RMA from Western Digital. Received a dud. Couldn't RMA through Newegg but no major deal. Bought this drive final October to use with my thermaltake external sata docking station for backup only. It worked fine when I initial got this drive but immediately after accessing it a handful of occasions my pc would see the drive but wouldn't assign it a drive letter. The identical case with this drive and an additional computer. Disc management showed this drive as 'Failed'. I own very a couple of WD Black drives and this is the 1st drive which failed. It was bound to take place as some point in time so I'm nonetheless rating the Black drives 5 stars.

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Fantastic Drive, Functions Rapid... None

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Depends on your luck. WD sells diverse versions of these, so it tremendously depends on your version of this model on how it will fare. I believe WD has 6 distinct versions of these. The ones I received were slow. My three year old barracuda had a small slower ƕ-10 mb/s) typical read/write than this drive. I believe the older models are the ones you want and some of the very old ones had been brief stroked to make them considerably more quickly than all the others. It seriously depends on your luck likely, but to let you know, I also received a storage green drive and that storage green drive very easily beat (by 20-25 mb/s) these two drives read/write averages. It's not all about overall performance, but it is at the start off when dependability is an undetermined.

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This drive has been running for 701 days and five hours no difficulties no bad sectors as usually western digital have usually been great drives for me!!!! None Have two of these drives in raid and hd tach benchmarks them as 155 MB/s have 2 far more on the way will report back and let you know what benchmark on that is im utilizing a mn372-d MB 940BE 4GB ram drives remain about 30C excellent drives would inform anyone to buy them

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Bought 10 of these this year not 1 single problem, all systems post on typical 20% faster not to mention quiet for all my desktop users! none.