Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB 3.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

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WD quality, quickly, quiet and dependable. Should be less costly due to the fact 1 TB really hard drives are only a couple of bucks a lot more. I bought this drive as a second drive in my rig, not set up as a Raid, but as a information drive so when I do my monthly backups, I only back up my information. I have True Image and have a backup image of the boot drive. I have applied WD drives for various years with no difficulties at all. I not too long ago had to function on a Pc that runs 24x7 in a small business atmosphere and the drive it has is an WD 80 GB drive that has been running due to the fact 2005 and I ran the WD diags and it still passes with zero errors. I have tried other brands and finish up coming back to WD. If you have luck with a particular brand, why look elsewhere. It came packaged incredibly nicely and arrived promptly.

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five year warranty and commonly quick a bit loud in my opinion.

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Fast , quiet , smooth operation. five year warrantyOutstanding price and efficiency per gb Completely none! Purchased this to replace and old 320 gig wd blue that was starting to get very loud. Speeds are slightly more rapidly, but not anything thoughts boggling. Did a lot of research weighing this with a velociraptor paired with a 1tb green drive, and Im glad I decided on this alternatively. Quickly a ssd's come down in price tag, this guy will be storage.

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This drive is labeled as an enterprise class drive but has the functionality to be utilized for video editing. Backed by a good business with an exceptional reputation. If you do have a dilemma with this drive Western Digital will cover the warranty with no making you fight for it. Just fill out a piece of paper, send it in, get an RMA, pack it up, and send it off. Inside a week you will have a replacement. Can't locate any. I guess it doesn't support SATA 6. but not a lot of individuals have a board to assistance that anyways.

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valuesizeoverall performancenewegg sold it to megot them with promo code none ...........not recommending them to good friendsup load video by no means gets posted :( i have 2 sets of these wd 640 blacks set up in raid ,in two unique machines , 1 has been up running going on a year now ,the other a few weeks ,all my rigs run WD From Green drives to raptors , been 10 years powerful , wtg WD newegg is the spot to be shootin the chat gold connectorsthats the issues you will need good looking situationsmajor hdd to see so come on down bring some pals you will have a good time you will see.

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Just about lasted a year? Had two fail much less than a year after buying. I bought two of these November 2009. Both of them failed in September 2010. They had been each replaced by Caviar Blue drives. One particular of which failed less than a month following getting installed, the other is nonetheless running, while it makes lots of noise. The failed Caviar Blue was replaced by a 1TB Caviar Black, this failed soon after less than two months of use. They just sent me a replacement drive that doesn't even work. I seriously recommend buying a challenging drive from a person other than WD.

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It looked fairly. I guess from California to Florida is also much of a trek for difficult drives to make. Most arrive inoperable to my address. It's alright although, I had one more drive, despite the fact that a DOA is really painful to deal with.Booted up, drive seemed fine till I tried to install Windows and it took about an hour to get to six%, then failed and would not display up in the technique again. Nevertheless sitting in my case, just not hooked up to something. It's unfortunate because WD has always been very good to me in the previous. I'll get it sorted, although.

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Operates perfectly. I was using this when recording BC2 with Fraps for hours (over a couple of days) on end, it only slowed when I filled the complete thing up with videos, but clearing some of them out solved that challenge, so it's hardly a con.Also tends to make a tad bit of noise when loading factors, but it's not incredibly loud and is expected.Actual HDD size comes out to 596 GB, but that's the case with each and every HDD. Cheap HDD with a lot more space than you must require, what much more could you want?

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So far 1 week into ownership and its Running Perfectly utilizing solely for the OS, and yeah i know 640 gigs with only an OS but hey its worth it None Nada Can't seriously assume of Any, no cable's but come on its a OEM if u don't read you wont know! it had 3 120mm Fans blowing on it above it and below it, soo it shouldn't more than heat at all..

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Worked fine for the final 7 months. It's not a SSD My girlfriends mother is yelling. lol.

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I purchased this to replace my five-year-old Western Digital 80GB IDE hard drive that I first built my personal computer with. Don't worry, nerds. I've because upgraded every thing else in my laptop in that 5 year period, while I'm still in the LGA 775 & DDR2 RAM epoch. lol I also still have a Pentium 4 two.8GHz HT CPU.All that aside, this is a actually rapid drive 3. Gb/s and 7200 RPM is a quick create speed. I seen with it + Windows 7 Ultimate, it just speeds up installations of programs. N/AIt was ๐.99 when I bought it in January this year. I wish I would have caught one particular of the couple of specials where they take ten% off with the promo code from the e-mails I get. Would have been cool to get a 1TB drive, but I am truly not complaining

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I've owned this for more than a year, and it's been running ever considering that. I initial employed it as my main, then year later I switched to a Raptor. So now this 1 is my second one. It's been via heavy - very hefty gaming. No difficulties at all. Good transfer rates and read/write also. None

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I have two of these drives for over 2 years and haven't had any troubles with them. Quiet and quick. none

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wonderful hd, has never had any sort of complications. loads fast only scores like a five.9 on windows index which is disappointing when all my other stuff scores 7.6 or greater. time to go for a 15000 rpm hd to increase my windows index score lol

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Just ordered my second drive. The initial has been great! Quiet and hassle totally free...The price tag has dropped significantly due to the fact my very first purchase around a year ago. 2x Client Award Winner implies I'm not alone! None, actually. I regarded as the 64MB cache models vs. SSD drives of significantly smaller sized capacity, but the price was the deciding element. If you want reliabilty and low price tag, you won't go wrong with this drive!

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Initially effortless to set up I could have written this about any size (up to 640G) black, blue, SATA (up to three.), IDE - it tends to make no distinction. It is a rare drive that does not overheat and fail inside the initially year. You can at times extend the life by attaching cooling fans directly to the dirive. I've had eight different WD drives in the final 2 years and only 2 did not fail and had to be replaced. I need to incorporate that this same circumstance happens with Seagate drives of the exact same size and performance - so if I could clone this review in many locations, I would. Low expense customer drives are, for the most component, garbage. I've been told by some people today in the sector that is the "cost" of the low cost. Really? It's OK to place junk on the market place? It's cheeper to keep replacing faulty drives below warranty? Oh, that's proper, corporations really feel that most people today would not make the work to warranty replace at this value point. They'll just obtain once more! We are becoming duped.

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This drive scores a 5.9 on the Windows Practical experience Index, which I think is the highest score a mechanical difficult drive can attain. At 7200 RPM, the two 320GB platters provide great overall performance. Whilst you shouldn't anticipate this harddrive to be unrealistically /amazing/, you can count on it to execute quite well and be dependable. None so far! Please understand that a binary GB is 1024ί under SI, while IEC GB is 1000ί. So in order to calculate binary GB you require to apply the formula,000,000,000 / 񡺀񦲠񦲠) = 596.04GB. Don't mistakenly count on 640GB to show up in 'My Personal computer'. It's a typical misconception.

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It has a lot of storage so if you don't want to put all your eggs in one particular cart I feel this is the way to go. None

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its a great hard drive, great speed and and dependable (if it functions). excellent space too i purchased two hard drives and 1 of them is negative so im taking that back, other than that, its a great challenging drive

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Does the job! None

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Owned for practically two years now and it's still going sturdy. Straightforward install from day one and has survived the move from my old pc to my new construct. I have no complaints. I really can't say if the HDD is noisy due to the fact I don't have a lot of other reference points. It's feasible that it is, even though, due to the fact my case with all of its fans is fairly loud, and I can hear the HDD regardless. But DEFINETLY not anything out of the ordinary. Good and trustworthy manufacture. Just bought a 1TB drive last night and program to make this infant my slave drive and ride it out till it provides out, which if its ongoing results is any indication, won't be for a lengthy time.

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Excellent value - Major buffer - More rapidly than my prior HD Noise - sounds like gargling even when not reading. It reminds me of the epoch of these massive 10MB HDD that occupied a five 1ǚ" bays in the computer

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Ran nice at the fresh set up then immediately after 24 hours problems began under windows 7. Now drive clicks and wont allow anything to touch it. Brief life span... If the Intelligent method is constructed in it would appear a bit much more like it ought to be referenced as the DUMB system for not even a alert for pending failures...

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extremely rapidly for a standard (non-SSD) drive. this 640GB model even has a extremely slight speed benefit more than the other sized drives in this precise very same solution line (has to do with the trays). quiet. trusted. I've bought five of these, with out a single difficulty however. working with them as primary drive in 4 separate higher-end custom builds (& one create has two in it), all five drives are nonetheless trouble-totally free they aren't perpetually on sale (in other words, no cons!) -regarding sales, these days 50-55 is the price tag zone where I only can't resist buying these drives (as of the date of this review)-caviar black drives have a extended 5-year warranty, that must tell you some thing-want a larger drive? then purchase some other (presumably slower) drive for massive storage space, but use this 640GB as your speedy main drive!!-the initial rock-solid 5-egg evaluation I have ever provided!

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Quiet and usually reliable. Four eggs is generous with 50% failure. Cost was good shipping was free but that doesn't make up for one defective drive. On an order of two for a new create the drive with the operating technique failed immediately after 36 hours. The defective drive is on the way back to Newegg through RMA for a replacement. Maintaining this running continuously for the rest of the week ahead of I activate (register) Windows 7.