Western Digital SE16 500GB SATA2 7200RPM 16MB Cache 8.9MS NCQ Hard Drive

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Quiet, solid performance. Exactly what I anticipated from Western digital. As often. practically nothing Ideal for a middle range computer. If you require top rated performance, go with a western digital Black drive alternatively.

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Performs beautifully and fast. Had it for a couple months now. Choice of SATA or that OTHER energy cable... ;] It doesn't bake cakes. Genuinely, it's a strong HDD. Obtain it if you don't will need to shop fallacious amounts of stuff.

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Quiet, trusted. Win7 installed with no troubles. None. Got this as aspect of a Computer develop for a pal. Had no issues with it whatsoever, but this is what I've come to anticipate from WD.

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Last Forever! Can not sing or dance I bought two of these for a RAID set up and they are good. I have utilized WD for YEARS and have never once had one fail. I have a really really hard time believing people are receiving DOA challenging drives on a consistant basis.

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Low-cost drive with excellent speed. I bought 8 of these drives for two towers I was working on. 2 of the eight have failed, 1 immediately after about six months, the other at just more than a year. Hard drives have always been a hit and miss item when creating computers. In all the computers I've ever built nonetheless, I've by no means had a 25% failure price in a one particular year period on any other model of difficult drive. I would steer clear of this model.

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Runs cool and really quiet. Incredibly excellent price tag at NewEgg totally none I was so impressed with this drive that I purchased five and replaced the drives in all of my computers. All are operating wonderful.

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-Disk functions-Disk is quiet and generates minimal heat-Disk passed an substantial badblocks test None at this point. I previously purchased a set of four 400 GB Western Digital disks on the net (they were about three years old, employed), but a single of the disks failed to spin up upon arrival. This serves as my substitute for the failed disk, and there hasn't been any hiccups thus far. I don't know regardless of whether or not I need to format the other one hundred GB of space on this disk, due to the fact that's at the moment unused. Only 400 GB is formatted to maintain conformity with the other disks in the array.

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Great Top quality, Its a really hard drive... Western Digital is the only Really hard drive mfg I trust these days.NewEgg client Service is awesome! they refunded my 1st DOA drive with less than 3 minutes on the phone when I was driving. So.... I bought more drives! My shoppers rave how considerably more quickly their desktops are now... just from a tough drive replacement. Initial drive recvd was DOA, no other cons Western Digital Drives are the ONLY drive I use in any technique. From desktops to servers. Buy the correct drive for the correct application and you will be pleased. Cheaper isn't usually much better.

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Good value, I bought two of these and set up RAID boots my desktop (Win 7 property premium) below 60seconds. None When producing a VHD got upwards of 240MB/s watching resource monitor

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Amusing item overview. None I am pleased with this drive.

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Excellent Price tag for a great size drive. as constantly WD makes the best drives. no other HDD has lasted as extended and noise cost-free as these. I have been acquiring Caviar blacks but the blue series is priced so properly and most evaluations rate them well I believed I would give it a attempt. replaced a SE****e 320 with this 500 and my Windows Experiance jumped from 5.9 to 6.1. not enormous but the ideal score I have seen to date from a drive. None but. Newegg.... I have to tell ya that apparently you do study and respond to your personal feedback. Ideal JOB EVER ON SHIPPING!!! The drive I recieved was wrapped in bubble wrap, inside a cardboard package, inside packing peanuts and effectively tapped in a shipping box. so several critiques slam you for the hap hazard way OEM drives are sent but I felt like genuine work was made. And the time it took to recieve my purchace has enhanced more than the final 3 weeks. Thanks Newegg... Merely the greatest!!!

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Pretty quickly for a HDD(typical 5.9 W7 Index if you care about that stuff). Never had any problems with the two that I've bought more than the past year and a half. Nada If I ever lose one or fry one, I'll update this review about longevity of the drive, but it will possibly be deactivated by then. SSD are the way to go these days, yet another year and you'll be capable to get a 500g ssd for 贄.

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quiet reliable lots of space. ive got 3 of these on three different machines, and they have yet to let me down. none so far shipping took forever but you get what you for there for positive

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None DOA - Dead on arrival. won't format, won't install OS.Poor client service RMA course of action was not at all acceptable. After finding RMA approval I sent the item back only to have New-egg technicians say the serial quantity is missing?!? Why would I send it back if I tampered with it? Subsequent, they shipped it back to me, for cost-free (ONLY Very good Thing). When I received it the really hard drive was pristine (Label perfectly legible, not peeled, and serial quantity suitable there, like from factory except that it was still DOA. Immediately after an on the net chat all I got was a "sorry we can't help you." Even after offering to send a picture of the drive with label in tact. They didn't even want to assist at this point and stated "thats not essential, but thank you for contacting us."So recap, buy solution and if its broken you are so out of luck even if it's completely not your fault and you as an end user do every thing right.Other thoughts - Spent way much more income to ship it back than if I had to "drive back to the retailer."

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Stuck it in the computer system and place Windows Vista on it in a matter of minutes. None

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my key drive is a caviar black, i use this for media. tad slower than the black but not a huge deal.. does the job. none

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None Arrived DOA, won't boot just clicks. Ran Data Lifeguard tools and the drive has a read element failure. Won't boot up makes clicking noise. Ran WD Dataguard Tools on it. Diagnostic plan from WD Says : "Read Element Failure Code This drive need to be replaced" I tried it on 2 distinct computer systems and neither can boot this or even will recognize it. I was tempted by the price, nonetheless now soon after reading how a lot of persons have had this identical dilemma, I want I had sprung a couple of a lot more dollars for the seagate or the black edition. Newegg like always is getting excellent during the approach of RMAing it.

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Quiet, rapidly low-cost. None so far. I have installed this drive as a backup location for Win 7 in a number of computers. No complaints so far.For a new build I would invest a handful of a lot more bucks and get a WD black 6 GB with a 5 year warranty. This drive has a 3 year warranty so I use it for lighter duty than a program drive. I've installed this as a program drive as a replacement in systems that are 3 years old or older because it will quite likely outlive the rest of the program.

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Drive seems incredibly quick and quiet. Runs a tiny warm, make sure to give it some airflow.

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It's a hard drive, it retailers my OS, applications, files. It does what I want it to do. I got a blue not a black, it's not an SSD. It does what I want it to do for the price tag i paid.

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Quickly, quiet. so far dependable. None Purchased to replace 1 that was thought to be practically dead. Located out the technique had more difficulties than the hard drive. So, I constructed a new program about this one particular.

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WD 500 GB HD utilized for OS/primary drive for Win7. Rapid & seamless set up. None Western Digital once again is consistently highest top quality manufacturer on the market place. And again their HDs have confirmed to be the most durable and dependable within their price tag group.

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three yr warranty....sata3. gbs 16mbcache ..wd is my drive of option for good quality and sustainability, most drives final longer than anticipated ... none so far ... i liked the name blue caviar ...it helped in deciding with my purchase

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It functions. It's 500 gigs. It's 7200 rpm. It's WD. A small on the noisy side compared to my 750 gig caviar black but that's to be anticipated with this level of HDD. I can hear it when in awhile over my front intake fan that's on the noisy side, so I would envision I would hear it even a lot more if the fan wasn't so loud. It was less costly to purchase the 500 gig vs the 160 gig caviar blue with shipping figured in, so retain that in mind if you are looking to get.

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Came nicely wrapped and packaged. Put into case and windows 7 was installing. No challenges at all. I've always bought Western Digital. None.