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Western Digital Caviar Blue 160GB 3.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

Western Digital Caviar Blue 160GB 3.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive (Western Digital: WD1600AAJS)
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Western Digital Caviar Blue 160GB 3.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
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Rating: 9.14/10
Buzz
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Review Date: 09/17/13
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It's a functioning tough drive, for not considerably money. This is my new computers bottleneck, bringing my new personal computer's Window's experience score down to a five.2. If you are building a rig, and hunting for energy, get a faster drive. But do you actually require a lot more?
Vlora
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Review Date: 09/02/13
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The drives are extremely basic and is at a fantastic value point for white box develop outs in a corporate environment. Of every single ten drives we order, 4 of them look to be bad. We have noticed newegg.com packaging these quite loosely and causing great drives to be broken by the time it arrives at our corporate workplace. Some of my techs have noticed that even bubble wrap has been omitted, or static bags are opened or resealed. This is certainly unacceptable and we'll be taking our small business elsewhere quickly.I can't fault western digital for this one, specifically considering that all of the failed drives have the precise very same issue. Just RMA'd three drives to newegg, and they only let me RMA 2 mainly because "serials didn't match to order number". OK. I'm a corporate buyer. I have Numerous PO's. Considering that newegg.com has no way of tracking the serial numbers to the order numbers, or to the PO's we send them there is no way to inform if they are suitable or wrong. Now I'm out of a drive and have a deploy date inside a week. Thanks newegg....
Aislin
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Review Date: 08/31/13
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every thing Western Digital claims is accurate!stays around 30 C to 42 C with no fan on it. none I like the SATA cables and will not miss the IDE ones.
Bedros
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Review Date: 08/29/13
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This is like my 5th 1 of these I've bought for my most recent system build. These are strong trustworthy drives! It's not cost-free? Can't truly say something else. These are good drives!
Nami
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Review Date: 08/27/13
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I place this in a price range gaming make for a pal; you'll uncover no regrets here. None.
Teige
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Review Date: 08/25/13
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Low cost and easily replaceable. The business I do desktop help for gets Lenovo PCs that use these drives. Out of each and every 20 PCs I can safely say half of these drives fail within 6 months time. We are continually replacing these under warranty.The trigger of failure is unknown, but out of the blue the laptop will stop booting. Further investigation reveals the drive is no longer detected by the machine, however nevertheless has power. This points to a SATA failure in the drive itself. As extended as you're lucky and get a good drive these genuinely aren't negative. If you plan to get them, get in bulk and be ready to RMA half of them just before a single year.
Xander
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Review Date: 08/21/13
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Operating quick and quiet like all my prior WD harddrives have!!! only had it a lil although Newegg rockz!!!
Ea
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Review Date: 08/11/13
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Functions well, very good Win Exp scoreValue Comes Unformatted/Unpartitioned Ordered for new homebuilt. Bios right away recognized the drive, Windows 7 Installer would not see it. Had to use Linux tool to partition and format, then Win 7 64 bit lastly picked it up. Moral: It's actually, actually a bare drive. Make sure your partition and format are appropriate by bootable cd prior to attempting to install windows.
Zeke
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Review Date: 07/21/13
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Drive was cheap Drive failed about a year following initial installation on a machine that was only use very lightly. 1st drive I have had fail in more than a decade
Kirit
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Review Date: 07/18/13
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Excellent reputable and fast. ...lemme get back to you in 10 years when it may possibly actualy fail... I'll have backed it up by then
Carmela
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Review Date: 06/26/13
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Nice drive for the value We ordered Qty five of these drives for a client and three of the five drives have been DOA.
Shanae
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Review Date: 06/22/13
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Pretty straightforward - solid drive, as quickly as advertised, inexpensive, easy to install, and so on. Had one particular DOA, but replacement was no dilemma. Newegg return policy is strong, although shipping charges are :( presently.
Giulia
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Review Date: 06/09/13
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Typical WD BLUE good quality. Works great, quick and was straightforward to set up. None at all
Sven
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Review Date: 05/29/13
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Works effectively, just like I'd expect from WD and the cost is decent. none. I ordered 94 of these for builds my dept. was undertaking for our company and I had zero DOA's and not a a single has so a lot as a terrible sector. They have been in use for roughly 5 months at this time.
Abraham
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Review Date: 05/22/13
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Got 3 on four-ten-2007. Running in Raid for 3 years under no circumstances reinstalled win xp or had a difficulty or bad sector. Nonetheless quiet. The 3rd a single went in a youngsters pc fo rthe OS with no troubles either. Not actually a con. I paid 54 each and every plus shipping. Single Platter. This is the a single Tomshardware was testing that beat a single raptor in Raid . The coolest drives produced, all that yahoo. I have yet to see a negative WD personally. Noticed lots of other people with a capital S. There is constantly a chance of DOA Fedx assists the odds.
Kalinda
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Review Date: 05/14/13
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Fkn Ausome gereat no probs um uhhhhh.... hahah i dont consider...
Rance
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Review Date: 05/04/13
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* Quiet* Quick [SATA 3Gb, 7200 RPM]* Cool [see below]* CheapThis was a close to-ideal decision for my HTPC construct as I was seeking for a main OS drive that was quickly, cool and quiet. I am running this drive in a Silverstone LC-17B case that has just two-80mm fans in the back and beneath load this drive runs below 38C. Comparatively I have a WD drive in my main Computer with a 120mm fan intake in front of it that runs at 28C beneath load.The drive is small, even so, that was all I was interested in - a primary drive to hold Win7 and some applications for preserving and playing my DVD and Music library. Initially I had wanted a Flash/SSD drive but the cost for those are still too high. None Not SATA 6.0Gb, but for the price tag I can't complain.HTPC Make:Case: Silverstone LC-17BPSU: Antec EA-430D [Earthwatts, 80-plus Bronze]MoBo: Gigabyte 880GMA-UD2HCPU: AMD Athlon II X2 Regor 255 three.1 GHz Dual CoreRAM: 4GB dual-channel G.Talent F3-12800CL9D-4GBNQOptical: Lite-On 8x Blu-ray Disc Combo, SATAOS drive: WD1600AAJS 160GB Caviar Blue, SATAStorage: 2x WD15EARS 1.5TB Green Drives, SATAInput: IOGEAR two.4GHz Wireless On-Lap Keyboard
Carlton
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Review Date: 05/04/13
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+ Affordable+ Fast+ SATA+ Good $/GB+ Western Digital+ 7200RPM A tad noisy, but that doesn't bother me at all. Working with this in a USB enclosure for my backups. Very speedy. Seems weird not having to fuss with jumper settings and slave/master drive priorities like with IDE drives.I will use it as my Files drive in my new build which will have SATA. :)Then I'll put my old 320GB IDE into the enclosure for backups. ^_^
Acton
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Review Date: 04/09/13
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I in fact cannot think how quiet this drive has been. Of course it has been nearly five years considering that I final constructed a computer, but still... The overall performance is wonderful and the set up was uncomplicated. Not a 16MB cache, but at the price I paid, I won't complain. Other than that, there are no cons. Certainly a drive to get if you're developing a new method and don't want to devote an arm and a leg to get a new HDD. Tends to make a wonderful main drive for OS and Programs.
Carsyn
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Review Date: 04/08/13
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Works Specifically as it must. Simple Install. None so far, I've had it for two months or so. Partitioned, with one particular drive in continual use, and it operates great.
Cynara
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Review Date: 04/08/13
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Quick. None. Little, but I didn't obtain it for space. Seagate's are terrible.
Lidia
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Review Date: 04/02/13
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Functioning. Setup in RAID 1 None Only gave 4 eggs just simply because I'm certain it's not best equipment that would final me forever. Eventually I'll will need to replace more than time
Usoa
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Review Date: 03/30/13
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It's a cool drive (unlike the a single it replaced), a nice drive (unlike the a single it replaced), and a drive that doesn't want a massive house fan blowing on it at complete speed to cool it nicely (unlike the 1 it replaced). The stupid low-cost junk Seagate it replaced was going 121 F average, 123 F max I assume. To make that issue cool down at all you'll will need a home fan blowing on it. I bought this with a WD2500AAJS challenging drive (and some fans) to replace the low cost burning-hot junk Seagate that employed to be in an HP MediaSmart EX475. It operates wonderful, the Seagate will now remain in a box with numerous other challenging drives.This drive runs nicely at area temp till you use it for a when, which it gets around 𞲞 F. This issue is not nicely cooled at all, and you certainly will practical experience diverse results even if you had a low-RPM low-CFM 80mm fan in front of this HDD. Just acquire it, don't take into account Seagate's selections, unless you like spending over 迀 receiving your information recovered.
Orville
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Review Date: 03/25/13
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Incredibly trusted, I have had it for three years now and never any corruption troubles. Under no circumstances notice any sound so ought to be quiet as well. Not the quickest drive, but descend for its price tag
Vartouhi
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Review Date: 03/17/13
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These 160 gig SATA really hard drives are my selection for new builds they do what I want cost is low and have not had 1 die on me yet and this was my 8 make employing them. none They function untill they get old then die.
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Product Features

Western Digital WD1600AAJS Caviar Blue Hard Drive
Offering capacities as large as 160 GB, the Western Digital high-performance family of Hard Drives is equipped with a sizeable 8 MB buffer for quick data delivery.

Western Digital WD1600AAJS Caviar Blue Hard Drive Serial ATA hard drives have the features and capacities that are ideal for next-generation computers and low-end enterprise storage. Users benefit from a data transfer rate of 300 MB/s and an improved cabling that enables greater system design flexibility. Designers of enterprise storage systems and servers are increasingly using desktop-class, large-capacity SATA hard drives because of the advantages that the SATA interface provides.

This Drive Holds
- 40 two-hour DVD-quality movies or
- 160 hours of VHS-quality video or
- 110 days of around-the-clock MP3 audio or
- 40,000 vivid digital photos or
- 228 action-packed games!

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Product Specifications

Model
BrandWestern Digital
SeriesCaviar SE
ModelWD1600AAJS
Performance
InterfaceSATA 3.0Gb/s
Capacity160GB
RPM7200 RPM
Cache8MB
Average Seek Time8.9ms
Average Latency4.2ms
Physical Spec
Form Factor3.5"
Features
FeaturesCool - Cool operation results in the highest reliability, even in intensely hot environments such as digital video recorders. That\'s why these, the coolest on the market, are the drives of choice for the world\'s leading consumer electronics and PC manufacturers. Quiet - The technology that Tom\'s Hardware Guide called "very fast and nearly silent" is used throughout this family of drives. Our WhisperDrive technology minimizes noise to levels near the threshold of human hearing. To cut seek noise, SoftSeek technology streamlines read/write seeking algorithms, resulting in more efficient operation.
Manufacturer Warranty
Parts3 years limited
Labor3 years limited

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