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

500GB Western Digital Caviar Green SATAII-300 IntelliPower 32Mb OEM (: WD5000AADS)
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500GB Western Digital Caviar Green SATAII-300 IntelliPower 32Mb OEM
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Very Good
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Rating: 7.97/10
Shadow
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Review Date: 09/13/13
Comment:
Good storage for the value. Hooked drive up and had no troubles at all. Neweggs darn sales. I purchased this drive to make a computer system for my mother and no less than a week later newegg had, if I bear in mind correctly, a 1TB drive for 49.99. Only problem I had
Quinlan
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Review Date: 09/10/13
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It was low-cost and its pretty rapid. I use it as a secondary drive to preserve videos and photos. None thus far. I don't know why some users stated it was slow, it's really not.
Tosca
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Review Date: 08/24/13
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Reasonably quickly, cheap, quiet, 32mb cache, sata 3Gbs, cool operating, decent capacity N/A I've had no problems with this drive in the five months I've owned it. Perfect in a mid-range computer. I appear to recall reading someplace that these drives do not operate well in a raid configuration.
Alawi
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Review Date: 08/04/13
Comment:
It's quiet. The larger Caviar Green drives are a better worth in terms of expense per gigabyte. I installed this tough drive into a HTPC develop and it has worked effectively for that goal. I wouldn't hesitate to use these drives again in builds that prioritize silence over high overall performance.
Avongara
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Review Date: 08/03/13
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Even though it worked, it worked excellent. Bought 7ቪቦDead 9ǞቦWas only utilized for storage. Quite couple of study/writes soon after initial data back up. Decided to one day not work.Be warned. See cons. Feel Twice, then consider once more.
Eudora
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Review Date: 08/01/13
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None so far DOA, Ever so Angry
Mirabelle
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Review Date: 07/27/13
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Really quite. The drive is 500 GB, never ever thought I would fill it, but I really started to get down to the final one hundred GBs as time went on. This drive has been a actually very good drive for the time that I have owned it, and I can honestly say it has been by way of quite a bit. (my rig is almost constantly on, it is often being employed, even when I am gone, and it has been dropped a couple instances but that was my fault :P ) All round, I am pleased, but I believe that this drive is finally meeting its maker... Over the past month of my ownership, the drive has began to "fail." I am now bearing witness to the famous hangs that this drive suffers from when it is starting to die. These hangs result in the complete method to lock up entirely except for the mouse. These moments can final anywhere from 20-30 seconds all the way up to 3-5 minutes. As my computer system is stuck in 1 of these episodes, CTRL-ALT-DEL is a hopeful want. I am nonetheless utilizing this drive right now, but the hangs are just obtaining worse and worse. All scans that I have run come back as OK. There are no negative sectors, and it is seriously cool to the toucn. It is not even making any sounds.... If any of you out there are arranging on acquiring this drive, believe twice, appear at your alternatives and then choose. This is a great drive indeed, but it is not a standard everyday use drive. This is some thing to place in your computer system to have music, videos, photographs, or any other type of typical documents. This is not to have an operating technique on, or to be loaded up with games that require continuous disk reading. Be careful when obtaining your tough drives. It's not a poor drive, just don't make the same mistake I did and kill a fantastic drive that wasn't even intended to do what I continue to place it by way of.P.S. I will most likely be obtaining a WD 1TB Black Caviar to replace this and then set this peticular drive in as a backup for my information, as it nonetheless reads okay.
Kaethe
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Review Date: 07/27/13
Comment:
price, decent shipping obtaining to pay to return this at my expense, if you sell a defective product, back it up with paying to ship it back. Identified by computer system, then when formatting it with WD personal tools, it froze in the middle with an error. Could not even finish the fast test with WD's own computer software. I have yet another in a various program appears fine for now.
Nam
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Review Date: 07/24/13
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big, inexpensive, and quiet. purchased two with windows xp set up doing the format it took about an hour and 20 minutes. but thats a complete format. i could have carried out the fast. and did on the other one. shipping took forever and newegg took two complete days to ship it. all of monday and most of tuesday. i ordered it on sunday.
Duncan
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Review Date: 07/20/13
Comment:
Does what's its supposed to do. I bought this for much more space in addition to my old really hard drive from like, ahead of 2005. It feels faster than the old a single, which it in all probability is.It is really rather, at least when it is installed proper next to my old 1. I can't hear it outside the case. Though it is 500gb, it is actually around 460gb, which is a lot of space i could use because that difference is 20% of my older tough drive.Did not come with a sata cable. Even though it is my opinion, i believe that tough drives must come with the cables, just saying. In the course of installation, i was attempting to fit it into what i believed was the bay for tough drives. It turned out it wasn't. Although the bay had the correct width, it was not for putting anything in. Right after i realized this, i hit myself a couple occasions just before jamming it in anyway. I lodged in amongst a couple inward facing metal pegs. Immediately after that, i taped the challenging drive in place. I started it up and it functions fine. I just have to not bother the computer case xD
Bing
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Review Date: 07/12/13
Comment:
- Fast drive (write/read speeds inside 20ms).- Super quiet, had to put my ear next to it in order to hear it.- Does what it advertises. - After 3 months of possessing Windows XP Pro on it, I started acquiring periodic pauses that would stop almost everything except the mouse and would last up to a minute. At very first I believed it was some thing else, but I learned it was the difficult drive when I was in Linux one particular time and the IOWait for the drive elevated to 100% when I attempted to study a single of my files and it didn't drop down until about a minute later (the Same time it took when booted in Windows XP).- The drive finally failed three weeks ago, with it jumping in and out of my Phoenix AwardBIOS's auto-detection system. - Wonderful drive to use for external USB.- Don't use it for longtime internal storage.- The Sensible technology works fantastic on the drive, but won't declare any sectors as negative even soon after a failed write has been carried out to a undesirable sector.
Celestyn
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Review Date: 07/07/13
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Reliable. Quiet. Low Power/Low Heat/Less want for annoying Pc case fans. None. I now own three bare Western Digital green drives. I've never had a dilemma or complaint. My laptop specifications to not demand ultimate drive speed, so I can't speak for that.
Penha
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Review Date: 06/29/13
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It is Western Digital.I have 2 of these, there are eggcellent drives. None.
Kailas
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Review Date: 06/22/13
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Effortless to set up, capacity, good quality and cost none I replaced an old 40Gb PATA HD with this 500GB SATA and it practically flies in comparisson with the old 1, my Pc is an old optiplex desktop but with all the upgrades like this new HD, 3Gb RAM, DVD burner and Graphics card (all of them from newegg) now it runs Windows 7 ultimate smoothly and pretty fast, maybe it is not the fastest and newest pc about but for my purposes it does an outstanding job! ! !!
Kamilah
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Review Date: 06/15/13
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Trustworthy low power applied in a slim desktop. I have three WD20EARS in a drobo none have failed. Price per GB not the greatest but it was for a family computer system and it didn't need to have 1.5 TB. Good drives excellent overall performance.
Nieve
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Review Date: 06/04/13
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Significantly less than 40 bucks with promo code!Speedy shippingSaves the planet Greatest complaint: Didn't come with cables. -1 eggNot loud, but not silent eitherDoesn't seriously save the planet, just a little energy. At that price tag I couldn't not get one particular... or two.
Kayleen
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Review Date: 05/06/13
Comment:
There have been No Pro's with this drive. Total piece of garbage. Initially drive died in 2 weeks. Western Digital replaced and 2nd drive died around 2-three months. They replaced that drive and sent another and it went maybe six months and that 1 died. The final replacement is nevertheless going but I have no trust in it. Any firm can have 1 drive die, but this a lot of is sad. Don't fully grasp how all of the other people can have good luck with this drive. I believe being on the fourth drive is not just my undesirable luck.
Cynara
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Review Date: 04/20/13
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lots of space for a low value. none would rather spend the small added and get the black edition drives.Bought this drive for a media center Pc, and it functions wonderful.
Geraldo
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Review Date: 04/19/13
Comment:
Price, Quality Non Great HD for the price tag. 500 Gb is lots for most people. Rapid and is produced with excellent top quality supplies. Def recommend
Tandice
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Review Date: 04/18/13
Comment:
Low-cost 500gb HDD and its from WD which from my experince made decent HDD's. as great none to believe of Im working with this HDD to get me off the ground with getting a decent laptop. Whats going to finish up taking place is ima get a SSD drive for my OS and this a single will turn into the storage disk
Kahlilia
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Review Date: 04/03/13
Comment:
Got my funds back. DOA drive. Delayed my system build.
Buck
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Review Date: 04/03/13
Comment:
Large capacity.Low cost.Nearly silent.Runs cool. None. Replaced an old 80GB WD drive I applied for a lot of years. This 1 expense the identical, but has six times the capacity. I applied WD's Acronis software and it installed completely.Some reviews indicate it may well be a little slower, but I guess it's all relevant. Compared to what I was employing, it's more quickly, quieter, cooler, and less costly. I'm quite happy.
Dorian
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Review Date: 03/25/13
Comment:
Price rocked, for 500 gig drive. Good Drive wile it was operating. Negative Sectors in beneath six months. Fresh set up on window7 just about nothing at all else put on the computer system soon after that for 5 months employed to watch films and check emails. Random restarts started a week ago out of the blue. Hope Wd assists me out on this a single.
Justine
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Review Date: 03/19/13
Comment:
Excellent Quiet, Cool Difficult Drive None!
Rian
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Review Date: 03/08/13
Comment:
More quickly than the 7200RPM drive I had before in each read and create speeds.Cheap.Beastly for โ. -Really runs at 4995RPM but hey, it works greater than the Seagate I had.-Wasn't free of charge.-Should have purchased 2 (or maybe ten? :D).-Could do with double the cache but I ain't complaining. I have had this drive via a lot of systems; Optiplex GX280, custom with GAEP45-U3P and E3200, Optiplex 755, and now and Optiplex 960. Work phenomenally even following 3 years of continual usage. now serve as my video drive for films and Tv and such. As for the DOA predicament, I purchased it from Finest Get so it worked completely fine out of the box. The complete DOA predicament would be fixed if Newegg would cease promoting bare drives and package them greater (I received a laptop drive that was certainly horrible situation when I got it...) items would alter. But it would be up to them. Every thing else I have gotten off the egg is awesome even following three years.
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Product Specifications

General Information
Manufacturer:Western Digital Corporation
Manufacturer Part Number:WD5000AADS
Manufacturer Website Address:www.westerndigital.com/
Brand Name:Western Digital
Product Line:Caviar Green
Product Model:WD5000AADS
Product Name:Caviar Green WD5000AADS Hard Drive
Product Type:Hard Drive
Technical Information
Storage Capacity:500 GB
Platform Support:PC
Drive Performance
Maximum External Data Transfer Rate:300 MBps
Rotational Speed:7200 rpm
Buffer:32 MB
Interfaces/Ports
Hard Drive Interface:1 x 7-pin Serial ATA/300 Serial ATA
Physical Characteristics
Form Factor:Internal
Compatible Drive Bay Width:3.5"
Hot Swappable:Yes
Height:26 mm
Width:102 mm
Depth:147 mm
Weight:730 g

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