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| Brand: | Western Digital |
| Item Height : | 27 millimetres |
| Item Width: | 10.2 centimetres |
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| Processor Count: | 1 |
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| Wattage: | 8.77 watts |
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Cool, quiet and fast. WD Caviar Blue drives offer superior performance and reliability, making them ideal for business and family desktops.
Product Description
500GB WD ATA133 7200rpm 16MB Hard Drive
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
I upgraded my Sky+ box with this 500GB HDD, and everything works totally fine, not noisey at all. Would recommend this drive to upgrade your Sky+ box, which is very easy to do. Just replace the HDD and do a full system reset and wait about an hour.
I had one of the original 40GB boxes which was tiny and soon filled up, not ideal for family use, 20 hours storage soon fills up.
Now I have more than 10 times the previous limit, approx 250 hours (!) Makes a big difference and no longer have any issues recording and time-shifting for the whole families needs.
This upgrade has brought a new lease of life into an old box and is even better than the new PVR3 boxes which have 160GB, but actually only have 80GB of personal use as the other 80GB is used for Sky Anytime. A nice feature but pity owners don't have the option to decide what they would prefer, Sky Anytime versus more storage space for own use.
If you have an old Sky+ box, get frustrated by the lack of space to record, then you won't regret this drive to upgrade. Just do it and enjoy the freedom to record what you want and watch when you want, as it was intended, not how much space do I have left!
I had one of the original 40GB boxes which was tiny and soon filled up, not ideal for family use, 20 hours storage soon fills up.
Now I have more than 10 times the previous limit, approx 250 hours (!) Makes a big difference and no longer have any issues recording and time-shifting for the whole families needs.
This upgrade has brought a new lease of life into an old box and is even better than the new PVR3 boxes which have 160GB, but actually only have 80GB of personal use as the other 80GB is used for Sky Anytime. A nice feature but pity owners don't have the option to decide what they would prefer, Sky Anytime versus more storage space for own use.
If you have an old Sky+ box, get frustrated by the lack of space to record, then you won't regret this drive to upgrade. Just do it and enjoy the freedom to record what you want and watch when you want, as it was intended, not how much space do I have left!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
When I opened the antistatic bag I found that the IDE connector had been crushed and the plastic skirt was broken. However, all of the pins were still straight, so I went ahead and tested the drive which appeared to be fine. I have now installed it and it works great. Just hope that whatever happened to it in storage/transit has not affected the drive mechanism, and that it will last! I would have given a 5 star review if the product had been undamaged.
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful
I bought this in order to upgrade the capacity of the hard drive in my Sky+ box. The current Sky+ boxes come with a 160gb hard drive of which only 80gb is used for personal space. Fairly large but quickly used up if you use your Sky+ box for timeshifting. Timeshifting is basically recording everything you want to watch and then only watching what you record when you want to watch it as opposed to when it is broadcast. Now I never have to worry about running out of space. When I got it, I just hooked up my old Sky+ drive to my computer, copied the data and then hooked up the new drive and copied it there, slapped it into my Sky+ box, worked first time. The only negative point that I have noticed is that when I am watching something and then fast forward or rewind, I can hear the drive seeking, it's actually quite prominent. But it does only happen when doing this and since there's no sound from the TV when you're doing this anyway, it doesn't spoil the entertainment and at any rate, it's still quieter than doing the same thing with a VHS and not much worse than doing it with a DVD. Definately recommended for this use.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Just what you'd expect
It's hard to review a piece of kit like this ... it was easy to install (but that was down to the case design) ... it works, it doesn't make a disproportionate amount of noise. Read more
Published 18 months ago by B. Ketteridge
Works In Sky Plus Box, But not perfect.
This works with a skyplus box, but it gets hot and the fan go on full often, which means its quite noisey. oh yes its not easy to get it to work either...ie. Read more
Published 22 months ago by A. Thirkettle
Good for failed La Cie drives
This is a useful 'old spec' device which works in a La Cie case where the original HD has died, but the case is OK. Read more
Published 23 months ago by D.F.G.
Brilliant
usually use seagate for buisness and personal unless customer otherwise stipulates customer wanted this product for upgrade of dell dimension 3000 from 40 GB to 500 GB product... Read more
Published on 28 Jan 2010 by Mr. John Donnelly
tentative satisfaction
I have labelled this "Tentative satisfaction" because it is in its packaging still BUT It WAS sent promptly AND it was well packaged - if all my purchases were that way then I... Read more
Published on 10 Oct 2009 by Mr. John W. Evans
Just what it says on the tin!
Disk arrived on time. Was installed with no trouble into my caddy and instantly recognised by XP.
Published on 19 July 2009 by Graham Gerrard
you refused to supply
You refused supply this product after having taken payment for it.In the view of my credit card company you are not a "reputable company" and do not care about acting in clear... Read more
Published on 8 Jun 2009 by Mr. J. L. Dearing
disaster
courier needed two attempts to deliver it as it wasn't royal mail, what a big mistake as there was no depot near. when i finally got it, it wasn't the product as advertised. Read more
Published on 5 Jun 2009 by Mr. G. A. Smith
not very impressed
I was expecting this to be quieter but it makes even slightly more noise than my old hard drive which is a Hitachi Deskstar 120GB, 7200RPM that came with a Dell pc that I bought in... Read more
Published on 3 April 2008 by marcello
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