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Western Digital Caviar 500GB SATA II 32MB Cache Dual Processor 3.5 inch Black Internal Hard Drive OEM


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Technical Details
BrandWestern Digital
Item Weight730 g
Product Dimensions14.7 x 10.2 x 2.5 cm
Item model numberWD5001AALS
Hard Drive Size500 GB
  
Additional Information
ASINB001GQYYSG
Best Sellers Rank 71,218 in Computers & Accessories (See top 100)
Shipping Weight862 g
Date First Available16 Oct 2008
  
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WD Caviar Black drives combine a high performance electronics architecture with a rock solid mechanical architecture to deliver the perfect storage solution for your fully-loaded PC or maxed out gaming machine
Cool drive operation, no-touch head technology, and leading-edge vibration protection ensure enhanced reliability and sustained data throughput
It's ideal for power computing applications such as multimedia, video and photo editing, and maxed out gaming computers

 
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 Product Description WD Caviar Black WD5001AALS - hard drive - 500 GB - SATA-300 
 Type Hard drive - internal 
 Form Factor 3.5" x 1/3H 
 Dimensions (WxDxH) 10.2 cm x 14.7 cm x 2.5 cm 

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful By C. Norris on 16 Nov 2009
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I purchased a WD Caviar 1Gb Black DP to replace two ageing IDE drives and it performed beautifully. However my 'system' drive, which was a older SATA1 model, failed a few weeks ago so I decided the only thing to replace it was another WD Caviar Black. This time I went for the 500Gb as it was cheap and I'm only going to put the OS on it plus my normal applications.
Although I'm not sure how the Dual Processor feature helps I do know that these are very quick HDDs. I run them in a high-spec system running Windows 7 64-bit and XP 64-bit and they perform flawlessly. I can stream MP3s, surf the net, run a VMWare appliance, and other I/O intensive tasks at the same time with ne'er a glitch or stutter.
They score 5.9 on the Windows 7 performance utility which I believe is the highest score for SATA II.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful By Kowalski on 5 Mar 2010
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So far very pleased. Although it does run slightly hotter than my older 500gb seagate, it is faster and fairly quiet. Seems to get noisey when running hot. Make sure you've got good cooling. Unsure of reliablilty as only had for a month now, but comparing to my seagate 500gb that suffered major errors after about 2 weeks, it was definatly worth the buy at this price !
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful By Mr. J. Wwalisch on 3 Jun 2009
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As ever excellent quality and easy to set up from Western Digital.Only a little bit on the noisy side.
Just the sending company got to be a little bit better in packing.The HDD was flying around inside the box,I was worried it was broken,but luckily it worked.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful By Kintel on 28 Feb 2010
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Had a lot of drives over the years and was going to save a little bit and get something a bit cheaper but very glad I didn't. This is a superb drive and I recommend it strongly.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful By T. Baczynski on 4 Dec 2009
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Great buy!
The drive arrived on 03-12-2009 with 01-11-2009 as the manufacturing date!
I installed new Windows 7 and works well.
No complains.
Very good packaging!!!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful By themachine2004 on 15 Feb 2011
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Before this I had a seagate 320GB hard drive and it wasn't multitasking very well... If I were to download a 700mb file I couldn't do much else as it slowed down the system. I have installed this over 4 weeks ago and it is quiet and have had no problems with multitasking now.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful By pc16 on 13 Feb 2011
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Have used Western digital Caviar hard drives for years, this drive now cames with 32mb cache and duel processors.
Intergrated into windows 7 with on problems, works very quick.
ideal for any upgrade to your system.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful By Mr. J. Crook on 29 Oct 2010
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I got this drive last year as my 120GB IDE drive was far too small for gaming not to mention slow.

Got this drive and never looked back.

Scores 5.7 for me on Windows 7. Quiet, robust and performs reasonably well. I say reasonably as there are now many drives that have a transfer rate of 600mbps and 64mb cache but you can pay almost double for them.

If you want performance and quality, this is a recommended drive and now i'm a "fanboy" of Western Digital hard drives(I used to like my Maxtor drives until I got this one)
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