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Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATAII 16MB Cache 3.5 inch Internal Hard Drive OEM


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  • Solid performance
  • Ultra cool and quiet
  • Capacities up to 1 TB
  • Ships in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging
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Technical Details
BrandWestern Digital
Item Weight581 g
Product Dimensions19.4 x 17 x 7.6 cm
Item model numberWD5000AAKS
Hard Drive Size500 GB
  
Additional Information
ASINB003SLE8J2
Best Sellers Rank 63,585 in Computers & Accessories (See top 100)
Shipping Weight581 g
Date First Available17 Jun 2010
  
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Manufacturer's Description

WD Caviar® Blue™ hard drives are available with either SATA or PATA interface in a variety of cache sizes with a multitude of available features to deliver rock solid performance and ultra-cool and quiet operation. Pick the drive that suits your needs with the confidence in knowing that all WD Caviar Blue drives are built to the highest standards of quality and reliability. With capacities ranging from 80 GB to 1 TB, these drives are the perfect solution for family and business computing.

Box Contains

  • SATA hard drive with IntelliPower
  • Mounting screws and a jumper shunt

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    1 of 1 people found the following review helpful By Keith Marston on 22 Feb 2011
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    Not a lot to say really.
    Bought this to replace my wife's ailing 160gb drive. Quick delivery and well packed item.
    Bios/Windows recognised the drive straight away and from unpacking to O/S working was less than an hour. It has been installed for about a month and a half now. It is a lot quieter than the previous drive and a lot more responsive.
    All in all a good purchase.
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    By Rondo on 26 Nov 2012
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    Excellent brand excellent quality excellent build purchased to replace a Western Digital Hard drive that Microsoft XP indicated was failing after seven years of use.Still working fine so haven;t used the replacement yet
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    By mjk on 27 Oct 2012
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    With limited use this drive failed and I was unable to recover data. On powering up the drive gave out a series of beeps (five, if I recall correctly) - or more like buzzes. Probably used the drive less than 10 times with no extreme transfers. Left me with an uneasy feeling about WD products.
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    By Jules TOP 500 REVIEWER on 10 Aug 2011
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    Nothing fancy with this HDD it simply does the job if your looking for a good reliable budget HDD. It has a good capacity of 500GB & runs at a fast 7200rpm. It doesnt matter that it is SATA 2 and there is SATA 3 available on m-boards, becasue these mechanical HDD's cannot run that fast to make use of it, unlike Solid state drives. Extremely easy to install with SATA, none of that IDE nonsense with long wide ribbons. The only downside i'd probabley say, would be the delivery/packaging, it wasnt amazingly secure, the drive comes in its own anti static bag, wrapped tightly in bubblewrap, then placed in the bottom of a cardboard box with some of that rough brown paper. When i opened it, it was actually sitting under the brown paper, not in it, so was touching the bottom of the box, thankfully it didnt seem to have taken any sharp blows in that area, otherwise it would had been nasty. Anyway, once hooked up it worked right out the box & installed Windows quickly, so no quibbles there. Reccomended budget HDD.
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    By Mr. G. Warner on 5 Mar 2011
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    Thanks Amazon great product arrived in good time packaging great, this is a good product which as enabled a once defunct PC back to life
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    By K. C. Tong on 13 Feb 2011
    This is my auxiliary drive for HD video rendering. Had it for a couple of months and works fine and transparently - did noticed it's there except I've got more spare capacity to hand.
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