- Interface:Serial ATA-600
- Device Type:Hard drive - internal
- Width:10.2 cm
- Height:2.5 cm
- Capacity:500 GB
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BrandWestern Digital
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14.7 centimetres
Item Width10.2 centimetres
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Hard Drive Size500 GB
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Western Digital Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB 35 Internal Hard drive SATA 6Gbs SATA 3 16MB Cache WD5000AAKX Components Internal Hard Drives
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26 of 29 people found the following review helpful
By Alec
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Had the drive working for One week now in a new build Computer. Performs well, Its Sata 3 so read and write times are good. Is faster than Sata 2 but not spectacularly faster In real world use I find, the data speed within the computer is also affected by what chipset you're motherboard has and what CPU you have.
The drive is quite compared to some I've had in the past. Has the jumpers on the back which are used for limiting the speed from 6Gbps to 3Gbps and/or using the PUIS (power up in standby) mode, handy if you have a large raid array to save on power depending on motherboard compatibility and raid type. So overall a good hard drive, quite and for what you get a good price, would buy again for any more new builds in the near future.
Any problems with the drive and I will update this review.
PS, Two good tips when handling hard drives, always wear a anti-static wrist band if you have one, and once you've taken the hard drive out of the anti-static bag, don't put it back on top of it. The bag is only anti-static on the inside, not the outside.
The drive is quite compared to some I've had in the past. Has the jumpers on the back which are used for limiting the speed from 6Gbps to 3Gbps and/or using the PUIS (power up in standby) mode, handy if you have a large raid array to save on power depending on motherboard compatibility and raid type. So overall a good hard drive, quite and for what you get a good price, would buy again for any more new builds in the near future.
Any problems with the drive and I will update this review.
PS, Two good tips when handling hard drives, always wear a anti-static wrist band if you have one, and once you've taken the hard drive out of the anti-static bag, don't put it back on top of it. The bag is only anti-static on the inside, not the outside.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Old drive on my desktop started clattering and occasionally saying unable to find boot drive. This hard drive was larger than the original but took the ghosted copy of the system and worked first time. Now giving silent and speedy service.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
This is the latest generation (SATAIII)of hard drive which runs 6gb/s.
Really very fast and Amazing thing is it is backward compatible
and works like SATAII as well.
I will replace this hard drive soon with my all office systems.
Just bear in mind you need sataIII support motherboard for maximum advantage.
Really very fast and Amazing thing is it is backward compatible
and works like SATAII as well.
I will replace this hard drive soon with my all office systems.
Just bear in mind you need sataIII support motherboard for maximum advantage.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
I like it... alot.
Great hard drive. It is SATA 3 and i am using it on my SATA 2 board with no problems. (Running at SATA 2 speed of course) I find this hard drive much quieter than my old one and... Read more
Published 8 days ago by Rockster
5.0 out of 5 stars
extremely silent and very good performance
I chose it to replace an aging disk of same size, it doesn't make a noise, and writes at over 30MB/s
Published 10 days ago by Lum
5.0 out of 5 stars
So far so good
Got this for my budget computer build. Not an amazingly high memory but good for the price. Had no issues so far. Didn't come with a SATA cable.
Published 10 days ago by Matthew Jones
1.0 out of 5 stars
fail
The Click of Death ... google it, I'm not going to bother explaining it ... however, my 'new' had drive has developed a 'clunk' in place of the click. Read more
Published 12 days ago by muckshifter
5.0 out of 5 stars
Quiet operation
I have always been impressed with Seagate Barracuda drives and still think they are best. However I have now purchased three of these Western Digital drives and running them in a... Read more
Published 17 days ago by Peter Williams
5.0 out of 5 stars
Reliable
I needed a new drive for my computer and Western Digital have a good reputation.They still have. The drive slotted in easily, the BIOS detected the new drive and re-installing... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Penfold
4.0 out of 5 stars
Purchased for clean Instal of Windows 7 64 bit
Early days regarding product performance.
However, I have a 5 year old dell build, running Vista Ulitmate 32 bit. Read more
However, I have a 5 year old dell build, running Vista Ulitmate 32 bit. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Denis
1.0 out of 5 stars
DOA 0 starts
The disk was dead on arrival. Plugged it in and it just made funny clicking noises. Messed arround for a while thinking this can't be right. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Peter
3.0 out of 5 stars
Vibrates when running
Have assembled a quiet pc using Cooler Master sound proofed case an expensive high efficiency power supply, an ASUS fanless graphics card and an OCZ SSD for the C drive. Read more
Published 1 month ago by S. Lee
5.0 out of 5 stars
Decent upgrade
I needed a new hardrive before upgrading to Windows 8 from xp,
Drive is far quicker than existing and loaded xp with all updates very quickly. Read more
Drive is far quicker than existing and loaded xp with all updates very quickly. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Dekhen
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