WD Caviar Blue WD5000AAKS Hard Drive

Good buy

Strengths: Reliable, quiet, fast cache

Weakness: None

This is my second WD 500G drive. I added a second drive for media storage. The access time is fast. The drive is quiet. I've been using these drives for about 6 months and so far no problem found. Never got any error on routine drive scan. Sata set up is easy and windows XP recognizes the drive right away.

very fast and easy

Strengths: 500 Gb, price, speed... and on and on

Weakness: this is the "bare drive" version, and it is just that. don't expect more that just the drive!

This drive arrived in a mf sealed plastic envelope, wrapped in bubble wrap, nested in a big box of peanuts. (excellent packaging!) The "bare drive" version is just exactly that. There were no screws, no documentation, not even an invoice in the box. (I didn't need those things, so it was no big deal.) I installed this drive in about 3 minutes. It appears to be perfect. I am upgrading from an 80...

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Western Digital 500GB HDD great for everything

Strengths: 3 platter design Fast seek, read, and write times. It's S-ATA-300. Western Digital offers RMAs from most of the sellers on PriceGrabber free of cost

Weakness: Not optimized for RAID (simply put, more than 1 hard drive acting as a single drive)

This is a Western Digital hard drive. I've had other brands, and WD is one of the few brands that seem to survive the test of time. The write time for this model is 2 ms slower than the 5000ABYS model. However, the ABYS model is made for RAID. All in all, an excellent hard drive, and should go well with my other two.

Great hard drive

Strengths: Fast, whisper-quiet, reasonably low power usage, 3 year warranty on OEM drives.

Weakness: Still has moving parts, like every other drive.

Western Digital drives have become the de-facto standard for quiet computing, with both low power usage (hence low heat dissipation) and excellent acoustics. The WD5000AAKS is a 3x166GB platter-design, which should improve on the already-excellent performance of the 4-platter WD5000KS. Western Digital's second generation SATA drives are fast and competitive in both price and features. Further,...

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Great Hard Drive

Strengths: This drive is worth the money. I've always used WD and I am always happy with my purchase.

Weakness: Can't find a single one. It's a hard drive, what else do you want.

I recommend ordering from a retailer you trust and has a good warranty and return policy. And for those who are saying that they are losing HD space, try turning off system restore for that drive . But only if it is a secondary drive. Although I recommend leaving it on because you may need it one day.

n Caviar SE16 500GB Hard Drive (Serial ATA-300,...

Strengths: 160GB platters makes for higher density and therefore less noise, vibration, and heat.

Weakness: Retail version only has 1-year warranty

Save for the warranty (OEM version has 3 years) and excellent drive that's quiet, fast, and cool. This and Samsung HD501LJ are probably the class of the 500GB field right now. WD also offers advanced replacement warranty service.

Western Digital HHD are the best!

Strengths: 500GB, SATA2, PRICE, SPEED, WD NAME, OEM w/ 3 Yrs Warranty (Retail = 1yr)

Weakness: Some say it gets a little hot

I love Western Digital Hard Drives. I would never buy any other brand. I have never had a WD hard drive fail on me. I currently own a 36GB Raptor, this 500GB (replacing a 120GB WD drive), and an external 250GB. If you want smooth, reliable and fast drives go with WD!

It does its job

Strengths: Lots of space, nice price.

Weakness: Only 465 GB useable. That's 35 off. A lot of missing space if you ask me.

So far so good. A nice addition to my 200 GB (80+60+80 external) It's my first time ordering a Western Digital drive and I have no complaints. Would definitely buy again if possible.

Quiet, Fast, Affordable. Great buy!

Strengths: SATAII speed. Performance benchmarks are great too. Quiet too!

Weakness: Ughh... none that i can think of.

This harddrive is a great buy. The performance is fast! This thing was qualified to earn a 5.9 (highest score) on Vista's index meter. I use XP so I have no tried to verify this yet but that was one of the selling points. Another selling point is that it is quiet. Highly recommended since this only cost a few bucks more compared to other louder harddrives like my Seagate Barracuda 7200.10.

eXcellent drive

Strengths: quite and Phast! and it wurkz in my Mac Pro... easy install and quick...

Weakness: none

Thank you MWave, the price keeps moving in the right direction... i did a lot of research and found this drive to be the best value and easy install/expansion for my Mac Pro... i do a lot of video wurk and this was a very good investment for my system... i should be getting two more as soon as i finnish my current project... if you are reading this, just buy it so you can get it installed sooner...

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