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Western Digital WD5000AAKS Caviar Blue Hard Drive - 500GB, 7200rpm, 16MB, SATA-300, OEM
Western Digital WD5000AAKS Caviar Blue Hard Drive
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Item Number: TSD-500AAKS
Model: WD5000AAKS
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Western Digital WD5000AAKS Caviar Blue Hard Drive
WD Caviar Blue 7200 RPM next-generation SATA hard drives feature up to 500 GB of storage and a 16 MB cache for lightning-fast performance. Yes, these reliable drives are fast, but they still deliver technologically advanced acoustics and cool operation. Designed for high-performance computers, multimedia and gaming systems.

16 MB Cache
Bigger cache means faster performance. A massive 16 MB cache combined with up to 300 MB/s transfer rate make these ultra-fast drives the perfect solution for the fully loaded PC with a fast processor.

Cool Operating Temperature
WD hard drives are designed to have the lowest power consumption of any high-capacity, desktop-class hard drive which lowers the operating temperature for enhanced drive reliability.

This Drive Holds
- 212 two-hour DVD-quality movies or
- 750 hours of VHS-quality video or
- 440 days of around-the-clock MP3 audio or
- 186,500 vivid digital photos or
- 1066 action-packed games!

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Specifications

  Drive Type:  Internal
  Capacity:  500GB
  Interface:  Serial ATA-300
  Interface Type:  SATA
  Spindle Speed (RPM):  7200
  Buffer Memory:  16MB
  Average Seek (msec):  8.9
  Average Latency (msec):  4.2
  Data Transfer Rate on Serial ATA:  Up to 3000 Mb/sec
  Form Factor:  3.5"
  Temperature, Operating (°C):  5 to 55
  Temperature, Nonoperating (°C):  -40 to 65
  Type:  OEM
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Customer Rating:   4.2
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Value 4.4
Features 4.2
Quality 4.0
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Dead after 31 Days
Reviewer:  Drew on  Jan 27, 2010
Customer Rating:    1.0
Value 1.0
Features 1.0
Quality 1.0
Performance 1.0

Bought it on Dec 26 and it failed on Jan 26


this product is not good
Reviewer:  BLUE on  Jan 25, 2010
Customer Rating:    1.0
Value 1.0
Features 1.0
Quality 1.0
Performance 1.0

dont pick this one it is very bad i dont recomand


worst product ever
Reviewer:  TABSRUSH on  Jan 21, 2010
Customer Rating:    1.0
Value 1.0
Features 1.0
Quality 1.0
Performance 1.0

i have recently bought a new gateway and paid almost a m dollars, from the beginning we had trouble with pausing, stopping and over all poor performance, never thought it would be the hard drive and after several repairs and blogs noiw i know what the problem was,,, dont buy it


2 drives both died within a month after use
Reviewer:  Vewdew of wow on  Jan 16, 2010
Customer Rating:    1.0
Value 1.0
Features 1.0
Quality 1.0
Performance 1.0

I bought the first drive to replace my old 80gb hdd. After 3 weeks it stopped working after I ran the WD Lifeguard thing and saw it had bad sectors. So I bought another one dec. 12th. Sure enough exactly Jan 12th it froze and started to act up so I ran the Lifeguard tool again and poof what do ya know, more bad sectors. Dont buy this drive! Good thing is I have 2 cool looking paper weights.


Disappointed in WD
Reviewer:  Mitch on  Jan 03, 2010
Customer Rating:    2.0
Value 2.0
Features 2.0
Quality 1.0
Performance 3.0

Bought this drive about 10 months ago. Liked the price but its a bitter taste now that its completely useless. Windows started getting slow and kept pausing. Surface scan revealed unrecoverable sectors, the surface scan took 9 hours to run and only got 15% of the way through. Stopped it, pulled the drive out and did what I should of done... bought a quality name brand, not this cheap low end garbage that WD is pushing as good product. ALl my other drives have been running for years and I wont mention who they are from. Goodbye WD, luckily I was able to get my lightroom catalogs off this drive before I DOD'd it and smacked it with a hammer for the trash bin.


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Western Digital WD5000AAKS Caviar Blue Hard Drive - 500GB, 7200rpm, 16MB, SATA-300, OEM
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Manufactured by: Western Digital
Mfg Part No: WD5000AAKS
UPC No: 718037720302
Box Size: ( Length: 8, Width: 2, Depth: 7 )
Shipping Weight: 1.5500 pound(s)
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