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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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Can not be beat
Reviewer:
darow1 on
Nov 05, 2009
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Bought 2 of these 3 years ago they have been running in a raid 1 first on my media machine now on my desktop never a problem. I only regret having 4 seagates that now have compatability issues with si3132 chip set. In future I probably will go with the blacks to get a larger cach and warranty. |
In RAID 0 everything is fast!
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mg524 on
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I have two of these in a RAID 0 config. The read write speeds of 187MB read, 184MB write is only slightly slower, 204MB read, on my RAID 0 32GB SSD.
I am going to add two more drives to the array and get more speed and one TB of storage for the same price as the 32GB SSD. RAID 0 is a much simpler addon to speed and you don't have the performance degradation that you have with old SSDs. I am on my third SSD in 18 months. |
Convienient but failure-prone
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Tsu on
Oct 02, 2009
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I have two of these, and up until 2 days ago I was fairly satisfied. However, I just lost 420 GB of data on one due to corrupt firmware, which is apparently a common problem (among others) with this model. Data recovery would cost roughly $600...which is outside my budget.
To keep things short, if you buy this drive, BE CAREFUL! Make regular backups of your data so that you won't lose it like I did. |
Not sure if it is a good deal or not
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DAN on
Sep 18, 2009
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I'm not sure if this is a good deal or not. I did not know when I bought this that it had to be formatted. I built a new computer. I loaded my Windows XP and it tells me my drive is corrupt. Every thing is new on this sytem so it must be this drive. |
Intialization Problems in Windows Vista
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Bill on
Sep 05, 2009
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I have one of these drives and they are shipped not initialized and before you can format the drive you must perform the initialization. Windows Vista has a difficult time doing this and I used a computer running Windows XP. After initialization and formatting the drive worked as intended in either XP or Vista. |
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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)
Limited Warranty:
36 months parts;
36 months labor
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TSD-500AAKS
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