If you know anything about the problems Seagate had last year and have read about how well the WD Black's run. Then why are you even reading this! Until the come out with a new SATA technology the WD Black's will be the best you can get from a price point of view!
Туманник-1NFRO
31.12.2009
10/10
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I installed this (black) hard drive on a fast computer with an OEM copy of Win 7 (64 bit). It scored 5.9 on the Windows Experience Index. Amazon did a great job of packing it and, of course, it arrived a couple of days before the expected date.NOTE: This is an OEM hard drive and does not come with SATA cabels for either power or data, nor any screws to fasten it to the computer case.I hightly recommend it to anyone who doesn't need a hard drive that is larger in capacity.
Фотон-1FKNH
05.02.2009
10/10
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These drives have been tested to be the fastest 7200 RPM drives on the market. If you do a search, you'll find tests that compare the 640 black to the Raptor, and they are within 10% or less of the speed of the raptor, and on some tests, pretty much dead even.This review compares the Raptor 150 to the 640 Black, and it compares everything--write, read, transfer, sustained transfer, small file copy, large file, etc:[...]If you buy two of these drives and run them in RAID 0, you get smokin' faster transfer rates than a single Raptor.The upside is that this drive is 80 bucks compared to a raptor at 300. Also, the largest raptor is 300GB while this one is 640GBs. So you get 1.2TBs of space for 160.00 or about half of what a single raptor costs.Also, the Caviar Blacks are the same build quality as the Enterprise drives, so you get the 5 year warranty. The only difference in this drive and the Enterprise drives is that the latter are tuned for RAID, while the 640 is tuned for desktop use. The tuning for RAID lowers error recovery to 7 seconds, while the error recovery on the 640, like all desktop drives, is a much longer 30+ seconds.When using RAID, if your drive does happen to find a fault and try to recover it, after about 7 seconds the RAID controller will simply say, "Nope, bad sectors" mark the sectors bad and keep going. They are tuned this way to maximize performance on high volume servers where speed is more important than waiting for a non RAID drive to recover information. Other than that, there is virtually no speed difference between this drive and its Enterprise equivalent.
Странник-0HOJC
22.12.2009
8/10
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Хорошо
When I upgraded to Windows 7, I changed my computer's hard drive to this. It has performed well so far (2 months). My only concern is that while not too loud, I can hear when this drive is running. The old drive didn't make any sound. When I read reviews for this drive, many of them mentioned how quiet it was. I am not terribly concerned, because I do rigorous backups every 24 hours onto an external 1Tb hard drive (Hitachi). All in all, I think this will give satisfactory service.
НаноРейдер-4ZVHF
24.01.2010
10/10
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This was my first time building a computer, so I had to do a lot of searching for information as to what I was attempting to do. I went with the Western Digital 640 GB Caviar Black SATA 7200 RPM 32 MB, and I am extremely satisfied. The product arrived on time, installed easily, and has worked as expected after installation. I am extremely satisfied with my decision!
Астероид-5AYRE
09.11.2009
10/10
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I bought this drive to replace one that had failed in my desktop computer. It was easy to install and has performed perfectly so far. It is a "bare bones" drive and you get nothing but the drive - which is all I wanted or needed. It is hard to beat the price for a high performance drive with 1tb of capacity.The installation was simple if you have basic computer ability. I formatted and partioned it without any problems.Performance is very good. It is noticibally faster then the old drive I replaced.Shipping was prompt and the unit was well packed.I think anyone would be pleased with the "bang for the buck" this drive offers.
Супернова-2WTTJ
01.08.2009
2/10
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First is of all, the drive is a good drive, however I have 2 issues with Amazon/Western Digital:1. Amazon packaging of this drive is just terrible. When I received it, the drive was rattling in the box. That is unacceptable.2. Check the drive warranty online as soon as you take it out of the bag. Mine shows as:"No limited warranty - Product was originally sold to a system manufacturer. Please contact the system manufacturer or the place of purchase for warranty service. "This pretty much means that Western Digital considers this a drive that you receive in an OEM computer (say Dell) and that the computer vendor is responsible for warranty.Western Digital is known from screwing up the serial numbers occasionally.For all that will criticize this review because it should be about the "drive" performance not other things, cork it! This is about a drive I bought from this page. What I received was a banged drive with no warranty. I cannot give it more than 1 star...
Спектр-7HYFR
05.02.2010
10/10
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I purchased this drive to replace a one year old Hitachi that was clicking and groaning at me. Runs fairly cool in a not so ventilated case (about 42 C) and is very quiet. Don't let this lull you into thinking that these drives are infallible...buy 2 of these and use one for a backup. Amazon as always...you rock!
Кронос-9WHML
02.02.2010
10/10
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This hard drive is one of the fastest and most quite drives I have ever owned.The price was reasonable and Amazon sent it to me for free, can't beat thatfor a great deal. Buy it, you will like it, beleive me this was a very greatdeal for these days and times. You can't beat the five year warranty that comeswith it either.
Плазмонавт-0COKQ
09.12.2009
10/10
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In contrast to the sub-optimal packaging illustrated in the customer photos for this product family, my shipment was packaged using ethyfoam end-caps that left no play inside the cardboard shipping carton.And while this is the proper way to ship such a device and the manner illustrated photographically in the customer photos is a poor choice, these devices are a lot more robust when not operating than some appear to think. Western Digital lists the non-operating shock tolerance at "250 G, 2ms" (<[...]>).RRS
Гиперион-2NIPN
29.03.2010
10/10
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This is a great drive. I went from a 1TB Western Digital Green Drive to this one, and I was able to notice a performance boost.
Синтрон-6HFQO
08.02.2010
10/10
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Bought 2 of these to expand my internal workstation storage capacity. I couldn't be happier. They were a breeze to install, recognized immediately, and are really fast. Anyone who is considering another brand does not need to worry about the performance of these drives, they are the real deal.
Лунатик-7KRWK
20.11.2009
10/10
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Bought one and put it in a Rosewill external USB/FW800/eSATA case I got from Newegg. Quiet and super fast over Firewire 800 on a MacBook Pro. Generally faster than my other external Firewire 800 drive (WD 640GB Caviar Blue / AAKS)... I guess because this is higher density and a 'black' drive with more cache. Amazingly easy to setup on Mac OS X (plug in, follow prompts). No complaints.Also bought two of these for a Mac Pro tower. Installed easily in the drive sleds with no additional cables, and definitely faster using SATA than on the MBP using Firewire 800.
ТерраБот-5KHBU
23.10.2009
10/10
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Shipped fast.Installed painlessly.Formatted (relatively) quickly.Works flawlessly.What more could you want?Large storage capacity? Fast read/write? Low price? Done. Done. And done.Warranty? 5 years...the longest of any HDD.Windows sees it as 1000.2GiB.It's been working fine 30+ days now. I have no complaints.I hear some retailers ship their OEM HDDs with inadequate packing. When I opened my box it was wrapped in it's factory anti-static sealed bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, and cushioned between large plastic bubbles...long story short: It was incredibly well protected from the Neanderthals that seem to work at all the shipping companies these days.
Астрон-1HYKF
04.07.2009
10/10
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Just a great price for a humongous amount of storage. Bought two of them, now instead of wondering where I'm going to squeeze my files among multiple smaller hard disks, I'm wondering how I'm going to make use of all that extra space!Amazon must have smarted from those reviews about the lousy packaging: my two disks somewhat ridiculously came double-boxed inside a 19x13x7-inch box, with plenty of air cushions inside... a bit overkill. Shipped by FedEx to my home, a bit of a hassle as they tend to attempt signature-required delivery while I'm away at work.As noted, these are really barebones: disk & dessicant packet inside an anti-static bag are what you get inside the plain cardboard box; no instructions or cables or even box labeling.Also note unlike WD-boxed hard drives I've bought previously, these are not formatted: after making sure your BIOS recognizes the drive, you'll need to go into Windows Disk Management utility to find it and then format/assign a partition to it. Only then will it appear in Windows Explorer.
Пандорец-4SOLC
13.11.2009
10/10
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I ordered the product from Amazon.com on November 11th and it arrived at my house on November 13th.Pros:Best HD you can ever buy. Fast, reliable, and it makes you smile just by its smashing good looks.Cons:I am a bit concerned about how they shipped the HD. The product was safely packaged but, the HD is somewhat loose while in its box.***Other than that there is no reason not to buy this HD. Amazon is the best!!! They give the best price, and are always willing to help its customers instantly.***I have been with Amazon for a long time and have never had any problems.
Квантум-5EHGS
29.12.2009
2/10
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I bought one of these some time ago and after two months of light use it stop working. The First month it was ok. then it start to do some noise and slow a bit the transfer rate, some times it did work and sometimes did not. and two month later it stop working. I am very disappointed with WD, but some people says theirs has no problem, so i just had bad luck. Good Luck, i hope yours works fine.
КиберНаблюдатель-5HQQL
08.02.2010
10/10
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Performs great, isn't loud, isn't too hot. Simple as that. If you consider the caviar blue, just go black. It's not louder in my opinion and has better performance. I recommend against the green as they have a loud screech sound that I couldn't tolerate.
Эксопилот-1SJFC
14.09.2009
8/10
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Хорошо
In the current age of digital media a large hard drive is an absolute must. I've now replaced the hard drives in my current desktop computer 3 times and it hasn't been due to failed drives. This drive is 4x larger than the one it replaced and it clearly outperforms it on all levels. I was concerned with the overall speed of the drive due to it's size, however, I realize that I had nothing to worry about. The drive was easy to install and performs extremely well. The only issue I had was assoicated with Western Digital's unique connection cable. I wasn't sure if I needed the cable or not and ordered one anyway (turned out I didn't need it). This is a great drive at a reasonable price. I would highly recommend and I'm presonally debating purchasing a 2nd.
Астрономад-8TPOH
30.11.2009
8/10
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Хорошо
Very good affordable fast drive but Amazon should be ashamed of how they shipped it to me. It was just floating around a box with no protection and of course the monkeys as fedex delivered the box in almost crushed condition. No bubblewrap, no eggshells just a hard drive bangin around a big box that was treated as a volleyball by fedex. I really was expecting to have to ship it back thinking it must be broken, but its been a+ since installed. Very impressed with the speed of the drive.
Зета-Орион-6GVTS
25.02.2009
10/10
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The Caviar Black model of drives differ in three ways from Blue in three major ways:1) 32MB buffer vs 16MB. This means the drive is overall faster because it can store more data in memory local to the drive. So if you access the same data frequently there is little or no drive access to get at the data.2) Dual processors vs single. This will alleviate the load on your CPU as the drive itself has more processing power locally.3) Five year warranty vs three. Five years is a lifetime in hardware. Basically, you're covered for longer than you will most likely use the drive.The Caviar Black line comes in three four sizes; 1TB, 750GB, 640GB, and 500GB. The 1TB and 640GB are the fastest because they use a denser platter technology which allows the drive head to get at the data quicker. The 750GB and 500GB are no slouches though and the differences in speed will not be noticeable to most people under most real-world usage scenarios.Caviar Black drives are the fastest affordable consumer drives available today. If you want faster you have to look that the VelociRaptor 10000RPM line of drives but expect to pay a lot more for a lot less storage.I measured the speed of the 750GB model using the HD Tune utility and access time was a fast 12.5ms with less than 1% CPU usage on my 3.2Ghz Intel Quad Core setup. The drive runs cool at 32°C in my system and is quiet. Overall a great drive at a great price. You can't really go wrong.
НаноПилигрим-0VDRO
17.02.2010
10/10
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Very easy to integrate, I use a SATA/150 PCI card in an older Dell Dimension tower. After formatting the disk, it was ready for use. Very happy with this 1TB Hard Disk. It has an excellent record from users. - LF
Странник-3XSHN
18.02.2010
4/10
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The drive installed easily. Formatted easily. But it is much more noisey than my original Western Digital. All I could think of is the old SCSI drives. I don't know if it's defective. Would like to try another.
Астрон-2HWXT
21.10.2009
10/10
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This drive is fast and reliable(so far) quiet and runs cool. Not much else you can ask for from a hard drive. I find it interesting how much hard drive companies change, seagate used to be the best with western digital 2nd and maxtor a distance 3rd. Then samsung got into it and quickly rose toward the top while seagate got much less reliable. Right now though I think when you take into account everything, western digital is definitely the best. Especially these black drives, probably a little slower than the raptors but not that much and they don't cost that much more than the competitors it's a no-brainer.
Аэронавт-4HMAP
30.11.2009
10/10
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Bought this "black" series because it is a dual processor based higher end drive, It works as promised is fast 7200RPM and quiet and athough it is not the low power model it draws less than 10W according to specs so it should work with all systems. As a tech I lose a whole day rebuilding data and OS when a drive fails so the extra $10-$50 dollars spent on the black series is worth it to me. And you get a 5 year warranty (2 additional years for the extra money)
Лунатик-8FRUP
16.02.2010
6/10
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Плохо
First one arrived DOA, but Amazon sent me a replacement in just 2 business days. Put it into my computer and it worked just fine. Only gave it 3 stars because I had to send the first one back.
Астероид-6GVXT
25.01.2010
6/10
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Плохо
I've been using 2 of these drives for the past 2 months, I haven't had any problems but the drives are noisy like back in the old days. The 32 MB cache doesn't seem to be any better of a performer than a 16 MB cache, I was a little disappointed thus the missing stars.
Спектр-6DULA
30.11.2009
8/10
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Хорошо
I ordered 2 of these and they shipped from 2 different warehouses. I am happy to report both drives where packed very good in the boxes.I was a little aprehensive to order these from Amazon due to all the reports of bad packaging.I have to say the performance of these drives is not what I'd hoped for.The next HD I buy I will probably try another brand. In the windows 7 Performance rating I'm only getting a 5.9 which is the lowest score in my system
Плазмонавт-2QIPS
10.03.2010
10/10
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very good price for the storage amount, has not given me any problems at all. Was very easy to install.
Вектрон-3OGRC
26.02.2010
10/10
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Another great drive from WD. No problems yetHighly recommended to anyone looking for a top driveI can't complain! I'd definitely do it again ;)
Спектроник-2YUYK
05.02.2010
8/10
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Хорошо
I always considered Western Digital drives a dependable and affordable product. I used this purchase to more than double my backup storage for a very low price. It has only been a couple of months but no problems.
ХроноГость-8FPVZ
08.11.2009
10/10
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Великолепно
Installed in a Linux workstation. As with other HD manufacturers, WD uses metric units, meaning that the drive has an unformatted capacity of 1000GB. In my system, formatted capacity is 917 GiB (binary). The work I do is very read/write intensive, and the drives will often see almost continuous use for a week or more. No problems after a month: noise levels are well below the background of the (admittedly noisy) system; temperature seems acceptable. If you are using RAID you should buy the raid-edition drives
Альфа-Юнит-3GCKK
21.10.2009
10/10
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I've only had these WD's for a week and a half but they're working well in my 4-drive NAS system and pass full SMART tests every night. My main comment is that each came in satisfactory packaging, a specific cardboard box with two soft molded plastic end caps. Love Amazon & Prime.I originally purchased 4 Seagate 1.5 TB drives locally but returned them since the outer packaging part number was misleading and didn't match the drives inside, which have a notorious failure rate. They're the ones with the '341' in the part number.. avoid them, your data is too precious to risk.
КиберНаблюдатель-2JLGX
13.02.2010
10/10
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Великолепно
Used Acronis Ture Image and cloned Windows 7 Ultimate + data from a 1 TB to this monster drive. Flawless clone, drive is fast, well done WD! I see ordering 2 more in the near future.
Плазмоид-2ACOR
09.11.2009
8/10
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Хорошо
Got a great price for the performance and capacity of this drive from Amazon. Since the drive was an OEM version, it came with no software. Went to the Western Digital site and downloaded their special edition of Acronis True Image software to create a copy of my existing drive. I could not get this program to complete the copy on my system. WD support tried to help but I eventually went to a third party software to create my copy. The drive itself is fantastic, quick and quiet. Highly recommended.
Альфа-Юнит-6ELAH
08.02.2010
10/10
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change my previous 360GB model for Q1 this change is excellent and the price is very low.cambie mi modelo anterior de 360gb por este de 1T y el cambio es exelente el precio es muy bajo.
Астрономад-9EFZS
25.02.2009
10/10
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I have an application that needs very fast streaming reads, almost continually, over a multi-TB dataset. Write performance isn't that important, but straight-line speed and data integrity are. Oh, and it's cost-sensitive too. Good luck, right?I settled on a RAID 6 array of eight WD1001FALS disks connected to Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 controllers, housed in a RPC-4020 case. I plan to add another 2-4 disks in a month or two. Write performance isn't critical, so software RAID will do -- instead of spending a thousand bucks on a RAID controller, I'll buy some simple SATA controllers, an extra quad-core CPU, more RAM, and still have saved enough money to buy five more disks. At maximum write speeds, parity computation uses almost an entire processor core; of course, I have seven more. Turns out Core 2 chips are really good at parity computation, even RAID 6.Typical large file reads:3498999611 bytes (3.5 GB) copied, 6.04208 s, 579 MB/s3999941908 bytes (4.0 GB) copied, 6.56308 s, 609 MB/sDespite being software RAID over dumb SATA controllers, performance is excellent. (For comparison, Gigabit Ethernet has a theoretical maximum speed of 125 MB/s.) Throughput often reaches 100 MB/s per disk.Really, I'm not sure you can go wrong with these drives. They're reasonably quiet, very fast, and don't run any hotter than their competitors. Sounds like a winner to me.
Туманник-2IQPD
18.02.2010
2/10
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Ужасно
First HDD I got was dead on arrival. Here's hoping the next one Amazon ships works. Otherwise I'm going to buy it elsewhere.
Квазар-7WQCX
18.10.2009
10/10
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I bought this a month ago, the drive is almost silent, no high grinding noise, i registered it at western digital and got 5 years warranty. great value for the price.The only thing i didnt like is the way its packaged, however, the drive is rock solid, chkdisk submitted no errors so im kinda happy it didnt get damaged due to poor packaging.P.S: Make sure to format it FULL FORMAT not quick format, the difference is FULL FORMAT will perform "check disk" as well and report any errors found, if you get at least 1 bad sector, make sure to RMA it.
КиберНаблюдатель-9YFIZ
28.12.2009
10/10
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I bought this 640Gig Black Hard drive to speed up my loadtimes. I used it for my C: drive and noticed immediately how fast it loaded windows than my 250gig Sata drive. Also my games loaded about 30% faster now. So I think it was a very good investment over a Green or Blue version of this drive.
Кронос-2ZWMJ
05.12.2009
10/10
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Великолепно
A former Seagate customer, but I have heard of all the Seagate failures since they purchased Maxtor. I have had this drive for about 30 days and it has met my expectations. No issues and I would by another. For users where performance isn't quite as important, consider the Green drive by WD which dynamically adjusts the drives rpm to safe power and heat dissipation.
Лунатик-7VYXN
31.01.2010
10/10
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Великолепно
With a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate, this drive provides excellent performance and plenty of space. Highly recommended to anyone looking for a top shelf drive.
Кварковец-8TMXL
08.02.2010
10/10
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Великолепно
Outstanding hard drive. Get the Western Digital/Black for performance. Hard drive is very quiet, high end construction and performance.
Странник-7EBKM
29.08.2009
6/10
Оценка пользователя
Плохо
I ordered 4 WD 1TB Black Caviar drives for an internal RAID 0. These are great drives with great speed. Amazon packaging for shipment is approaching criminal negligence.Each drive, in it's sliver antistatic bag, is dropped into an individual cardboard box that is much too big to give any support or protection, with just a sheet of NOVUS Inflatable Plastic Packaging lying on top of the drive as protection from shock damage in transit. The drives are still free to slam around inside of the individual boxes.This is unacceptable packaging for hard drives. There have been several negatives reviews of this product because of Amazon's poor packaging. Does anyone at Amazon read these reviews?
Туманник-8SADN
10.01.2010
10/10
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Великолепно
I have read a couple of reviews that say this HD is loud, but it has been incredibly quiet for me. Doesn't get very hot either. This is the second WD drive I have bought, and the first black, I would buy one again in a heart beat.
Зета-Орион-3RCUI
21.10.2009
10/10
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Великолепно
My HDD arrived in a box, inside another box. Neither box was stuffed tightly with packaging material, but there seemed to be enough IMO. I'm sure the HDD would have sustained no damage if dropped from 5 feet packed the way it was. Maybe Amazon is listening!The unit is up and running without a fuss. It performs well also, with a burst speed of 233MB/sec and a sequential read speed peaking at 110MB/sec (measured with HD Tach). These numbers are identical to my 500 gig WD HDD, which is about a year old.
Интеллектор-0RDMB
30.12.2009
10/10
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Великолепно
Overall the drive is very good. connected and was recognized by the system in a flash...nothing but good news as per the drive but for the packaging.....another story althogher, it was beyond horrible. The item was loose in the box, no protection whatsoever!
Вояджер-5KTSG
28.12.2009
10/10
Оценка пользователя
Великолепно
I have been using this hard drive for about a month now and it's working just fine. It's much quieter and faster than my 500GB Western Digital Cavier Blue. Never had any problem with a Western Digital drive. Happy with this purchase from Amazon.com.
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