If you don't know what OEM is, it stands for Original Equipment Manufacturer. In laymen's terms it means that you are buying something that is designed to just be installed in a computer, likely as a replacement for failed hardware. That also means you won't get ANY accessories with this; no cables, no screws, nothing. If you understand that then this is a good deal. HOWEVER...be careful buying OEMs from Amazon. As a side note, I bought this to offload significant amounts of data from my primary drive, for archival purposes. I can live without the bulk of it, but a lot of it is irreplaceable and I would really rather not lose it.Most big name stores do not sell OEM parts. Places like Fry's do because they're effectively giant warehouses full of overstock. Amazon will sell you OEM, but their packaging leaves a LOT to be desired. In the case of a hard drive, they are considered fragile as evident by all labeling on the drive itself; Amazon will not mark it as fragile on the box. That means UPS or FedEx or whoever is going to toss that box around like it's nothing. Normally this wouldn't be an issue for a properly packaged item...popcorn or bubble wrap or inflated pillows, but Amazon just had this sandwiched, in its electrostatic bag, between two plastic holders and directly placed into the box. No type of cushioning whatsoever, and it was not marked fragile. That was my first concern.When I got it home I proceeded to run Disk Management from Windows 7 to set up the volume and do a full format. It took two hours to fail at 8% and defaulted back to RAW; from that point I could no longer access it from Disk Management or CHKDSK. Bad sign - usually means there's something wrong with a sector or even a platter. I had to download a program, Partition Wizard, which after some plugging and unplugging was able to find the drive, format it and set it up. Partition Wizard did the full format in a matter of 1 minute. I ran a surface test to make sure there were no additional errors and didn't find any. Instead of fully moving the data, I copied what was there over to the drive and then I've been moving some additional stuff that was never properly archived. Reads work fine, and writes are fast over USB/eSATA bridge, but I still worry about what might have gotten messed up over the shipment. I'm going to just use it for a few months repeatedly, accessing the data and see if there are any issues, if not then I'll call it safe.Just be forewarned about Amazon's shipping methods with an OEM device like a hard drive that is sensitive to sudden shock and motion. The drive itself is solid, but Amazon doesn't seem to care about shipping it properly.
Лунатик-8HFKH
04.05.2011
2/10
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May 4, 2011==============Well, I had a warranty replaced WD drive, and this is what they sent me. On the drive cover states, "Product of Thailand".The Date code on it was: 12 OCT 2010. So I go to start using this guy with my Acronis clone software and I get about 60% of my clone finished andI start getting disk write errors. Well, I jump through the hoops and run WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for Windows. That wouldn't even read the poor thing.So, I reformat the brand new thing, and just to test, I try to copy a folder to it. The frequent noise that I used to hear in the 90s when a hard drive goes bad rushed back from my memories when I hear this thing do it. So I go on WD warranty site, put in the serial# and the warranty on this poor bastard was 5 months.I get out a magnifying glass and look all over the sticker on the drive and find the smallest words on Superman could read: recertifiedAll I can say is, "WD, you are cheap and deceitful".
Кронос-3SWKT
28.03.2011
2/10
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I purchased a Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB internal hard drive from the Amazon.com website. The product arrived at the time Amazon said it would, but when I opened the box it came in there was the hard drive but nothing else. No installation CD. . . .No information on the product. . . .No product registration form. . . .No pride or care on Western Digital's part whether the person who purchases their products is satisfied and that their product does what they claim it does. Since I cannot install this product, I put it to good use as a DOOR STOP! ! ! ! I WILL NEVER, NEVER, EVER BUY ANYTHING from Western Digital EVER AGAIN! ! ! ! This is the sixth hard drive I've purchased in the last eight years, all MAXTOR, and never had a problem until now. DON'T BUY ANYTHING FROM WESTERN DIGITAL - - - THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT THEIR CUSTOMERS!!!!!!!!
НаноРейдер-3UFEU
30.04.2011
10/10
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As I'm sure you guessed by the title, I've been running this drive since August '09. I bought it from Amazon and installed it as a secondary drive. It's the newer of my 2 drives, so it gets extreme daily use in a hot environment. Although I have a half dozen fans inside my PC, I live in a hot climate. When summer comes, even the AC can't keep it as cool as the computer (or myself for that matter) would like. I store, run programs and games from this hard drive and shut it down at night (again, because of heat.)I had no trouble installing it and it's been serving me well enough that now that my main / older drive is making noise I plan on purchasing another to run Windows and handle the basic use my main drives gets.
Спектр-0DCZW
07.04.2011
2/10
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I bought this one in 2008. In less of two years it stopped! At first everything was OK, but before a year of use, my computer said "the disk is very damaged and recommended change it", in that times, bug reports indicated that in Palimpset (disk tool of Ubuntu 9.10) had a bug reading S.M.A.R.T. showing warning messages by mistake and Windows disk tool didn't detect anything wrong, then ignoring the Ubuntu warnings, I kept using it. Last year I had to buy a new hard drive because my Western Digital was damaged and took half of my data without backup. I have a couple of excellent WD disks in the same computer, one of 80 GB (2004) and another of 160 GB (2008), I don't know what happend with this model...
НеоВояжер-2MSJH
28.06.2009
10/10
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I originally bought this HD to serve as a second hard drive in my system, the first being a Western Digital 80GB with 2MB cache. First of all, you should know that because it's listed as "OEM," you're just getting the drive and nothing else. You'll need to buy a SATA data cable (if you don't have one) and have an extra SATA power connection from your power supply unit (PSU). It's not the white plug with the round holes, it's a thin black plug that looks like a larger version of the data cable. I'm not sure how people set up the partitions without a boot disc, but luckily I still had the WD Hard Drive Tools CD that came with the older drive, so I set my motherboard BIOS to have the PC boot from the DVD drive and created one 50GB partition without too much trouble. I decided to transfer my files to the new HD and use the old one for extra space, and do a clean install of Windows XP on the new drive. XP doesn't recognize partitions above 130GB (until you upgrade the Service Packs), which is why I only had the one 50GB partition to start off with (see below).The Windows install went smoothly, and I used a thumb drive to install SP1 followed by SP3 (you need 1 installed before you can install 3). I also re-installed the motherboard drivers (from the WD CD). Then I used the built-in partition manager (right-click My Computer, click Manage, click Disk Management and right-click on the unused space on the hard drive to create new partitions). I had the 50GB partition for Windows and programs, and created an 80GB partition for my pictures/docs/videos, a 100GB partition for my mp3s, and the rest was partitioned for copied DVDs. For some reason, XP only recognizes it as a 465GB hard drive, but it's not a big deal, as it's still more space than I'll need.I re-downloaded a lot of the programs that were on my old HD, and otherwise copied most of the files over without too much trouble. If you have enough space on your HD, you should keep the original installation files instead of deleting them (the install package for my Zune, for instance, is 131MB, and too an hour to download again. I reformatted the Zune to start fresh with my updated and reorganized collection). After making sure everything was copied, I cleared some of the partitions on the old HD and used that space to make one big partition. I re-copied a few important files back to the old HD, just in case the new drive ever fails (unlikely).The HD performs really well. It's nearly silent, and loads everything much faster than the old HD (I'm now able to start XP and immediately access my drives and programs, where before the desktop would show but nothing would respond for a few minutes). Going from 2MB to 16MB cache makes a huge difference. All in all, this hard drive is a great buy (I remember buying the 80gb for $60 just 3 years ago! How technology changes...).
Интеллектор-4DYBH
22.01.2011
10/10
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I've had my eye on this drive for almost a year, based the great reviews for speed and reliability it receives on several web sites. My 250GB stock drive was finally full of movies and music, so I decided to take the plunge and purchase this drive. Had the old drive out and new one in my 24" white iMac in about 20 minutes, and after a reinstall of OS X, and full restore from my Time Machine backup drive, I was back in action. The first thing I noticed was the quicker install time for the OS (about 20 min vs. 30 for my old drive). Once I was up and running, my machine is much more peppy starting up (about a 30~40% increase in time to desktop from power on) and apps start up equally as quickly. I'm really surprised the difference in performance from the OEM 250GB WD SE Caviar that came installed stock. I would highly recommend this drive to anyone.
Гравитон-2KFKK
17.03.2011
2/10
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Had this HD for about a month now and then it started making some clicking noises and my computer locked up. Tried to reboot system and some files needed for windows to start were not found. Turned it off for a couple of days while I did some research and then tried starting it up.. It came up, so I ran ScanDisk and there were tons of errors. Drive continues to make weird clicking noises. I was able to copy my important data off of it. Will return it for another. I have had HUGE success with Western Digital in the past, so this will not make me switch to another brand, but I will not get this model again.
Квазар-0RKMG
08.01.2011
4/10
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I have spent LOTS of cash on hard drives and i happen to work in a huge electronics store. They got computers, mobile phones, gadgets, hard drives and sometimes things break down. We got western digital drives as well and i noticed that 4 out of 20 are returned from customers because they crush!!! Samsung hard drives never come back after they get sold. Thats what i noticed at my work and before i posted this i got also the technicals support guys opinion and also now my personal expirience. I have a samsung hard drive for 4 years and i started to get worried in case it crushes down and i loose all my data. So i went and got a western digital. I had it three months and it worked slow and after crushed. I threw him out of my window. My samsung still running. Overall? This hard drives are a waist of money. Thanks
Странник-7OLPY
03.02.2010
10/10
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This is an OEM drive so expect that it does not come with a data cable, power cable or screws. Most of these items usually come with other parts anyway, like data cables with a motherboard, power cables as part of a power supply and screws as part of a computer case. If not, they are very cheap to purchase. Software isn't necessary because all the necessary drivers came with the motherboard for the onboard SATA chipset or with the controller card. This is truly plug and play. Plug in the cables, screw the drive into the case, boot up your OS and configure/format the drive. You also don't need a cardboard box.Right now 320GB really the best value for the smaller size drives you can buy. It really doesn't make sense to spend a few dollars less and get half the space. This drive and it's brother the WD3200AAJS are nearly identical the only difference being in the size of the cache (8MB for AAJS vs 16MB for AAKS). Whichever one is on sale is the one to get. I found a sale and got it cheaper than the version with the smaller cache so that is the one I chose. Before that I chose the WD32000AAJS. I notice no difference in peformance despite the different cache sizes. They are both very fast.The drive runs cool and quiet. It's nearly impossible to hear when mounted correctly in a quality PC case. I am using this drive in a new home theater PC that I built so quiet is very important. It's nothing like the drive that sits in my Comcast DVR that rattles away 24/7. This drive has plenty of room for Windows 7 and whatever applications I'll install now and in the future. I keep all my media on a separate server so there's no worries about running out of space. It also runs very cool according to the temperature sensor in the BIOS. That's also very important in the confined space of a home theater PC installed in a media cabinet.I've found WD drives to be very reliable and I hope this drive is no exception. So far, so good.
Квантум-9PIMY
17.10.2010
10/10
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For those of you looking for a inexpensive hard drive, this is a great drive to use in my opinion! I bought this as a second hard drive in my computer since the original one is only 80 GB and so far in the six months I have been using it, not one problem. I am a mid level computer user in my opinion, so when I read that this was a "Bulk" hard drive, I knew that I would need to buy the cables seperate, not a problem for me at all, but some people will over look this. I started using it with Windows XP, not one problem at all, for about two months I have been using it with Windows 7 and not a problem at all there either. I have a dual boot system and this drive is the drive that now has Windows 7 on it. I bet it took about 10 minutes to install, but the formatting took about 30 minutes due to the size. Long story short, I have way more room now and I have not had one problem yet. I would recommend this drive to anyone, but for those of you out there who are not familiar with "Bulk" items, you will want to make sure that you buy the cables needed too.
Вектрон-0QOEP
26.04.2011
10/10
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I purchased this hdd to add OSX to my current build which was only running windows 7. I have always had WD hard drives and I have yet to have a problem with any OEM models i have purchased. This drive is no exception. I have been using this drive for a couple months now and i am able to switch back and forth between this drive and my other WD drive with no issues.
Гравитон-3TAPB
13.03.2011
8/10
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Just got this drive, you will have to format it before use, but I experienced no issues at all. No bad sectors, no trouble.This thing is fast and quiet. Very happy with it so far...I've taken the time to really get a good healthy install on it and it has paid off. I'll follow up if anything changes, but as of right now I am 100% happy with this purchase!Also, received this in a little under 2 days! Great shipping, packaging was professional - shock mounted drive, original WD box inside of a larger box.
Сириус-1MIDV
19.04.2011
10/10
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I bought this hard drive to replace one that died in an 8 year old computer. Following the easy installation, I performed a recovery, formatted and partitioned the drive and the computer is back to complete functioning. Runs like when new with additional storage. It was everything I expected from WD. More quiet than the original Seagate. I will be buying an additional one soon.
Вояджер-5VEVV
31.03.2011
10/10
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I already had the 320GB version of this drive in my computer. When I wanted to add another drive, selecting this drive from Amazon was a serious no-brainer. This drive has great specs., (except for the needs of the geekiest geeks that live in mama's basement and just play video games all day) and a price that cannot be beat. Add the manufacturer's 3-year warranty and you certainly have a winner!
Дроид-5CSBM
16.03.2011
10/10
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I've bought several of these recently, and many Western Digital drives over the years. I have yet to have a WD drive die on me.This one is fast, quiet and cool. A perfect upgrade for my Parents' PC. I also like how Western Digital plainly prints the capacity and other important info on the label in bigger font then other brands.Mine came well packed in a nice frustration free box in a box. air bags took up the empty space.
ОмниКод-3FZWG
25.03.2011
10/10
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Great hard drive--500GB for $40 is great, being that many stores/retailers sell 160GB or 250GB (if you're lucky) at this price.Ran HDDTunePro and there's 0 bad sectors. Only bad thing is that the black "paint" gouges easily from screwing into the drive bay.This will be my first WD hard drive (that I have used in a build), I usually use Seagate drives.
Вектрон-4AGHU
30.05.2011
2/10
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It is not often that I am robbed without a weapon pressed against me, but this was one of the occasions.
ТерраБот-5RMUG
03.05.2011
8/10
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This hard drive will do just fine. Get it! Much better than caviar greens and they are good drives that never failed me. I doubt this caviar blue will do any worse. It does what its supposed to do.
ХроноГость-9BKBB
15.02.2011
10/10
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I bought this drive to upgrade a desktop computer and install W7 on it. Drive arrived in simple packaging and it was not formatted. Installation was a matter of 5 minutes in my desktop and the system (5 year old Dell) immediately recognized it.Everything went well the very first time; only comment is that drive is so silent I thought it was not working on the first booth after OS installation.Highly recommended.
Гелиос-5BIYU
13.03.2011
10/10
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I build desktop computers for my friends. This is the 4th WD hard drive that I bought. I have not any problems with WD. I am using this 500g as a primary drive and it is working properly. Placed it inside the case, loaded it with Windows 7 and my desktop started up without a hitch. A bonus, it is very quiet.
Альфа-Юнит-8FXZC
31.03.2011
10/10
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No problems so far. It appears to be a good product.Select your shipping according to your needs, free shipping usually takes longer than expected.Overall it was a good purchase, a good product and a good vendor.
Супернова-8JPYD
03.03.2011
10/10
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I bought this drive to use for my Windows 7 backups. It arrived in good shape and formatted easily using Windows 7 disk manager. I connected it with a SATA/USB drive adapter from Cables to Go. Works great, drive is quiet and cool, and I can store it in a fireproof location so my backups are safe.
Вектрон-3WCHY
02.04.2011
8/10
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For the price, this HDD is an excellent value. I replaced an old 250GB HDD with this 500GB unit for a very reasonable price. It is quiet and fast and was a breeze to setup and use.
Квантум-8UFHN
31.01.2011
10/10
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I purchased this hard drive as a replacement for the one that Dell installed in my XPS CPU years ago. As with most computer components this unit did not have any interfacing problems into the rack. There was no problems with installing Windows 7 and data processing and retrieval seem to work great. I've been running the hard drive for about three week now and I'm happy with it.
НеоВояжер-6LTWS
25.03.2011
10/10
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As usual, WD makes the best harddrive out there. The only thing that is ever in question is the price. Not this time.Good price great product. I expect it to last for 10 years or more if needed.
НоваГость-3SHOD
11.02.2011
8/10
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Well i used the jumpers and added windows xp......took several attempts but its working, only thing is its only regognising 25% of total capacity, idk wht i did wrong? when XP was setting up it only offered me 125gb of drive to work with...so idk.but the drive is fast and VERY quiet. wish i had the full 500gb tho.
Странник-6KANO
25.12.2010
10/10
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Nothing really cosmic about this drive. Pretty much plug and play. No jumpers needed. Plugged it in to my new build, threw windows 7 on it and I was up and running with no issues. I suppose a raptor an ssd would give you better performance, but I honestly don't think I'd really see much of a difference for the price:performance ratio.The only thing I can say negative about it is this HDD is the only thing keeping my windows index score under a 7 with a super high score of 5.4
Небулоид-7XFYS
08.01.2011
10/10
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I bought this as a exact replacement for a failed drive in a relative's desktop. The original drive had failed because the desktop had been knocked over on it's side. The installation was very easy and the reload of Windows 7 went well. Prior to reloading Windows, I ran the CD-ROM based hard drive diagnostic that had shown multiple block errors on the original drive and this new drive ran error free.
ИнфраГость-9PXVQ
30.03.2011
10/10
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Great drive. Nice Space. Quiet. Snappy. I ordered two. Both work great , and I have had no problems so far.
Астероид-2VARN
08.02.2011
10/10
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I bought this drive based on multiple reviews. It lives up to them, in all respects. I bought it to replace an older, 320 gb drive that came with my Mac Pro that was acting a bit hinky, so I cloned to this new drive. All "hinkiness" is gone and it works well.
Фотон-4XBTI
19.12.2010
4/10
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I bought this item for my Pentium 4 computer. When I partitioned to 80 GB and installed Windows XP, the system went extremely slow. Computer could start up but hung after 3-4 hour usage. I suspect the Hard disk is faulty or may be my PC is too old to handle a 640GB H/D. Later I bought a 320 GB from a retail shop and it worked perfectly.I returned this item but Amazon.com, handled the return professionally. I appreciate their service.
ТехноНаблюдатель-3FJKO
28.02.2011
10/10
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Great Drives, I Bought 2 To Put In A Macally Gigabyte NAS Enclosure. Install Was Simple, & Set Up As A Mirrored Raid, All My Windows Machines & All My Macs, Can See & Use The NAS Drives.
Плазмоид-9WKEW
05.03.2011
10/10
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I've always liked Western Digital hard drives and this one has worked flawlessly. Would recommend to anyone who wants a large hard drive and not much out of pocket.
Странник-4CXZE
26.02.2011
10/10
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This hard drive installed easily and quickly into my spare computer. I had absolutely no problems getting it up and running, formatting it and installing Windows XP. Highly recommended!
Аэронавт-2CFGU
22.12.2010
10/10
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Purchased this in Nov 2010 as a replacement drive for my iMac G5 Intel. No issues during the install, formatting, reloading of all my software & documents, and performance. Not being a computer guy it was a difficult decision on which drive to purchase with so many options available. Stuck with Western Digital Caviar as the original drive was of the same brand, so far it has performed well and is faster.
Вояджер-8LIVK
23.02.2011
8/10
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Amazon should clarify the information in this article because the WD5000AAKS model corresponds to a SATA hard disk and not a SATA II.I am sure that Amazon will review this publication.
Сириус-5NALT
05.01.2011
8/10
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I needed a hard drive fairly quickly to replace a damaged one in a friend's computer, so I ordered it via Amazon Prime, and got it two days after ordering.It's given my friend no problems so far, and is zippier than the "Green Drive" she had in there as a C: drive, which would "save energy" by slowing to a crawl when she was working....
Астрон-0KOOU
26.09.2010
10/10
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It's kind of weird how Amazon lumps everything the way it is, but this review is for the Western Digital Caviar Blue WD6400AAKS. These are great hard drives, they've been out for a while but continue to be one of the best performance for value hard drives available. With two of these running my system in a RAID 0 setup, they're cool, quiet, and fast. Not much more to add, there are plenty of more detailed benchmarks online.Setup-----Case: Antec Nine Hundred TwoPSU: Corsair CMPSU-750TX 750WMotherboard: Biostar T5XE CFX-SLICPU: Intel Core i5-760RAM: A-DATA 2x2GB DDR3-1600Heatsink: Cooler Master Hyper 212+Graphics: MSI N460GTX-1GD5Hard Drive: WD Caviar Blue WD6400AAKS (x2, Raid 0)
Кварковец-5UUJG
26.10.2010
10/10
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The free shipping seems to be getting slower, but This install went off without a hitch. 7 Ultimate 64 loaded in about 15 minutes and was ready for action within 30 of turning on a new machine, built from parts sold here. Luckily I've never had a hdd fail, as long as they were WD. Besides typing here, This machine is used for gaming and folding while idle. Never had a hiccup, installed 35 days ago. Other than security updates it's never been powered down.ssd's are great for instant access, but for gaming these last well, and are 10% of the cost, for the budget minded.
Супернова-7YSKW
24.02.2011
2/10
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The hard drive I get is the one I bought, the order was a 500 GB hard drive with 16 MB RAM and got a 160 GB Hard Drive with 8MB RAM. I demand my money back
Гиперион-0MSIC
14.02.2011
10/10
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Old - very old - smaller WD was starting to die. New WD drive went in easily, was formated (with family help) and is now running and keeping computer overflow. Works good.
Сириус-0ARWG
23.02.2011
8/10
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THE PRODUCT IS VERY GOOD BUT NOT ME CAME PIN POWER ADAPTER TRADITIONAL SOURCES OF COMPUTER PC POWER SUPPLY SATA A WHAT WE COULD DO ABOUT IT?
Пандорец-9GKVC
20.02.2011
10/10
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I own many of these drives and they have been great. Even when I have had a problem WD has always been quick to replace it. I highly recommend!
Аэронавт-7VDLT
24.12.2010
10/10
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Product installed easily without any utilities. Have had Seagates and they do not fair as well as the Western Digital as far as length of service. I've had Western Digitals and they outlast Seagates that I've purchased at the same time. These are more reliable. Price is great and I received it in a short period of time.
Пандорец-8SOMC
31.01.2011
10/10
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It worked beautifully. I just powered down the PC, hooked up the drive, powered up PC, partitioned and formatted the drive. There was no instruction but you could find it from [...]
Вояджер-8FQCJ
15.12.2010
10/10
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I bought this hard drive to put in a 4 year old computer because I toasted the old hard drive. I installed the drive in place of the old one with no problems, I popped in a Windows 7 DVD and was off to the races. As soon as Windows 7 was done installing I ran the Windows Experience Rating program and the drive got a 5.9.
Кварковец-7QMDN
16.01.2011
10/10
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This was the easiest I have ever dealt with an internet purchase.The hard drive came 1 day early and was a breeze to install ,I will return to Amazon again - Thank You
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