Installed into my Macbook Pro and it worked well for the first 6 months, but problems slowly started showing up. After about a year, I got a white screen when booting up. The disk utility in OSX repair mode showed that the hard drive was reporting a S.M.A.R.T failure.
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31.08.2012
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Have always seen good things with WD products but sadly this one crashed after four days -- failing in its very purpose to act as a backup drive.
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Great disk for the price and performance. Fast access time,reliable product. Would buy this again for my Server and NAS Storage unit
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20.08.2011
10/10
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I bought this WD 500 GB drive to replace the Hitachi Deskstar PN: 0A36891 when my girlfriend's HP Desktop gave her an alarming diagnostic code indicating potential failure of her hard drive. I ordered it on a Saturday and it was in the mailbox the following Friday. It arrived well packaged. All I had to do was tear open the static bag and connect the two ribbon cables and four drive screws.I had downloaded Acronis True Image 2011 to create an image of the old hard drive and burned an Acronis Recovery CD. The image was placed on a Buffalo USB 2.0 500GB that I had previously purchased from Amazon. Following the drive replacement, I started the desktop and booted from the Recovery CD and the Acronis software asked me to identify the target and source drives. 33 minutes later, I had restored the 126 GB image and then rebooted from the hard drive. Everything was there and the girlfriend was happy.This drive has comparable performance specifications to the Hitachi models, but was priced much better.
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04.02.2012
4/10
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bought it on March 2011reach 200/500GB now (February 2012)problems:-read/write speed drops pretty badly-have hard time installing or downloading anything large-computer crash several times with blue screen saying hard disk problemfor the price I paid, half dead is acceptable since it haven't lose any data yethowever, it will be nice if it last at least 3 years...
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28.09.2011
10/10
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I have had two of these drives running in RAID0 for two and a half years now! I have never reformatted or re-created the array. They run fast and they have been solid all this time, writing and reading data 24/7 with an uptime of 99% or better. They are amazing drives when properly cooled and cared for. The only cons I would say is that they seem to have gotten slower over the years but some degradation is to be expected, and they are mostly full all of the time as of now. Basically, I have to add more space and take the load off this array and I think I'd gain some speed back. In general though, they're fast, cheap, and they tend to last. If you have a chance to buy these, do so!
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05.01.2012
10/10
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I have had this drive for several years and it still going strong.It was easy to install. No drama there.I installed it in a Thermaltake BlacX and use it as an external backup drive.Speeds are good, this was a good purchase.I'm not sure if this is common or normal, but this drive runs really hot to the touch.
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06.02.2010
8/10
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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.
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24.10.2010
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I got this a month or two ago. I installed it, attempted to clone my Windows drive, it worked, however I booted to an error. The error turned out to be related to missing boot info. After formatting and cloning again, and some recovery console work I got it to boot. However to a Temporary User account. After digging for hours with no results pertaining to a fix, I again formatted. I resigned myself to use it for storage until I decide to do a fresh install of Windows. I moved some files from another disk(I have 4 including this) let the computer go to sleep while I was away doing other things, decided to move the contents of a smaller drive to it and came back and noticed it was missing from My Compter. Looked in Storage Management and it showed as raw. Partition Table got corrupted or disappeared. After fixing that issue, Its been running fine. A bit(about the same really) slow compared to my 320gb Seagate that I've had for a few years according to HD Tach.I still have not committed to putting anything important on it, I guess I'm a little paranoid after the Partition Table incident.Personally I have only had to RMA 2 hard drives since 2002 out of 12 or so.All of that out of the way. I am very wary of hard drives lately, I've seen a lot more negative reviews from buyers complaining of DOA drives or drives that fail in hours or days than I did in the past. I accept that there's a fair chance my drive may die on me at some point either in or out of warranty, but to have it fail so early in its usage worries me. Quality Control is apparently declining in most of the major Manufacturers.
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28.03.2011
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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!!!!!!!!
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27.09.2011
10/10
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Cant hear this drive running half the time. Simply a great product and for the money this can't be beat. I think I paid like 50 or 59.00 at the time.
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18.09.2011
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So far so good. Easy install and the drive works well. Can't hear a thing. I can't speak to longevity since it hasn't been a half year yet.
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This item came well packaged, was delivered on time and it's exactly what i wanted for my HP desktop. I was very pleased. Installation was easy, all I had to do once it was installed was use my rescue disks and I was set. Thank you very much.
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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...).
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22.06.2011
8/10
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So far I Love it! Just installed it, but I had two of these in my PC B4 I messed up one. I visited a Hacker site not knowing they would consider me a non-hacker and they sent a trojan wiping out one of my HD. Learned me lesson but I had to get another matching drive. It's very fast and quite. Don't know what you're waiting for... buy it now!
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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.
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06.06.2011
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This is my 4th, not because they fail, but because I can't get enough of the 500G AAKS, they are quiet and pretty quick. I have just added this one to my RAID 0 and have 1.7TB of usable storage with an average transfer raid of almost 300MB/s with a Max of 384MB/s out of a software RAID on Ubuntu 10.04. Boot time is about 15 seconds from POST. All in all, these are really good drives.
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30.12.2010
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Western Digital & Seagate both produce excellent drives in which I have a high confidence. My purchase was the WD Caviar Blue with a fairly large buffer. It has a good warranty period (longevity rating in this case). The old WD drive it replaced fell within expected lifetime. The new drives have amazingly fast throughput, but users should not waste their time on drives with rotational speeds less than 7200RPM and buffers less than 16M. Of note is that in most cases, the "bulk/OEM" drive unit is the most cost effective purchase in that these are usually purchased for replacement. Therefore, the mounting hardware is easily transferred from the old to new drive. The data cables are keyed, so installation is virtually foolproof. The new drive's geometry will be automatically recognized by the system for setup and format. This new unit shipped promptly, and was delivered promptly.
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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.
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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
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17.10.2010
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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.
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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.
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29.09.2010
10/10
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not a bad deal for a hard drive, it is bulk, which means its the bare minimum of packaging quality and otherwise, but you dont really need an instruction manual or anything to install a hard drive, just screw it into place and plug in the SATA and power cable.a bit of a note, this doesnt come with a SATA cable, its just the hard drive in a static resistant bag in a plain cardboard box. so if you dont have an extra SATA cable lying around, you are going to need one.Build:ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 - AM3 - AMD 890GX - DDR3 - USB 3.0 SATA 6 Gb/s - ATX MotherboardAMD Athlon II X4 640 Propus 3.0 GHz 4x512 KB L2 Cache Socket AM3 95W Quad-Core Processor - Retail ADX640WFGMBOXCorsair 4GB Dual Channel Corsair DDR3 Memory for Intel Core i5 Processors (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9)OCZ OCZ550FTY Fatal1ty Series 550W Power SupplyWestern Digital Caviar Blue 500 GB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive 3.5 Inch, 16 MB Cache, 7200 RPM SATA II WD5000AAKSThermaltake V5 Black Edition Mid-Tower Gaming Chassis VL70001W2Z (Black)Lite-On LightScribe 24X SATA DVD+/-RW Dual Layer Drive IHAS424-98 - Retail (Black)
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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.
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