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03.08.2009
10/10
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First of all I want to mention that this drive, Western Digital Caviar Blue 640 GB, is the EXACT SAME MODEL that ships pre-installed with 2009 Mac Pro's. Trust me, i opened mine up and checked the model number on the drive in Bay 1. If you ever need an extra hard drive and just want the same one for your Mac Pro, DO NOT buy the "Apple Hard Drive Kit" from the Apple Store. It is the same exact one you can get here on Amazon, and for about a third of the price. You can install it yourself VERY easily (it took me 3 minutes and one small phillips head screwdriver). Its about as easy as inserting a Nintendo game cartridge into an NES game system. Actually it is easier, because you don't need to sit there and blow on it for 5 minutes.That said, onto the review:I swear by WD hard drives and have never been failed by them. They are fast, efficient and rugged. My only complaint is that it could be sometimes a bit loud to hear the drive spinning inside the aluminum Mac Pro housing. But nothing too distracting.Do yourself a favor, if you need to expand your HD space in your Mac Pro get yourself a WD drive. I have 3 of them installed (one Caviar Blue 640 and two Caviar Black 1TB). You won't regret it.I know some people have had nightmare situations with Amazon shipping drives carelessly packed, but the ones I have gotten from Amazon have all been shipped DOUBLE boxed and with plenty of cushioning.
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18.07.2010
10/10
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Have owned lots of hard drives and for the last 5 years or so WD is my drive of choice. They have been very reliable. Years ago I was exclusively Maxtor until they were bought out by Seagate.
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19.04.2010
10/10
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Ive never had one issue with Western digital caviar drives, and I used them the last 10 or more years, since I never shut my machiens off they rn 24/7 and the WD caviar drives just run perfectly.I bought 2 of these caviar blue drives, now a 3rd one, the first 2 came in a nice little box with instruction manual not a little piece of paper, and mounting screws, it was well packaged and it just looked great, you definitely felt and could see its a quality drive.
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01.07.2010
10/10
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We are thrilled with this drive. It was exactly what we needed to get my IMac up and running again. Very fast delivery, excellent price, and I will definitely buy again if I need further products such as this.
Скроменый эксперт
12.02.2009
10/10
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We chose to buy from Amazon instead of Newegg. The methods of storing/handling and packaging these raw, OEM drives causes a lot of DOA units.Newegg (as of 8 months ago from this posting) still has problems with DOA units. I think Newegg may stack these and stress surface mount components, etc. No such problems with the amazon.com drives so we buy 100% of our drives from Amazon.Pros- Quiet- Bulletproof (the AAKS) We have 20+ (now 30+) of these in Dell T3400 Precision workstations and put 3 in each machine.NOTE: We have not had even ONE problem in 2+ years of NORMAL use - see 01/05/2010 update - (oldest 12/30 drive units are 2+ years old, others are 1+ years).Cons- None that I know of so far.Did a lot of research on the platters they use on these drives and the technology. The AAKS seems to be the sweet spot in the line. AACS and AAJS were a bit different but not much. The WD5000CSRTL model seemed to have the most problems.The environment these drives run are lab servers that are "ON" 24/7 so we don't get the same ON/OFF cycles that a home system would have.Checking the hard driveRun the "WD diagnostics" that come with the disk or you can download the utility from the Western Digital site to find bad sectors just in case you get a bad one (we never have).This utility will run on *ANY* disk (not just WD). It may take a few hours for a "full scan" but it's time well spent.01/05/2010 Update: Finally lost one of these 500GB drives due to a move to a new building. The drive was near 2+ years old. The head didn't crash and the drive spun up but Windows XP wouldn't recognize it so it needs some specialized software kung-fu to re-mount the drive. (it was a secondary drive -no OS). The data will probably be recovered into a 2nd drive. I expect one of the movers dropped this particular machine in the move (Hey, it's not a soccer ball, it's a hard drive, what do you expect?) Still a great drive for under $60.
Скроменый эксперт
31.12.2009
2/10
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Ужасно
I used this drive as an external backup inside a Star Tech USB enclosure. After backing up files, installing UBUNTU (just in case my main drive failed I could boot this one up and have access to my files) and after spending a long time organizing those files, I set it aside. I should say it lasted less than three weeks because I barely used it at all after doing the backups. Three weeks later I went to do some more backups and the drive was no longer recognized. I tried plugging it into a different computer - no luck. I put different hard drives into the enclosure and they read just fine. At one point it did read for about 2 minutes and then went dead again. This is the second 500gig drive that died on me this year (the other was a Seagate). I'm awaiting a new drive, but I don't have very high hopes.
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11.06.2010
10/10
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I needed a cheap drive for my new gaming rig, and this worked out quite well. This is a nice drive, is reasonably fast, and has enough storage space for normal use.
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23.02.2010
2/10
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Just because a hard drive (Western Digital Caviar Blue 320 GB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive)is capable of handling high G's is no reason to ship it without cushioning! The drive came in a well-packaged brown box, but had no cushioning inside - none, nada, zip, zilch!! The outside box outside did not say fragile either.I suppose it should not be unsafe to rely on this hard drive to store your precious data since shippers will have given the package TLC in its handling of this package. It's not like they throw packages around!
Скроменый эксперт
12.03.2010
2/10
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Amazon shipped this hard drive as if it were not a sensitive computer accessory. Airbags were half inflated, some not inflated at all. Box containing hard drive was directly at the bottom with no proctection under it and able to move from side to side, only had 'protection' at the top. I sent it back, didn't want to even test the hard drive. Even if it worked, it would probably malfunction a lot quicker than it would have if it were packaged correctly.
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25.04.2010
10/10
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I already had one of these in my computer. I'd been using it for years with no problems, but I was starting to worry that something might happen eventually, so I bought two more and set them up in a RAID 5. All is still going good, I guess. Decent drive, seems fast enough, have yet to see one die.
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21.11.2009
10/10
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This drive was bought as a replacement for my wife's computer, whose drive was totally fried. I should have known more before ordering and installing the drive myself. I was not aware enough of the difference between IDE and SATA, so I ordered a SATA drive for a computer with an IDE motherboard. This required adapters to make the new drive work. Once the adapters were installed (correctly, because I made a couple of mistakes along the way) I got it up and running, with the help of our son-in-law. Getting Windows re-installed also was no picnic, even though we had the disk for it, since it did not include ANY drivers for anything. The drive now works fine, and I stress that the problems I had were not due to the drive, which now functions beautifully, giving my wife more storage space than she will ever use.
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17.05.2010
10/10
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Bought this for my 17" imac after the 160gb went bad after 5 years. I love this drive, big, fast perfect. I could not find a price close to this... and I have noticed a speed boost and am very happy.
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28.02.2010
10/10
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I ordered two of these drives along with an enclosure that was supposed to provide RAID 0/1 functionality. These drives are excellent, but unfortunately the enclosure would not work properly on my Windows 7 box; the RAID 0/1 functionality did not work.I returned both the disk drives and the enclosure. Amazon made the process very easy, and gave me no trouble whatsoever about returning these items. Amazon is the greatest! They have earned my loyalty!
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19.04.2010
8/10
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Хорошо
Great price for this, installed it a couple days ago and had no problems, it is the drive only as has been stated so I recommend you order a 4-pin Molex to SATA Power Connector Adapter(major outlets don't stock these) and a hard drive cable along if you don't already have them.
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27.02.2010
2/10
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Got this on the 7th of Jan, and it worked great. Today is now the 27th of Feb and after 5hours of investigating what was causing repeated lockups and frequent freezes on my OS, the culprit reared it's ugly head to be THIS hard drive. I don't know what caused it's now deteriorating health but I'm now on the risk of losing +400gb of important data. I enjoy these exciting times of my life.. If you want to take the chance on the HD good luck.
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24.10.2009
10/10
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I bought this hard drive to bring resucitate an old workstation that had died on me. 250GB was the biggest drive the Bios and motherboard supported, so I bought this drive.Had this plugged in and running in 5 minutes (it comes in an OEM package, that means no fancy retail box, cables, or instructions). That's ok, I didn't need that. I plugged this sucker in and was up and running installing Windows 7Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade in 5 minutes.First and biggest thing I noticed about this hard drive is how quiet the drive is when compared to the old hard drive. That's the biggest difference I noticed.Overall, I swear by Western Digital drives. They're workhorses.Just FYI Western Digital has scales of Hard drivesBlack - Highest Performance DrivesBlue - Midrange workhorse drivesGreen - Lower power consumption drivesYou can choose what you need.
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03.03.2010
10/10
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Bought this drive as a replacement for a drive that failed. Actually placed the order the same day that I submitted the RMA request to WD for the failed drives. I think I got the replacement for the failed one before the one from Amazon showed up. I knew I would end up with an additional drive, I just didn't expect WD to react so fast.This drive will now start out in my new NAS.... life is good.
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27.04.2010
10/10
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Unit was easy to install once I downloaded the installation procedure for Western Digital. Windows XP made it easy by first installing a signature and then formatting the drive. Once formatted it works fine.
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27.11.2009
10/10
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This hard disk offers exceptional performance. I had a 500GB disk come standard with my desktop but after I had to reset it to factory settings like 3 times, I just resorted to buying a new hard drive.I knew the hard disk was the problem because I'd had to have a replacement sent to me by HP just a few months after I got the desktop. I kind of blame vista home premium for screwing up my hard disk but wutever.I am now running vista ultimate on this WD hard disk. It runs like a champ. NO problems yet. Everything is running smoothly and so far, no signs of trouble.For those of you having trouble with your computer, if you have vista home premium and a crappy standard 500gb hard disk in there, this may be your answer.
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30.04.2010
10/10
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Item came nicely packaged, not flopping around in the box like some reviews I've read..Been using it for a couple weeks now without issue..
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07.02.2010
10/10
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I've tried many HDD brands and I'm partial to WD drives. I've never had any problems with any of them. I still have an old 80 GB EIDE drive until I ran out of room for it and it's several years old. No bad sectors and never a problem. Only retired due to size. This drive is performing as expected. Easy install, no problems. Using it as my primary, multi-boot OS drive. Pretty quiet and would recommend Caviars to anyone.
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10.04.2010
10/10
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I bought this drive to use in my Synology DiskStation. Hard drive is easy to install, and format. It's also very quiet. Looking to buy another one to have as a backup. I would recommend this to a friend.
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16.01.2010
10/10
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Vantec NexStar 3 NST-360SU-BK 3.5-Inch SATA to USB 2.0 and eSATA External Hard Drive Enclosure (Onyx Black)Works as expected. Quite. Heat and vibration have not been a problem. These bulk/OEM drives are perfect for enclosures. I used the linked case and it works great. Don't need any cables, screws or jumpers with an enclosure. Cheaper than buying an external hard drive plus gives me the flexibility to use the enclosure with other drives or install this one in another machine. I like it!
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27.03.2009
10/10
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If you are looking to replace a hard drive and want to get the best bang for the buck then this drive is for you. It comes in a nicely shipped box with full foam padding and in an anti-static bag. I have a mother board with built in SATA connections so plugging it up with the slim line cable that SATA drives use is so easy a 5 yr old could do it. I also have a 500wat power supply that has a single connector for a SATA drive which also is handy.The best thing is that it's 640gb footprint when formated is still close to that size around 648.89, instead of getting a 500gb HD and having 4.5gb. The speed on this is supper fast for my needs and while it runs at 7200 rpm it is noiseless and runs very cool.All things considered, I don't think you can get a better deal on a drive that is comparable in size, cost, speed and quality. If you are looking to jump into the terabite realm you might want to consider getting two of these and running them as a raid, rather than buying the $95 WD green tb drive listed on this products page. From what I understand Western Digital has three lines of these OEM hard drives, the green, blue and black (I think) where the green is on the slow side and the blue is a bit faster and the black is the fastest. Either way, for a few dollars more, you are better off with a raid setup that gives you something like 1.2 tb while the 1tb after formating will be just under that, thus denying you the rightful claim to say you have one terabite under the hood. Happy computing.
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