Serial ATA II (SATA 300) Western Digital 500GB 7200RPM 16MB Hard Drive OEM

by Western Digital

Product Details

• Item Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000VZ3ZH4
• Item model number: WD5000AAKS
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 7, 2007

Product Description

Caviar, mmmm so tasty! This Western Digital Caviar is not the tasty little morsels we seem to love, but it is a hard drive that can store plenty of music, photos, critical data and more because it's got 500 gigabytes (GB) of storage capacity! Its 16 MB buffer and 7200 RPM spindle speed deliver lightning fast performance! Order today!

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great Hard Drive But Not Worth It Now, July 9, 2011

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C. Arko (Renton, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Serial ATA II (SATA 300) Western Digital 500GB 7200RPM 16MB Hard Drive OEM (Electronics)

This was a great hard drive for $60 however you can buy the fastest platter hard drive made (the WD scorpio black) for $5 more and the really awsome Seagate Momentus XT SSD hybrid drive for $30 more. I would recommend either of those insted of this one. If your on a budget go for the scorpio black if you can afford the hybrid Seagate (which I have now) do it, it makes boot times way shorter (10+ seconds faster) than the scorpio black I have noticed personally.

5.0 out of 5 stars 500 GB Sata Hard Drive, September 7, 2009

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James H. Adams (Kingston, Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Serial ATA II (SATA 300) Western Digital 500GB 7200RPM 16MB Hard Drive OEM (Electronics)

I got the hard drive as promised and it works just fine. I would recommend this seller as A-1

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4.0 out of 5 stars WD 3.5 Review, February 28, 2010

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Michael A. Koch (Augusta Maine) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Serial ATA II (SATA 300) Western Digital 500GB 7200RPM 16MB Hard Drive OEM (Electronics)

I recently have built a AMD quad core win 7 machine this hd was not quite what i expected what it was going to be as it lasted only a month before it started to loose its integrity I rma it to the seller and they replaced it with a newer model so as far as the seller I gave it a 4 as far as the drive it was defective from the beginning and I expect to much maybe but the quality of the hd they make now are very poor as its just like everything else no quality control and the drive has a great warranty but definitely is on the lower end of the recent hd that i have used but I will give the new drive a chance and we will see how it does compared to all my other drives its just a matter of you get what you pay for (SOMETIMES)I will update this after i instal the new drive and let my opium stand then but as far as this drive goes spend a little more money and get a better drive I hope this helps some of you as I surely dislike the hassle of having to rely on a hd and have it fail so fast I do computer repair and IMHO all the drives made now are just laking the quality they had several years ago everyone is cutting corners as far as cost and it doesn't make sense to have to go through the hassle of reformatting every other month I hope this will help someone else out there to avoid the problems i have encountered