WD RE2-GP WD5000ABPS - Hard Drive - 500 GB - SATA-300 (Q42976) Category: Internal Hard Drives

by Western Digital

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 4 x 1 inches ; 1.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0015LE9H8
• Item model number: WD5000ABPS
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 11, 2008

Product Description

Capacity: 500 GB

Western Digital Serial ATA (SATA II RE2) Green Power 3.5" Internal Hard Drive 500GB 7200 RPM. 16MB Buffer

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars When it works!, September 5, 2008

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Robert Stone "Certified Photo" (New York State) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Western Digital RE2-GP Enterprise 1 TB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive 3.5 Inch, 16 MB Cache, 5400RPM SATA II WD1000FYPS (Personal Computers)

First drive failed Diagnostics. Second drive from WDC, not the Vendor, was DOA (Drive was referbished, and just off the (re)assembly line. If you yell loud enough, WDC will swap out a NEW one not another referb. As they say, Third time is a charm. Works great, saves power. I don't notice the reduced performance over a straight 7200 RPM Drive. The Vendor was not to blame in any way for the drive problems. WDC needs to clean up their act, quality control is very poor on these drives.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mine works well, September 26, 2008

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Mark Colan "duke-of-url" (Medford, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Western Digital RE2-GP Enterprise 1 TB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive 3.5 Inch, 16 MB Cache, 5400RPM SATA II WD1000FYPS (Personal Computers)

I bought one of these for my HTPC, which seems like a perfect use for it. The drive offers a balance between performance and power consumption, plus it is very quiet.

You should know that this drive is not intended to be as fast as a true 7200rpm drive; power savings and quieter operation result from taking the speed down. If performance is more important, there are faster 1TB drives; look elsewhere.

In installed mine and it worked perfectly, and still does, as I expected it would. The system performance does not suffer in ways that I notice, but on the HTPC ultra-fast disks is not a priority.

UPDATE: I bought a second one for 2TB on my media/HTPC ... it also works well.

5.0 out of 5 stars smoking, March 30, 2011

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Ruwelly Shenje "Bee" (Galway, Ireland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Western Digital RE2-GP Enterprise 1 TB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive 3.5 Inch, 16 MB Cache, 5400RPM SATA II WD1000FYPS (Personal Computers)

bought these for my NAS and have been going strong up to today, well over 2 years. never a problem. fairly silent.

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