Customer Reviews

Western Digital 80GB 7200RPM 8MB CACHE IDE Bulk/OEM Hard Drive WD800JB

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In my mind, a good hard drive is one about which there's not much to say.

The hard drive is easy to install. The connectors and jumper positions are all clearly marked on the harddrive itself. When using the master/slave jumpers instead of cable select, it doesn't matter where on the cable the drive is, which makes for good space and cable management in your case. All the connectors fit easily and securely.

This 80GB hard drive is one of the most quiet I've ever owned, which suprised me. At 7200 RPM and with an 8MB cache, it's also quite fast. The speed of formatting suprised me, and with my computer running, you can hardly hear the read/write accesses.

All in all, a good drive, and a good buy. I've bought Western Digital before, and I've never been anything but pleased with them. I look forward to the many years of reliability that I'm sure this drivewill bring.

The product description says, " Data Lifeguard Tools is a set of software utilities that work in conjunction with the embedded Data Lifeguard features to make hard drive installation, drive management diagnostics, and repair simple and worry-free." However, the drive arrived in a plain box with xeroxed instructions and without any software. The instruction pages were jumbled in the wrong order, with some pages upside down. The OEM box was nowhere to be seen. What makes this "caviar" is left to your imaginaton. It should be labelled the "catfish" edition. Needless to say, I am returning it.

I bought a WD drive and it failed after 12 months of light use. WD folks told me it must've been something I did. I was backed up, but lost a lot of irreplaceable baby pictures. They wouldn't do anything, as it was after a year. Buy a Hitachi hard drive, these are total junk and could cause you the same heartache they caused me.

Well packaged in bubble wrap then priority mail box, delivered in one day in my case, who-ho. I installed the drive in the place of the drive that was failing, then I reinstalled my windows 7 (clean install) and all of my new software again. The new drive is double the size and quiet.

THE HARD DRIVE WAS DOA ON ARRIVAL, BUT I WILL CONTINUE TO DO BUSINESS WILL THIS COMPANY AS SOMETIMES THIS HAPPENS WITH ELECTRONICS. NOT A BIG DEAL. THANK YOU

Worked well for 2 weeks....THEN PUKED!!

WD had one chance with me and blew it!

I can only note my disdain by never doing business with them again...they caused me a great deal of aggravation.