Western Digital 250 GB Caviar Blue SATA 3 Gb/s 7200 RPM 8 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive - WD2500AAJS

by Western Digital

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 4 x 1 inches ; 1.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000Q84G5Q
• Item model number: WD2500AAJSSP
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 4, 2007

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

WD Caviar Blue Hard Drives – Value and reliability for everyday computing.

WD Caviar Blue SATA hard drives deliver solid performance and reliability making them a perfect solution for both family and business computing.

Why you should choose WD Caviar Blue:

A wide array of capacities, cache sizes, and interfaces means there's a WD Caviar Blue hard drive that's just right for you. And because it's from WD, you'll have the confidence in knowing you've selected a drive that's truly world-class.

The original.
These drives are built utilizing the proven technology of the original award-winning WD Caviar 3.5-inch hard drives for desktop computers.

Value.
Built to the highest standards of quality and reliability, these drives offer features and capacity at an affordable price.

Ample capacity.
Store up to 250 GB of photos, videos, music and files.

Features at a glance 250 GB of desktop storage SATA 3 Gb/s interface WD quality and reliability

Ideal for:

• Family and business computing
• Adding storage in desktop PCs or external drives
• Adding extra storage space for photos, videos and music

Features:

SATA 3 Gb/s interface - The industry standard and most common interface.

Cool operation - WD continues to develop new and innovative ways to keep drives cool while they are operating which helps protect the drive and the data stored on it.

Compatible - We perform tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in our FIT Lab to give our customers confidence that our drives will work in their systems.

NoTouch ramp load technology - The recording head never touches the disk media ensuring significantly less wear to the recording head and media as well as better drive protection in transit.

Desktop / Consumer RAID environments - WD Caviar Blue Hard Drives are tested and recommended for use in consumer-type RAID applications. (RAID-0 / RAID-1)*

*Business Critical RAID Environments – WD Caviar Blue Hard Drives are not recommended for and are not warranted for use in RAID environments utilizing Enterprise HBAs and/or expanders and in multi-bay chassis, as they are not designed for, nor tested in, these specific types of RAID applications. For all Business Critical RAID applications, please consider WD's Enterprise Hard Drives that are specifically designed with RAID-specific, time-limited error recovery (TLER), are tested extensively in 24x7 RAID applications, and include features like enhanced RAFF technology and thermal extended burn-in testing.

Upgrading your drive is easy - WD Acronis TrueImage, available as a free download on the WD Support site, enables you to copy all your data to a new drive so you don't have to reinstall your operating system to get all the benefits of a new drive. Note: Bare drive does not include any cables or mounting hardware.

The WD advantage - WD puts our products through extensive Functional Integrity Testing (F.I.T.) prior to any product launch. On average, each new product goes through 600,000 hours of testing. WD also has a detailed Knowledge Base with more than 1,000 helpful articles. You can also call toll-free support 7 days per week in the U.S. and Canada. See the WD Support site for full details.

WD-certified packaging - All WD drives purchased from Amazon.com are shipped in WD-certified hard drive packaging. It is designed and fully tested to provide WD products with the highest of safety while in transit. With WD-certified packaging, you can rest assured that your WD hard drive will arrive safely, fully protected, non-descript, easy-open package.

Compatibility
Works with Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000, Mac and Linux operating systems.

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Product Description

WD Caviar Blue hard drives are available with either SATA or EIDE interface in a variety of cache sizes with a multitude of available features to deliver rock solid performance and ultra-cool and quiet operation. Pick the drive that suits your needs with the confidence in knowing that all WD Caviar Blue drives are built to the highest standards of quality and reliability. With capacities ranging from 40 GB to 640 GB, these drives are the perfect solution for family and business computing.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good, November 24, 2009

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150 F3 - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Western Digital 250 GB Caviar Blue SATA 3 Gb/s 7200 RPM 8 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive - WD2500AAJS (Personal Computers)

It was easy to format and install Ubuntu 9.10 on this drive. It's very fast and quiet. Picasa imported 49,000 photos at top speed. It's currently storing 60 GiB with no errors.

The drive was healthy with no bad sectors. It passed the extended self test. All SMART data was in the green.

Packaging was a simple cardboard box, but it had folded cardboard spacers to center and hold the drive half an inch from the top and bottom, 1 inch from the sides, and 1.5 inches from the front and back. Amazon shipped it in a larger box with an air cushion. The drive had a well sealed anti static bag.

I'm very happy with the product. It made a good first impression. I'm using Ubuntu's file encryption and everything still feels fast. It's working well with a first generation SATA motherboard. I didn't need to add any jumper. It appears to fly along at top system speed.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great quality, August 10, 2009

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M. Arredondo (Fort Worth, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Western Digital 250 GB Caviar Blue SATA 3 Gb/s 7200 RPM 8 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive - WD2500AAJS (Personal Computers)

I bought this drive to install and run an OS on, but i partitioned 50 gigs to the system and 200 for data storage. I've heard getting large hard drives for the operating system can couse it to slow down, but no problem here. First off it is very quiet, and runs very good. It's always stayed pretty cool, as long as its being ventilated. The speedy 7200 RPM disk really helps on loading/saving files on your computer. There isn't much to say since a hard drive only stores and loads files, pretty basic stuff. I'm definitly happy I purchased this product and looking foward to buying another one for my next build.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars new hard drive been good, November 23, 2010

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Jason Milner - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Western Digital 250 GB Caviar Blue SATA 3 Gb/s 7200 RPM 8 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive - WD2500AAJS (Personal Computers)

I got this hard drive to replace my old one that was in my dell inspiron 530s .The old one had a bad sector in it and somehow I fixed the bad sector with a partion software and a few months after the old one started getting around 115f every 30 min . When I got the new the western digital 250gb from amazon i got it in the mail took it out of the box it did not have screws or a sata 2 cable so I had to get the screws off of the old one and the sata 2 cable . It was easy to put in the hard drive and I haven't had no trouble with it and it never ran hot it runs around 100f to 109f