Customer Reviews

Western Digital WD2500JB Caviar SE EIDE 250 GB Hard Drive

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

The description for this product says "Full kit includes drive cables, installation and management software, and illustrated instructions". All I got was an OEM drive... just the drive with no cable, rails, software, instructions or anything else. I don't know if an underpaid stockboy just screwed up or what, but everyone should be aware.

I'm keeping it because I just wanted the bare drive anyway, but I wanted to warn others who might be counting on the additional items.

Purchased this drive to replace a smaller 13GB slave unit (also a WD drive that had worked flawlessly for over 8 years but was unable to keep up with the storage demands of our new 7MP digital camera). The package contained only the bare bones drive unit itself, no documentation, no software, nothing else. That was fine for my case but could cause concern for some first-timers. I first just set the jumper on the new unit to the slave position, changed out the drives and restarted the system (Window XP Home). The new hardware detection ran OK and the new device showed up as operating correctly in Device Manager, but it was not visible in My Computer because it was not yet partitioned & formatted. After downloading the "Data Lifeguard Tools" program from the Western Digital support web site, and running the program to modify the registry for high-capacity drives, restart and partition/format process, all was well.

I bought this drive to replace a smaller drive that was starting to make scary noises. The formatting, partitioning, and disk copy software worked as advertised, but the system didn't initially recognize it when I configured it as the master drive. I had to fiddle with the jumpers, but once I got that figured out it was fine.

I just bought these and also an external enclosure to use it as an external hard drive, so far i have tried it on linux (ubuntu), osX, and windows XP and it seems to work just fine

I have needed more storage space for some time. I looked around and found this Hard Drive at a very reasonable price. It is very quiet, fast and simple to install. For those of you who need an EIDE Hard Drive, this one is more than up to the task.

Pros: Western Digital! Ease of installation, fast, quiet.
Cons: None.

Definitely recommend this to anyone with an older PC not set up for SATA.

Required reformatting. This would have taken forever if I hadn't had another puter to connect via USB. Othewise perfect. Flawless. I'd buy more. Wait... I have bought more already. Good drive. Go for it.

After 6 months of happiness my drive is having lots of problems. I'm getting lots of blue screens and auto disks scans. I'm gonna go buy a different one.

This product has worked flawless in my ancient IBM computer. If you cannot install this extremely easy to install hard drive by using the old cables then please do not knock this Product. It is simplified and very easy to plug in two cables and place the old rails onto the new Product. I would advise that you disconect the power cable to your computer before installing this hard drive. Excellent Product for the money.

Do not buy from this seller, they never ship my order. My money was on hold for three weeks, waiting for the dead line of shipping time before I can file for a claim on Amazon. I send three emails to the seller without any response during the shipping period. So that puts my computer on dead water while wating for the Hard Drive to come, which they never ship. Too bad there is no zero star on amazon review. I put zero star on this one!

That's why these, the coolest on the market, are the drives of choice.When ever I use WD, I have nothing but good luck, and have since stopped looking for the cheapest HD drive to use. I am sticking with WD