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DirFX - Western Digital WD5000KSRTL Caviar 500 GB SATA Hard Drive

	List Price: $96.99 Our Price: $87.70 Your Save: $ 9.29 ( 10% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Western Digital
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Batteries Included: 0 Binding: Electronics Brand: Western Digital EAN: 0718037117645 Feature: 500 GB SATA 3.5-inch internal hard drive; advanced acoustics and cool operation for high-end computers, multimedia and gaming systems Format: CD Hard Disk Size: 500 Is Autographed: 0 Is Memorabilia: 0 Label: Western Digital Manufacturer: Western Digital Model: WD5000KSRTL Platform: Windows Publisher: Western Digital Studio: Western Digital System Memory Size: 16 Warranty: 1 year warranty
Features 500 GB SATA 3.5-inch internal hard drive; advanced acoustics and cool operation for high-end computers, multimedia and gaming systems 7200 RPM spin rate; 16 MB cache; 300 MB/s transfer rate WhisperDrive technology minimizes noise; SoftSeek technology increases operational efficiencies; Data Lifeguard Tools protect data; ShockGuard protects hard drive during operation Designed for low-power consumption 3-year limited warranty
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Editorial Reviews: The Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB Internal Hard Drive is a next-generation SATA hard drive. It features up to 500GB of storage and a 16 MB cache for lightning-fast performance. The drive is fast and reliable, while delivering advanced acoustics and cool operation. It's designed especially for high-performance computers, multimedia and gaming systems.
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: back up drive Comment: Using as a backup drive in a Netwrok Attached Storage (NAS) Works as advertised. No issues and its one of two I installed in the NAS. Customer Rating: Summary: Super Affordable Hard Drive Comment: This hard drive is awesome! I fought with my 300GB hard drive for almost 2 years and ended up having to reformat several times. I did research and decided on the WD Caviar. I plan on ordering another one of these after Christmas when I have more funds. It was a cinch to install and it's quiet and fast. I love it! Customer Rating: Summary: I hate Western Digital! Bought 2 drives - 4months ltr one dead! Comment: I built my 'super computer' a year ago with two of these drives. I have used Maxtor drives for the past 20 years with NO problems. I decided to try WD because of the price and recommendations. Built my desktop beast with screaming Intel Dual Core plus 4GB ram (a lot at the time), 500 Meg Video, two 500gb WD drives. Everything was fine until only 4 months ... my main drive began clicking. Boot would see the drive but windows XP did not! I was mortified!!!!! I tried everything but could no longer access the drive!!!! So my success rate with Western Drives is 50% which is horrible! My success rate with Maxtor drives (I have owned over ten) is 100%. This does not speak well for WD. I tried to get support for this drive and couldn't get any. They said I could get my money back. I WANTED MY DATA BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Western Digital - Never again................. Customer Rating: Summary: works well, included software helps Comment: It seems like after a couple of years no matter what you had before you always outgrow your hard drive. I had put together a computer for home use a few years ago (P4) with a sata 1 motherboard. I was too cheap at the time to do Sata and did a 120gb eied drive instead. It worked OK but was getting full of pictures and I was experimenting with video, and my son started putting on 5 and 10 gb games. I replaced the drive with this new Sata2 drive with only a couple of glitches. It turns out you need to uninstall office 2007, use the included copy software to coppy the drive, and then reinstall office 2007. The copy protect makes office not work quite right and I could not uninstall it and reinstall it after it was copied onto the new drive. Fortunately all the files for outlook worked once I reinstall Office. And my Office 2007 boots up at least 2x faster. The other glitch was I needed to use the jumper they supplied to make it SATA1 for my motherboard. They tell you what you need to do and then tell you wont have to because it is automatic (not). All in all it gives me pleanty of space and my system boots and runs a lot faster. Customer Rating: Summary: Fair price - works as advertised - received it very fast Comment: Got this very fast These caviar hard drives seem to be reliable. I have a 350 and two 250mb that are almost 2 years old and two 250mb that are almost a year old and two 500mb that are over a month old. So far so good More Reviews

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