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Caviar, mmmm so tasty! This Western Digital Caviar is not the tasty little morsels we seem to love, but it is a hard drive that can store plenty of music, photos, critical data and more because it's got 500 gigabytes (GB) of storage capacity! Its 16 MB buffer and 7200 RPM spindle speed deliver lightning fast performance! Order today!
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- Western Digital Caviar SE16 500 GB SATA/300 Hard Drive General Features: 500 GB storage capacity
- 7200 RPM spindle speed 16 MB buffer SATA/300 interface 8.9 ms average seek time
- 4.2 ms average latency 3.5-inch form factor Regulatory Approvals: CE
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 "500 GB Sata Hard Drive" 2009-09-07
By James H. Adams (Kingston, Ohio)
I got the hard drive as promised and it works just fine. I would recommend this seller as A-1

 "great product, shipping and service" 2009-06-24
By Terry581 (Louisville, CO)
Hard drive works well (western digital). Shipped timely. Arrived just fine. Price was competitive and the unit was as described. I will do business with this company again. Very good service.


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WD Raptor WD740ADFD - Hard drive - 74 GB - internal - 3.5" - SATA-150 - 10000 rpm - buffer: 16 MB (pack of 20 )

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 "works great after RMAing 2 of them" 2009-07-01
By S. Schmelcke (northeast)
the drive is blazing fast but unfortunately the first 2 i got were DOA. im still a die hard seagate fan. my 3rd drive finally worked.

 "Fastest non SCSI drive available....." 2008-02-25
By Rob
Built several performance systems using these drives in a RAID 0, dual Raptor drive configuration, with a generic sata for backup/ storeage. The only reason to get these drives is pure speed, as the $/gb is not competitive with generic 7200 rpm drives.

That said, typical throughputs (as benchmarked by HDtach) with the boxes I've built are ~135 megabytes per second, sustained (after the disk cache is emptied) over a simulated full disk write - far faster than the typical throughput of ~ 50 mb/ second of a typical sata. Anything disk intesive loads ridiculously fast. Well worth the money, esp. in a RAID 0 config. for the demanding user thats willing to pay the extra money for the performance gains.



Pro's: Very fast, with great life expectancy (MTBF of 1.2 million hours) Large cache



Cons: Expensive for the capacity, louder and hotter than a typical 7200 rpm drive (although this should be expected, given the 10k rpm)

 "Great, fast drive" 2007-07-13
By J. Ostenson (Highland, UT United States)
While this drive does produce a bit more noise than many 7,200RPM drives, consider that it's spinning at 10,000RPM, so more noise is to be expected I would think. And, of course, it also gets a little warmer than the normal hard drive so make sure your case has proper cooling. The rotation speed makes a difference, even a noticeable one. I saw many benchmarks attesting to this fact before purchasing the drive myself, but I knew it was worth it for myself when I saw how fast Windows loaded with this drive compared to the 7,200 RPM drive I had before



If you play games with long load times, move lots of files around, or just want Windows to boot up faster, this drive is worth the price.

 "I would still recommend a bigger 16 MB cache hard drive" 2007-06-27
By Munya (California)
All you will get is a whole lotta noise, and the speed is really not all that , even when I overclocked the sucker. My other PC using a Maxtor 16 MB cache 320 GB Sata 2 hard drive does way better for the same price.



Don't waste you money, for the price I paid I could have bought me a 500GB hard drive with all the partitions I ever dreamed off.

 "WD Not for Vista." 2007-03-08
By Peter J. Peltier
Western Digital says that they do not support Vista. This is what there tech support told me. and that I should get another O.S. I could not beleive that when the guy told me that. So, instead I bought a Seagate Hard drive. Bye to Western Digital.


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WD Caviar Green WD10EACS - Hard drive - 1 TB - internal - 3.5" - SATA-300 - 7200 rpm - buffer: 16 MB

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- Western Digital WD10EACS 1 TB SATA/300 Hard Drive General Features: 1 Terabyte (1,000 GB) capacity
- Serial ATA interface SATA/300 data transfer rate
- 5400-7200 RPM spindle speed (determined by IntelliPower) 8 MB cache buffer 8.9 ms average read seek
- 5.6 ms average latency Power Specifications: +5V, 0.70A +12V, 0.55A Regulatory Approvals: BSMI TUV
- cULus Certification for worldwide use
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 "WD10EACS is 5400 rpm, not 7200" 2008-12-03
By anonymous (East Coast USA)
The WD 10EACS greenpower drive is quiet and cool, and has reasonably good performance, but it is a 5400 rpm drive, not a 7200 rpm drive.

 "Works Great as a DVR Hard Drive Extender" 2008-08-21
By SeaWolf's Home Workshop Blog (Florida)


I chose this hard drive to go in an Antec MX-1 Hard Drive enclosure (which included the eSata cable)for a DVR hard drive extender. Installation was easy.

The HD extender works great. More info on this extension can be found on my Blog.

 "NOT RETAIL BOXED ITEM" 2008-03-25
By maxGamer (Seattle, Washington)
This drive came today wrapped in bubble wrap and looking like an OEM resale item. I checked the warranty online with WD and it's good, thank goodness, or I'd have really raised heck.



Anyone looking for a REAL, FULL RETAIL BOXED version should shy away from Electronics Direct. Learn from my mistake.

Heck, for an unboxed version I could have saved another 40.00 and gone elsewhere.


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WD Caviar RE2 500GB Internal SATA-300 Hard Drive - WD5000YS / WD5000ABYS

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- Product Description WD RE2 WD5000ABYS - hard drive - 500 GB - SATA-300 Type Hard drive - internalFor
- Dimensions (WxDxH) 4 in x 5.8 in x 1 in Weight 1.3 lbs Capacity 500 GB - NOTE: THIS PRODUCT CANNOT BE SHIPPED TO MASSACHUSETTS OR DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (WASHINGTON, D.C.)
- Interface Type Serial ATA-300 Data Transfer Rate 300 MBps Average Seek Time 8.9 ms
- Spindle Speed 7200 rpm Buffer Size 16 MB Manufacturer Warranty 5 years warranty
- WARNING: The solder used in this product contains lead, a chemical known to the State of California to cause birth defects and other reproductive harm. Please wash hands after handling internal components and circuit boards and avoid inhalation of fumes if heating the solder.
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 "Great Drive" 2008-12-28
By Aaron S. Evans (Amarillo, TX USA)
Mine was a refurbished item. Works great though. Not much more I can say. I've always been very pleased with Western Digital hard drives. This particular line won't work with some VIA chipsets too well, but you can get a SATA PCI card for $20 that'll fix that problem.

 "Plug and Play, All The Way!" 2008-05-30
By L. T. Brockway (California)
I feel really happy with this new Western Digital 500GB drive! I had to change my order from another drive due to the SATA II design required for my MacPro. The excellent vendor, Mega Micro Devices Inc., gave personal attention to my request for the right drive. I received the drive in two days! I opened my computer, unpacked the drive, slid it into the open bay, closed up and powered up. Less than 15 minutes! I partitioned and formatted the drive, loaded a huge collection of photos. Done! I ran a check on the disk and found no laws or errors.

 "Hard to beat" 2008-04-27
By iouzero (Seattle, WA USA)
To date, after a month or so's useage, I haven't a hint of a problem. The drives worked right, and continue to work right, and I have confidence they will continue to work right. Good products at decent price.



Only slight quibble: I originally bought these drives to use in conjunction with a Cooldrives caddyless drive, but found that their tiny difference in thickness caused them to be unuseable in that drive, as they become stuck and require some fancy juggling to remove. I substituted a Thermaltake Docking Station for the Cooldrive, and things are now going like clockwork.

 "incorrect shipping weight" 2008-01-16
By C. Hill
I will update this review once I receive the HDD. This is to inform anyone who might purchase this that the shipping weight of 15lbs is incorrect. As of Jan 16th 08 the error has not been corrected. I contacted Electronics Direct, and after 15 mins of them telling me that I did something wrong, they conceded that a 1.7 pound HDD is probably not going to be shipped in a 15 pound container. They investigated and found out that they had sent the incorrect info to Amazon. They did refund the difference in shipping, but I doubt I will ever buy from them again, after getting hung up on twice.

 "Fast and reliable internal hard drive." 2007-09-15
By Bob Whitley (San luis obispo, CA)
When i decided to get a new version of Windows Vista i knew that i would need more hard drive space than my current drive had so i got this one.I use this Internal hard drive as my primary C dive and installed Vista Home Premium onto it,everything went smoothly.I like this drive a lot because it works without being noisy or over heating.Even when the drive is doing hard work it stays pretty quiet.This thing is fast,quiet and reliable.


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WD Caviar Blue WD1600JB - Hard drive - 160 GB - internal - 3.5" - ATA-100 - 7200 rpm - buffer: 8 MB

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 "This was the last straw" 2008-12-03
By I. Slatas
I bought a WD300BB (30GB) back in '01 and bought a WD1200JB in '02 to act as a back up drive for a few computers. I got it just in time because after less than 18 months the WD300BB got the click of death. So the WD1200JB became the primary drive for a few months until I bought this drive, the WD1600JB in late '03. While the WD1600JB was shipping, the WD1200JB partially died. I was able to use data recovery software to get most of my data onto the WD1600JB, but it got the click of death in less than a month! 3 dead drives in less than just over 2 years! Western Digital, NEVER AGAIN! I still have a 2GB Seagate from 1996 that works just fine! The rest of my drives are Maxtor, Seagates, and a Hitachi in my laptop. No other brand has failed me so badly as Western Digital.

 "Western Digital is the best, but avoid this model!" 2007-08-14
By Bryan Chambers (USA)
Everything about this drive is pretty standard. I've had nothing but good luck with WD hard drives, I even have 3 in my home machine. HOWEVER, I bought this particular model around May of 06, and now in July of 07 it has already crashed..



4-8 years is a reasonable life expectancy for WD drives, so this one fails miserably.. Just choose a different model, there are many..


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WD Caviar WD800BB - Hard drive - 80 GB - internal - 3.5" - ATA-100 - 7200 rpm - buffer: 2 MB

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- Western Digital WD800BB 80 GB IDE Hard Drive General Features: Formatted Capacity: 80 GB
- 7200RPM Spindle Speed UDMA/100 transfer rate 2 MB Buffer 4.2 ms Average Latency
- 8.9 ms Average Seek Time (Read) 10.9 ms Average Seek Time (Write) Standard 40-pin EIDE Interface
- Standard 3.5-inch form factor Power Specifications: DC +5V, 0.35A DC +12V, 0.50A
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 "I always recommend Western Digital Hard Drives" 2009-02-04
By D. Iverson (Salem, OR USA)
Out of all the Hard Drive manufacturers out there, Western Digital is still the one I use and recommend to others. The WD800BB I just purchased from Amazon was no disappointment. It came professionally packaged, installed easily, and is still working fine.

 "Good 80gig Hard Drive" 2008-08-06
By GroundStar (Battle Mountain, NV, USA)
In a time when 80 gig hard drive are out of style if not use, this was a good unit. Ran continuously for three years without a lost bite. The drive did not produce much noise while spinning, however you could hear the heads moving back and forth, but for me that is a good sign. Unexpected movement of the drive head did lead me to a virus.

 "Only a 30gig drive???" 2003-05-31
By Ruben Guadiana (Silver City, NM United States)
I attempted to format and install this drive (80gig 7200) last night and the computer saw it as only a 30gig drive??? The bios read it as a 30gig drive and the Linux Mandrake install saw it as only having 30 as well. I don't know what could be the problem, I will try installing it on another pc to see what happens. It doesn't seem anyone else has had this problem, I will research a little more, in the mean time, buyers beware!

 "good retail drive" 2002-03-04
By David Koski (San Jose, CA United States)
I bought this after I had two IBM 75GXP drives start showing errors. It is significantly quieter than those drives, measures about the same speed and from my research is more reliable (although my research also uncovered the fact that old floppy disks may be more reliable than the IBM drives). I had no problem installing this in my computer and installing Win 2K on it. The drive comes with a few screws, and an ultra dma cable (use this for best performance). If you are not using Win 2K or Win XP you may have to monkey around with ultra dma modes.

This was a good buy.

 "A constant stream of bad clusters" 2002-01-23
By John Olsson (Palmyra, New York USA)
After about a month of use, my hard drive started having bad clusters. I contacted Western Digital to have the hard drive replaced or repaired, but was told that my hard drive was distributed originally in Europe (although I bought it at a store in Rochester, NY) and that they would not be able to offer any support. I ate the entire cost of the defective hard drive.


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 "Great A/V drive for DVR upgrade" 2009-08-06
By Craig D. Shaw (Austin, TX USA)
I used one of these to upgrade a TiVo HD unit. The drive ran cool during the upgrade process. In operation it is extremely quiet - I have never been able to hear it seek, start/stop, etc. According to the specs. it is designed for A/V applications, and is very low in energy consumption. I think it was a great value for the money. If you want to upgrade a TiVo HD, it is cheap and easy to do with this drive and WinMFS.

 "Replacement harddrive for Tivo" 2009-04-20
By J. Frazier (Jacksonville, Fl)
I purchased this hard drive as a replacement/upgrade for my series 3 TiVo. The wife learned how to use the TiVo and was filling the original 250g drive up. This is one of the recommend drives for a TiVo. It worked great. Very low noise. I can not say much about the long term reliability because I have only had the drive in for a month.

 "Nice and Quiet" 2009-04-18
By Darren Rosenbaum (Los Angeles, CA)
I installed this drive in my S3 TiVo. I now have a ton of recording capacity and it is very quiet - quieter than the stock drive that came with the TiVo.

 "Great Drive for a TiVo Upgrade/Repair" 2009-04-13
By Tim W (DelMarVa)
The internal hard drive on my Series 3 TiVo died while using the Netflix service. It was unfortunate due to the loss of shows and timing, but was also a blessing as I now have quadruple the storage space. This drive replacement was the easiest I've ever done for a TiVo. This is the drive to get for an internal replacement on a Series 3/HD TiVo.

 "Tivo Upgrade" 2009-04-09
By Joe Wireless
Excellent drive. Quiet and great price. My TiVo has been recording for a month and still isn't full.


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