Western Digital 300 GB Caviar Series EIDE Hard Drive ( WD3000JB )

Average customer rating: 2.0

Dead drive
Lack of Support, Drives fail
Dead hard drive
Large capacity with good reasonable price

Western Digital 300 GB Caviar Series EIDE Hard Drive ( WD3000JB )

Manufacturer: Western Digital
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B0007WWGYO

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Product Description

Cool-running, quiet operation, superior performance and industry-leading reliability make these next-generation WD Caviar SE drives the perfect hard drives for desktop and enterprise storage.WD, the first to introduce an 8 MB buffer, has advanced the caching algorithms of this improved Caviar family of hard drives, resulting in next-generation high performance - performance that matches the speed of most 16 MB cache drives.Heat is a major contributor to hard drive wear, and cool drive operating temperatures help increase long-term drive reliability. WD achieves the lowest operating temperature of any hard drive in its class, including slower drives spinning at 5, 400 RPM, by lowering the drives' power consumption through advanced design of electronics and firmware.Today's PCs, digital video recorders and gaming machines are increasingly operated in environments where noise is less tolerated. WD minimizes WD Caviar noise to levels virtually below the threshold of human hearing with its WhisperDrive technology, which features a highly efficient power driver design. And to cut seek noise, Soft Seek technology streamlines read/write seeking algorithms, resulting in the drive operating more efficiently when accessing and writing data.

Customer Reviews:

Dead drive.......2007-05-11

Purchased due to cheap price and figured I could easily get my money out of it. Died within a couple of months light use. Won't even spin up. I prey WD tech support isn't as bad as comments make it out to be, but I am braced for the fact that my hard earned dollars are likely down the drain.

Lack of Support, Drives fail .......2005-12-07

Lack of Support for Failed Drives

Western Digital will not support your hard drive WHEN it fails. On November 16, 2004, I bought a 250GB hard drive. Three months later in February, 2005, I had to return it for a replacement due to a hard failure. Now, this replacement drive too has failed as well after only eight months.

I went through two Western Digital drives in a year due to no fault of my own and the hard drive failed just six days after the warranty expiration. I requested a replacement from Western Digital and they completely ignored me.

Buy at your own risk.

Pros:
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Cons:
Lack of Support Drives fail

Dead hard drive.......2005-07-07

I bought one of these and it died within one reboot. It was reporting intermittent read/write errors. So I got another identical drive and within a week was completely dead this time. Must have been a bad batch from the manufacturer. Western Digital are usually great.

Large capacity with good reasonable price.......2005-03-30

I bougth this last week and it is absolutely great product to work with. Comes with everything you need to Install and is very quiet and response time is pretty good.

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