Western Digital Caviar SE16 500 GB SATA Internal Hard Drive ( WD5000KSRTL )

Average customer rating: 3.5

WD 500 GB SATA
disappointing
Be careful
Really fast and quiet
Shhhhhhhhhhhh....

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Western Digital Caviar SE16 500 GB SATA Internal Hard Drive ( WD5000KSRTL )

Manufacturer: Western Digital
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000FBSREK

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Product Description

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.

Customer Reviews:

WD 500 GB SATA.......2007-05-25

This hard drive rocks! It replaced an old WD 120GB EIDE hard drive. I now have 2 HDs on my computer, a Seagate ST 250GB and my new one the Western Digital WD 500GB, both SATA. From switching the computer on, it used to take about 4 minutes for XP to come up and use the explorer with the WD120 and 3 minutes with the ST250. The WD500 does it in under a minute! But it is not only the fast I/O. It also got a 16MB cache for lightning fast lookups. I thought that was going to be useless. I was wrong. The cache totally blew me away. It is unbelievable how fast this hard drive brings stuff up by going to the cache first. I give it 2 thumbs up!

disappointing.......2007-02-15

I bought 2 of these drives to set up a RAID1 array (mirror) and one of them continuously has errors, causing the array to be degraded. I called tech support and they said these drives do not support RAID. Big let down, I have to go for the server version which will end up costing much more.

Be careful.......2007-01-28

I have had three of these drives fail in the past six months. Two were on a Mac G5, one was on a Linux system.

On a positive note, Western Digital has a very efficient replacement policy.

If you are still shopping, I would strongly recommend spending a little more and buying an enterprise-class drive. If you have already purchased this drive, you should stop what you doing and back up your data.

Really fast and quiet.......2007-01-28

I buy this drive to replace my old IDE hard drives, this is a very fast and silent drive, and it includes the SATA cable with Secure Connect, this is a great product.

Shhhhhhhhhhhh...........2006-11-29

Not only is this drive much faster than my old IDE drive with 8M cache, it is as quiet as can be. In fact, if I didn't see my screen updating, I'd think the drive was dead it's so quiet! It's almost night and day the difference in noise!!!

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