Western Digital Caviar Blue 500 GB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive 3.5 Inch, 16 MB Cache, 7200 RPM SATA II WD5000AAKS
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Product Description:
With SATA and PATA interfaces, cache sizes ranging from 2 MB to 16 MB, WD Caviar Blue drives offer a full range of performance features. Pick the drive that suits your needs with the confidence in knowing that all WD Caviar Blue drives are built to the highest standards of quality and reliability.
With SATA and PATA interfaces, cache sizes ranging from 2 MB to 16 MB, WD Caviar Blue drives offer a full range of performance features. Pick the drive that suits your needs with the confidence in knowing that all WD Caviar Blue drives are built to the highest standards of quality and reliability.
Features:
- Capacity - 500G
- SATA Connectivity
- Memory: 16M CACHE
- Speed: 7200 RPM
- Size: 3.5 Inch
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: 
- Works fine but HOT!
It does what its supposed to but gets very HOT if you don't have a fan right on it! Don't touch it, or you WILL be burned!
Rating: 
- Good product so far
Well, it came very well packaged and protected, i feel its faster than my previous Barracuda 320Gb, very silent and gets the job well done :), i still cant imagine what im going to fill 500Gb with, but the price was quite reasonable.
Rating: - WD Caviar Blue 640s/ 7200rpm
Inserted two of these into a Rosewill USB enclosure for backup purposes - not RAID, but JBOD.
I still have 400+ gb on each drive to use up, so there is plenty of room to grow. Fast and quiet and so far so good. They don't run hot, but I have to credit the Rosewill enclosure for that.
WD is the way to go for drives. Pretty sure every drive I have in every machine is a WD at this point.
Rating: 
- Waste of time
Not detected in Bios after only one year.
Lost alot of data, good thing i back up the important stuff.
I no longer know which manufacturer to trust.
Rating: - good standard hard drive
I use this in a RAID configuration with the original hard drive that came with the computer, without problem.
- Works fine but HOT!It does what its supposed to but gets very HOT if you don't have a fan right on it! Don't touch it, or you WILL be burned!
- Good product so farWell, it came very well packaged and protected, i feel its faster than my previous Barracuda 320Gb, very silent and gets the job well done :), i still cant imagine what im going to fill 500Gb with, but the price was quite reasonable.
- WD Caviar Blue 640s/ 7200rpmInserted two of these into a Rosewill USB enclosure for backup purposes - not RAID, but JBOD.
I still have 400+ gb on each drive to use up, so there is plenty of room to grow. Fast and quiet and so far so good. They don't run hot, but I have to credit the Rosewill enclosure for that.
WD is the way to go for drives. Pretty sure every drive I have in every machine is a WD at this point.
- Waste of timeNot detected in Bios after only one year.
Lost alot of data, good thing i back up the important stuff.
I no longer know which manufacturer to trust.
- good standard hard driveI use this in a RAID configuration with the original hard drive that came with the computer, without problem.
