WD Caviar Blue WD5000AAKS Hard Drive

WD Caviar SE16 drives combine 16 MB cache with 3 Gb/s transfer rate for lightning-fast performance in demanding desktop and workstation applications. Technologically acoustics minimize noise and cool drive operation and enhanced reliability features help protect the drive and the data stored on it.

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• Reviewed by: FrankVanImschootzx84

  07-20-11

  Duration of ownership: 2 Years

  Strengths: price, quiet

  Weaknesses:Not reliable, short warranty

  Overall Evaluation: Because of the drive not being reliable (2 time a disk died after 2 years) and the warrenry being short (and not getting full warrenty in replacement disk) makes this drive a NO GO!!

• Reviewed by: samD1965

  09-21-08

  Duration of ownership: 6 Months

  Strengths: Reliable, quiet, fast cache

  Weaknesses:None

  Overall Evaluation: This is my second WD 500G drive. I added a second drive for media storage. The access time is fast. The drive is quiet. I've been using these drives for about 6 months and so far no problem found. Never got any error on routine drive scan. Sata set up is easy and windows XP recognizes the drive right away.

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  11-30-07

  Duration of ownership: 2 Months

  Strengths: quite and Phast! and it wurkz in my Mac Pro... easy install and quick...

  Weaknesses:none

  Overall Evaluation: Thank you MWave, the price keeps moving in the right direction... i did a lot of research and found this drive to be the best value and easy install/expansion for my Mac Pro... i do a lot of video wurk and this was a very good investment for my system... i should be getting two more as soon as i finnish my current project... if you are reading this, just buy it so you can get it installed sooner than later... inJOY

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  09-12-07

  Duration of ownership: 1 Days

  Strengths: 500 Gb, price, speed... and on and on

  Weaknesses:this is the "bare drive" version, and it is just that. don't expect more that just the drive!

  Overall Evaluation: This drive arrived in a mf sealed plastic envelope, wrapped in bubble wrap, nested in a big box of peanuts. (excellent packaging!) The "bare drive" version is just exactly that. There were no screws, no documentation, not even an invoice in the box. (I didn't need those things, so it was no big deal.) I installed this drive in about 3 minutes. It appears to be perfect. I am upgrading from an 80 Gb (secondary) drive, so this is a big improvement for me! I ordererd this on the 10th, paid for 2-day shipping, and it arrived on the 12th. I could not be happier about the product, the price, or the service I received from mwave.com! A+++

• Reviewed by: edsager

  07-30-07

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  Strengths: Very fast data transfer rate, easy setup, very good price, pretty quiet, good warranty, proven reliability

  Weaknesses:No perpendicular recording technology

  Overall Evaluation: I purchased this product because of its capacity, seek times, reliability, its price and most importantly, data transfer rates. I also eliminated other models from consideration due to not being quite as quiet as this model. I wanted the perpendicular recording technology, but it is a bit more expensive and not as fast with the data transfer rate. On the other hand, the drive with perpendicular recording technology is reported by many to be nearly silent; however, the silence was not a sufficient enough reason for me to spend more and receive slower transfer rates.This HDD is very quiet, has excellent data transfer rates and is recognized by Windows Vista. I have been happy with Caviar drives before, and am certain I will be just as happy with this HDD.

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