WD Caviar 250 GB Internal Hard Drive - 1 Pack

WD Caviar Special Edition 7200 hard drives deliver data to users faster than any desktop hard drive has before. Perfect for games, DV editing and file server applications.

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  07-15-07

  Duration of ownership: 5 Months

  Strengths: fast, quiet

  Weaknesses:dead after 5 months

  Overall Evaluation: I purchased two of these drives and build a mirroring RAID array out of them. They performed well until one day after 5 months of light use (2 to 3 times a week for a few hours) one drive stopped working and only managed to produce the "click of death". I figured, I get the disk drive test tool from WD and figure out what the problem is so that I can use that for the RMA process. In order to boot my system I removed the clicking drive and booted with the remaining drive of the array. I got the tool and ran the test to get the dubious 0223 error code that claims that there were errors, but that they are now fixed. A few days later I went on to rebuilding the array, which failed because now both drives clicked announcing the soon death. I managed to get one drive up long enough to copy files from it, before it clicked away again.I checked the warranty and the ones that I have supposedly have 3 years. I contacted WD to ask when they pick up their crappy product and give me new drives as replacements (not the refurbished garbage as usual). I yet have to get their response, but to have two drives fail within days not even 1/4th into warranty time is either a misdesign, horrible quality, or both.These drives aren't cheap compared to others with same specs so I am quite upset. I recommend giving your money to someone else other than WD. They don't deserve it.

• Reviewed by: SilverJay

  11-15-05

  Duration of ownership: 3 Years

  Strengths: Large capacity (not so much nowadays)

  Weaknesses:High failure rate

  Overall Evaluation: I have had two of these drives, one purchased just under three years ago the other about two years ago. Both of them failed with the same symptoms within three months of one another. The drive would attempt several times to come up to speed then quit. No warning or oppurtunity to retrieve data. The first was replaced by WD under warranty however they refused to honor their warranty on the second drive claiming it had been "tampered with" (it hadn't).

• Reviewed by: Ironfist69

  07-08-05

  Duration of ownership: 3 Months

  Strengths: My drive went in and loaded easily

  Weaknesses:None

  Overall Evaluation: I use my hard drives in pairs, this go round was Maxtor and had nothing but grief! If it wouldn't load, Windows didn't like it, and on and on. Then there was Tech Support who assumes everyone is an idiot and their product is perfect. When ever I use WD, I have nothing but good luck, and have since stopped looking for the cheapest HD drive to use. I am sticking with WD

• Reviewed by: dodge94

  06-20-05

  Duration of ownership: 6 Months

  Strengths: Fast,quite and good price

  Weaknesses:CRASHED!!!! 1 year warranty, but can be extended thru WD to 3 years which I recommend.

  Overall Evaluation: This is the third WD to go out on me. This was used for back up and was used very little. I had a 200 go out about 6 months after installation and now this one. They both started ticking. I notice that this happens both times after I get a power flux at home, even thou I have it connected to a backup battery power protector. I also have a friend who maintains computers at a military installation and he told me that he had 9 out of 10 computers hard drives go out after a power flux. He said that the 9 were WD and the only one that didn't crash had a Seagate. I'm not sure what this means, but I will be looking for a different hard drive manufacturer for my next purchase. Oh! I did have a WD 80GB that lasted 3 years and 2 months.

• Reviewed by: Ace1627

  01-05-05

  Duration of ownership: 2 Months

  Strengths: Price

  Weaknesses:None

  Overall Evaluation: I do not really know how to rate a hdd. It works. It holds a lot of space. I have had no trouble with it.

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