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 Just the drive, ma'am... March 28, 2008
Brad Blumenthal (Lincolnwood, IL United States)
41 out of 41 found this review helpful
As M. Mola points out, this is an OEM package. It not only has no instructions or software, it also does not have a connector cable, an IDE four-pin to SATA power adapter, or mounting screws.
If you want to replace a failed drive and don't want the clutter that usually comes with a drive, this is for you.
If you want to add an additional drive to an existing system, you'll need to get the cabling and mounting hardware elsewhere.
 Bought two, both Died quick April 22, 2008
A. Smith (USA)
28 out of 31 found this review helpful
I bought this drive from NewEgg because it was marketed as quiet. It's quiet compared to standard drives but compared to the Samsung SP2004C drives I own this is very noisy.
I bought two of these within the past year. They didn't even last a year. The first one started out Ok so I bought a second one, it was a good price for 500GB. Well, there is a reason they're cheap, because they are bad drives.
I've been using computers since I was 12. I'm 28 now, and these are the first drives that have died on me in all that time, (five systems and upgrades later). I always treat the drives very well, avoiding hard resets and shut downs and such. I'm careful, yet despite that both drives I bought failed.
The second one was never quite right, always a delay when accessing data. That one died first. The first one, which I thought was good, died a couple months later. I'm really disgusted with Western Digital. I used to buy only WD because I was satisfied with their drives, especially the 80 GB Caviar.
After this I will be switching to Samsung. The Samsung drives I have bought are quiet and reliable with no quirks. In addition, after the drive died I found my computer is responding better and is faster. Seems the drives were causing some type of lag in my system.
Western Digital seems to be going downhill fast. Avoid these drives and go with Samsung or Seagate with the five year warranty.
Internal Hard Drive October 12, 2007
M. Mola (New York)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Have had no problems. Easy to install. Comes OEM with no instructions or software.
 No problems November 4, 2007
Kleo
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I bought this to replace the hard drive that failed in my imac. What can I say: no problems setting up, more space, pretty cheap - basically no complaints!
Pretty good product and excellent product support June 23, 2008
Geoff Smith
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
It's a good drive so far. I have a Mac Pro and had two of these installed already. I was using them to store my movies and photos. Luckily I had them configured using Leopard's built in raid software where all the data is automatically shadowed to the other drive. A week after I ordered this drive, as an upgrade to another computer, one of these hard drives in my MAC pro, failed. Luckily, because it was in the RAID configuration, I did not loose my data. I've learned my lessons over the years and backup-especially of assets like digital photos is very important--I anticipate some disasters. The good news is, the drive was still under warranty, so I shipped it back to Western Digital and they send me a replacement the next day. I'm very pleased with the customer service and i've had many WD drives over the years and this is the first one that went south.
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