Western Digital WD5000KSRTL Caviar 500 GB SATA Hard Drive | 
| Brand: Western Digital
List Price: $109.99
Buy New: $79.99
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New (41) Used (4) Refurbished (1) from $63.11
Rating:  47 reviews
Sales Rank: 2482
Format: Cd
Platform: Windows
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows
System Memory: 16
Hard Drive Size: 500
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 9 x 9 x 8
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: WD5000KSRTL
Model: WD5000KSRTL
UPC: 718037117645
EAN: 0718037117645
ASIN: B000FBSREK
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 500 GB SATA 3.5-inch internal hard drive; advanced acoustics and cool operation for high-end computers, multimedia and gaming systems | | • | 7200 RPM spin rate; 16 MB cache; 300 MB/s transfer rate | | • | WhisperDrive technology minimizes noise; SoftSeek technology increases operational efficiencies; Data Lifeguard Tools protect data; ShockGuard protects hard drive during operation | | • | Designed for low-power consumption | | • | 3-year limited warranty |
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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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 42 more reviews...
 Be careful January 27, 2007
MSW (San Francisco, CA)
37 out of 53 found this review helpful
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.
 Shhhhhhhhhhhh.... November 28, 2006
F. T. Zvovushe (Fairfield, CT, USA)
21 out of 23 found this review helpful
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!!!
Excellent Hard Drive for the Mac Pro July 1, 2007
A. Abrams (Vermont)
19 out of 20 found this review helpful
I purchased three of these for my Mac Pro Quad Core desk top which I purchased at Amazon. One 500Gb is set up as stand-alone/backup hard drive and Two 500Gb are set up as a RAID. They installed very quickly without any issues at all, are fast and work well with a Dual Processor Intel system, and are super quiet. I emphasize how quiet they are since I've had many Maxtor brand hard drives which while are quite reliable as well, but, seem to vibrate annoyingly at a frequency that resonates through the PC case. These WDs are in fact much quieter considering that TWO of the 500 GB SATAs plus another stand-alone 250 (comes with the Mac Pro for OS/boot drive) and a 3rd 500 Gb WD SATA drive of the same model (a total of four installed) are all installed and running so quietly. There's no noise or vibration to hint that 4 of these are inside the Mac Pro case. Read and Write performance on both the RAIDS and stand alones has been excellent. Highly recommended.
disappointing February 15, 2007
Eric (New Jersey)
16 out of 30 found this review helpful
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.
WD 500 GB SATA May 25, 2007
C. Philippides (USA)
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
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!
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