Western Digital WD3200KSRTL Caviar 320 GB SATA 3.5-Inch Hard Drive
by Western Digital
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Customer Review: Nice drive, quiet! Quick!
Summary: 5 Stars
Nice drive. I'm a video editor/photographer I also Dj part time, I have a irreplacable library of music and promo only's and exclusive remixes etc. plus some finished video projects and tons of photos. All my music was on one drive and all of my photos were on another. I bought this to back both of them up paired with a Rosewill enclosure. Man was I suprised, I thought the drive was broken... it was actually just that quiet you can't barely hear it run at all. It's also quick, I have this version in a My Book, a Maxtor and a Seagate IDE drive in an enclosure and the WD drives are by far quieter, faster and run cooler. The only issue I had was when I plugged the drive in I had to Allocate it and format it... Formatting is no problem, but the computer wouldn't mount the drive and attach a drive letter when plugged in on it's own so I just had to allocate the drive space and assign it a drive letter. No big deal, it only took 4 mins. Overall I recommend and it's a great price!Customer Review: Top Notch Backup HDD
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm running a little over 2tb worth of HDD space on my PC right now, only expanded after buying a HDD Sony Camcorder and getting into editing and making movies.
I purchased this drive mainly as a back up for photos, music, and raw video files needing a place to stay till I get around to editing/deleting them. The install is very straight forward, and was complete in 5-10 minutes.
This drive is very quite, almost silent even when at full operating speed (writing a 40-60gb video file, etc)
I like having everything organized, and this drive really helped with that, since I can keep everything on it until I know what to do with it...or get time to work with it. As I mentioned its also nice for auto backups of photos and music.
I think anybody from an all day computer user to somebody who just needs a place to store their family photos will appreciate the price, size, and quietness of this WD Caviar hard drive.
Customer Review: Read the instructions!
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't want to tell you how much time I wasted assuming that WD couldn't be correct in their claim that it was a breeze to migrate your old Windows to this new drive.
My drive came with a CD containing Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools. I just knew that it couldn't be that easy so I went to the net and concocted a witches brew of steps to clone my old Maxtor. It didn't work so I tweaked the recipe and tried again, several times. So, when all else fails, read the directions. I finally did, several times, it sounded so easy I thought I must have missed something. So finally I spent a few minutes loading the software, a minute or two of clicking through easy software, and 3 1/2 hours of waiting for this process to fail too. EUREKA it worked! Damn, I'm smart!
I'm writing this from my brand new shiny WD Caviar Blue running my trusty old Windows XP,
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Customer Review: Excellent Hard Drive
Summary: 5 Stars
These are excellent hard drives. I'm a big fan of Western Digital so I guess I'm biased... However, for the price - this drive is a definite must for a poor college student who just needs a few extra gigs for music/pictures. I put this into my new Dell Inspiron 530 computer (which also has a WD 320GB Caviar drive as the C:\ drive). I upgraded from an old IDE 5400 rpm drive so all I can say is that these things are insanely fast compared to my old computer.
Yes, this drive isn't the quietest modern drive out there as I can hear it clicking and searching but it doesn't seem to run as hot as some other drives I've seen. I haven't had a problem with the drive sitting for 5-10 seconds when I open up Windows Explorer either. That would be my only complaint about this drive.
I recommend this drive to my IT friends/non IT friends who don't need 1-2Tarabytes of hard drive space.
Customer Review: Great replacement hard drive
Summary: 5 Stars
When my 250GB drive went squirly, I bought this drive based on internet reviews that convinced me that WD was the drive maker to buy. 7200 RPM is Ok for my purposes and the drive replaced was also 7200 RPM. Installation was a breeze. The hard part was file transfered (sorting through 5 years accumulation). Considering the price paid, if I were not retired and a only a casual user, I would suggest buying 2 and setting them up in a RAID configuration. And if I were a business person needing extreme reliability I would have bought 3 for a RAID config. Very pleased with purchase. My first hard drive in 1981 was 10MB, was as big as a carryon suitcase, and cost $3800.00.