Western Digital WD3200KSRTL Caviar 320 GB SATA 3.5-Inch Hard Drive
by Western Digital
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Customer Review: Nice Hard drive
Summary: 4 Stars
Easy to install. I remember my first large Hard drive was 280 meg for $289 and I said I would never fill it. HA!!Customer Review: WD3200KSRTL Caviar 320 GB SATA Replacements
Summary: 3 Stars
I rated the product 3 stars because although it is very easy to install, I had a failure of the original identical drive after only 18 months.
I have a PC with a RAID mirroring disk drive array. The PC was purchased new from Dell in May 2007. When the failure occured in December 2008, it was out of OEM warranty (Dell, 1 yr), so I bought an exact replacement WD3200KSRTL unit from Amazon.
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The replacement drive arrived from Amazon quicker than expected. The drive installed very easily, and the Intel RAID manager automatically restored the mirrored virtual drives with no loss of data.
I'm now waiting to see if the replacement drive, or the remaining original drive fails. If I get another failure, I will probably go with a higher quality (AKA more costly) drive next time.
I realize that RAID means Redundant Array of INEXPENSIVE Disks, but having been a maintenance engineer for internet access equipment in a past life, I really expect 3.5" disk drives to last more than 18 months. The MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) of 3.5" SATA disk drives is commonly touted as over 500,000 hrs (almost 6 years), and Western Digital has in the past made very fine products, so I am puzzled. I would be a happier camper if they failed within the warranty period, but then I used to calculate warranty periods, and we always set them at just before the MTBF curve peaking began. ;-D
Customer Review: Not as advertised
Summary: 3 Stars
It really is just a bare drive in a box. There was no cable included or driver disk. I would have been better off just buying an OEM driver from another online vendor, and saved money doing so.Customer Review: Review 320 GB Hard Drive
Summary: 3 Stars
The 320 GB hard drive worked as expected. For the price, it was a good deal. I ran out of space on my C:\ drive. I transferred everything except program files to the new drive.Customer Review: Dissapointed on misrepresented item
Summary: 2 Stars
I was dissapointed first by the packing. I ordered two, and both drives were in the same box, with no air bags or bubble wrap! They were floating around the box, unbelievable...
On top of that, these do not have the dual power outlets which is what I was wanting.
THEY ONLY HAVE SATA POWER as NOT shown in product photography.