Western Digital WD5000KSRTL/WD5000AAKS Caviar 500 GB SATA Hard Drive
by Western Digital
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Customer Review: Better than OEM mac drive
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this hard drive for a MAC PRO to use as a spare or back up drive. After using it this way I came realized the the drive seemed to function faster and quieter than the OEM toshiba drive in the MAC pro which was also a 500GB SATA 300 drive. I made this drive the primary drive and relegated the OEM drive as the secondary. I am so pleased with the speed at which this functions and its silence. I have also used Seagate Baracuda drives of similar specs and find this drive to be the winner among the three I have tried.
This drive is a little more expensive than the Seagate but I think worth the price if you are looking for a break from the usual distraction of hard drive noise.
Customer Review: It works!
Summary: 5 Stars
The hardware installed easily in about 5 minutes. It took another 15-20 minutes for me to figure out how to configure the drive under Windows Vista... all of which was OK once I found the right screen and learned the lay of the land under Vista. Getting to the right places to have Vista recognize the hard drive, format it, and assign it the drive letter I wanted was the greater challenge, but everything worked without a hitch.
It is GREAT to have a HUGE amount of storage space available on a second hard drive. I am using it to store all my photos, plus backups of data on my primary hard drive. Good product at a good price.
Customer Review: Fast and Great Hard-Drive
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this hard-drive to replace an older 160GB that was failing. This 500GB Western Digital works Perfect with Windows Vista Ultimate, I say this because I am using it right now. I can Multi-Task with No Problems at all! I listen to my Big iTunes - what I call my jute box music player, I have two Browsers running and a online game running, and this hard-drive keeps up with everything Great! Plus this is the Quietest hard-drive I ever owned!
My System is a Dual Core Pentium D 2.8Ghz and I have 2GB RAM. I use a Diamond Viper X1950 PRO ATI Radeon 512MB video card.
Customer Review: This harddrive is awesome!
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this harddrive in order to have more space for my music and pictures. it is very quiet and also very fast. I use it as my new C drive now and I did not expect just a fast harddrive to accelarate my system this much. Booting and picture browsing so much faster now - even though I copied the files from my old C drive 1:1. It also comes with a SATA cable. I can highly recommend this product.Customer Review: Excellent, extremely quiet drive
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought four of these drives as additional volumes for four Dell PCs after reading customer reviews, some of which mentioned how quiet the drives are. It true. I could barely hear the drives operating while I was formatting them - and that's with the cover off the PC's. Gives you the perception that they're precisely designed, machined and aligned drives. Smoothest running drives I've ever used.