Western Digital WD5000KSRTL/WD5000AAKS Caviar 500 GB SATA Hard Drive
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Customer Review: Well Satisfied
Summary: 5 Stars
For what I wanted this drive for, (NAS Storage) it is a very good purchaseCustomer Review: works well, included software helps
Summary: 4 Stars
It seems like after a couple of years no matter what you had before you always outgrow your hard drive. I had put together a computer for home use a few years ago (P4) with a sata 1 motherboard. I was too cheap at the time to do Sata and did a 120gb eied drive instead. It worked OK but was getting full of pictures and I was experimenting with video, and my son started putting on 5 and 10 gb games. I replaced the drive with this new Sata2 drive with only a couple of glitches. It turns out you need to uninstall office 2007, use the included copy software to coppy the drive, and then reinstall office 2007. The copy protect makes office not work quite right and I could not uninstall it and reinstall it after it was copied onto the new drive. Fortunately all the files for outlook worked once I reinstall Office. And my Office 2007 boots up at least 2x faster. The other glitch was I needed to use the jumper they supplied to make it SATA1 for my motherboard. They tell you what you need to do and then tell you wont have to because it is automatic (not). All in all it gives me pleanty of space and my system boots and runs a lot faster.Customer Review: Great drive, not so great manual
Summary: 4 Stars
I purchased this drive to replace a failing external LaCie 250GB drive.
So far so good, the drive works well, silent and fast.
I just had a hard time getting it online. Actually, the installation manual was not very helpful.
I had to use the F2 setup screen to enable the 2nd internal hard drive. It was disabled as a factory default and nothing in the manual nor on WD web site was pointing in that so simple setting problem.
BTY, WD web site has only 10 FAQ and the customer support is open only during US business hours, so for me, it is hard, I can do this only after business hours. I am working you know.
Once over it, everything went smooth, The initialization phase was surprisingly fast for such large drive (set up as slave).
I still give it a good price quality ratio. If I go installing internal stuff, I have to be kind of a geek.
Customer Review: Wasn't As Easy As i Thought It Would Be
Summary: 4 Stars
Many reviews said you just plug it in and it goes. This was not the case for me. I attached very easily. I had to get someone with some tech knowledge to help get this process started.
I know very little about computers, but once tech savy person got me going it was fine. I am up and running. Almost bought a whole new computer because of crashed HD.
Bought this and saved a few Hundred $$ for now.
I am only intersted in surfing web really. Anything I save is on external HD. So this works for me just fine.
Customer Review: 500 GB SATA drrive
Summary: 4 Stars
These drives are great.. so far anyways. I got three of them. I use one as a system drive and then I created an array for media storage (1TB).. I do put a hard drive through a lot of stress.. I am a developer so I have had many drives crash out on me. I can't say how these will be long term but so far they are performing nicely. Do not buy those Samsung spinpoint drives.. I had 2 of them crash really fast and the replacements crashed out also ... the first set crashed before a year and the replacements lasted just over one year!!