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Reviews for WD Caviar Blue WD5000AAKS Hard Drive500GB - 7200rpm - Serial ATA/300 - Serial ATA - Internal - Bulk - MPN: WD5000AAKS
$71.00 - $110.73
By member:
sbetts428
- Apr 29, 2007
Great Hard DriveStrengths: This drive is worth the money. I've always used WD and I am always happy with my purchase. Weakness: Can't find a single one. It's a hard drive, what else do you want. I recommend ordering from a retailer you trust and has a good warranty and return policy. And for those who are saying that they are losing HD space, try turning off system restore for that drive . But only if it is a secondary drive. Although I recommend leaving it on because you may need it one day. 100% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
By anonymous - Sep 12, 2007
very fast and easyStrengths: 500 Gb, price, speed... and on and on Weakness: this is the "bare drive" version, and it is just that. don't expect more that just the drive! This drive arrived in a mf sealed plastic envelope, wrapped in bubble wrap, nested in a big box of peanuts. (excellent packaging!) The "bare drive" version is just exactly that. There were no screws, no documentation, not even an invoice in the box. (I didn't need those things, so it was no big deal.) I installed this drive in about 3 minutes. It appears to be perfect. I am upgrading from an 80 Gb (secondary) drive, so this is a big improvement for me! I ordererd this on the 10th, paid for 2-day shipping, and it arrived on the 12th. I could not be happier about the product, the price, or the service I received from mwave.com! A+++ 100% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
By member:
psk0100786
- Jul 3, 2007
Western Digital 500GB HDD great for everythingStrengths: 3 platter design Fast seek, read, and write times. It's S-ATA-300. Western Digital offers RMAs from most of the sellers on PriceGrabber free of cost Weakness: Not optimized for RAID (simply put, more than 1 hard drive acting as a single drive) This is a Western Digital hard drive. I've had other brands, and WD is one of the few brands that seem to survive the test of time. The write time for this model is 2 ms slower than the 5000ABYS model. However, the ABYS model is made for RAID. 100% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
By member:
samD1965
- Sep 21, 2008
Good buyStrengths: Reliable, quiet, fast cache Weakness: None This is my second WD 500G drive. I added a second drive for media storage. The access time is fast. The drive is quiet. I've been using these drives for about 6 months and so far no problem found. Never got any error on routine drive scan. Sata set up is easy and windows XP recognizes the drive right away. 100% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
By member:
bjf2000
- Apr 30, 2007
n Caviar SE16 500GB Hard Drive (Serial ATA-300,...Strengths: 160GB platters makes for higher density and therefore less noise, vibration, and heat. Weakness: Retail version only has 1-year warranty Save for the warranty (OEM version has 3 years) and excellent drive that's quiet, fast, and cool. This and Samsung HD501LJ are probably the class of the 500GB field right now. WD also offers advanced replacement warranty service. 75% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
By member:
bartender23ck
- Feb 11, 2007
Western Digital HHD are the best!Strengths: 500GB, SATA2, PRICE, SPEED, WD NAME, OEM w/ 3 Yrs Warranty (Retail = 1yr) Weakness: Some say it gets a little hot I love Western Digital Hard Drives. I would never buy any other brand. I have never had a WD hard drive fail on me. I currently own a 36GB Raptor, this 500GB (replacing a 120GB WD drive), and an external 250GB. If you want smooth, reliable and fast drives go with WD! 56% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
Reply by member: new_website85
Mar 5, 2007 "I have never had a WD hard drive fail on me."
By anonymous - Apr 2, 2007
It does its jobStrengths: Lots of space, nice price. Weakness: Only 465 GB useable. That's 35 off. A lot of missing space if you ask me. So far so good. A nice addition to my 200 GB (80+60+80 external) It's my first time ordering a Western Digital drive and I have no complaints. Would definitely buy again if possible. 11% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
Reply by member: kanyabumoto
Apr 6, 2007 NA must be relying on Microsoft's display that shows 465 GB.
Reply by member: BriteLeaf
Mar 12, 2008 One thing you may or may not be aware of is the fact that the term GB, in HDD term is only 1 billion bytes, not the 1,024,000,000 bytes that is a true GigaByte. I remember back in the day when I paid $300.00 for a 2 GB HDD, and today I can get one that is 500 GB for about a hundred dollars. 250 times the storage space, for about a third the cost. God I love Innovative Technology! :D
By member:
disarmdstr
- Jul 5, 2007
Quiet, Fast, Affordable. Great buy!Strengths: SATAII speed. Performance benchmarks are great too. Quiet too! Weakness: Ughh... none that i can think of. This harddrive is a great buy. The performance is fast! This thing was qualified to earn a 5.9 (highest score) on Vista's index meter. I use XP so I have no tried to verify this yet but that was one of the selling points. Another selling point is that it is quiet. Highly recommended since this only cost a few bucks more compared to other louder harddrives like my Seagate Barracuda 7200.10. 0% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
By anonymous - Nov 30, 2007
eXcellent driveStrengths: quite and Phast! and it wurkz in my Mac Pro... easy install and quick... Weakness: none Thank you MWave, the price keeps moving in the right direction... i did a lot of research and found this drive to be the best value and easy install/expansion for my Mac Pro... i do a lot of video wurk and this was a very good investment for my system... i should be getting two more as soon as i finnish my current project... if you are reading this, just buy it so you can get it installed sooner than later... inJOY Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
By member:
edsager
- Jul 30, 2007
All good except not latest technologyStrengths: Very fast data transfer rate, easy setup, very good price, pretty quiet, good warranty, proven reliability Weakness: No perpendicular recording technology I purchased this product because of its capacity, seek times, reliability, its price and most importantly, data transfer rates. I also eliminated other models from consideration due to not being quite as quiet as this model. I wanted the perpendicular recording technology, but it is a bit more expensive and not as fast with the data transfer rate. On the other hand, the drive with perpendicular recording technology is reported by many to be nearly silent; however, the silence was not a sufficient enough reason for me to spend more and receive slower transfer rates. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
Reply by member: Octets
Aug 18, 2007 perpendicular recording technology is designed for drives 750G and larger... there is no advantage in using perpendicular recording. It is simply a way to "squeeze" more bits per physical space to allow for capacity like 750G
By member:
mirceani
- May 19, 2007
CaviarStrengths: Fast, quit, good price Weakness: none I bought this drife for my new Dlink DNS-323 network storage. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
reviewgist.com - Dec 19, 2009
ReviewGist for Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS Hard Drive
Performance is Excellent according to 11 Hard Drive experts. -- "A massive 16 MB cache combined with up to 300 MB/s transfer rate make these ultra-fast drives the perfect solution for the fully loaded PC with a fast processor."-tigerdirect.com -- "pure speed"-pcstats.com -- "pure performance seekers"-itp.net Read more to find expert opinions on more features like Technology, Noise, etc. Top
productwiki.com - Feb 17, 2009
Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB SATA-300 Internal 7200RPM 16MB Hard Drive - WD5000AAKS (Replaced WD5000KS)
The Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB (WD5000AAKS), now part of the blue series, is a hard disk drive for use within a closed computer system. Similar to the WD5000KS, the 5000AAKS features 1 less platter, with higher density platters for improvement in speed and heat output. Featuring 500GB of capacity, a 16MB cache and a 7200RPM spindle speed, the WD5000AAKS provides good balanced performance... Top
testseek.com - Oct 31, 2008
Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB SATA300 WD5000KS
Testseek.com has collected 5 expert reviews for Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB SATA300 WD5000KS and the average expert rating is 85 of 100. The average score reflects the expert community’s view on this product. Click below and use Testseek.com to see all ratings, product awards and conclusions. TopAdvertisement  
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Great hard drive
Strengths: Fast, whisper-quiet, reasonably low power usage, 3 year warranty on OEM drives.
Weakness: Still has moving parts, like every other drive.
Western Digital drives have become the de-facto standard for quiet computing, with both low power usage (hence low heat dissipation) and excellent acoustics. The WD5000AAKS is a 3x166GB platter-design, which should improve on the already-excellent performance of the 4-platter WD5000KS.
Western Digital's second generation SATA drives are fast and competitive in both price and features. Further, Western Digital still offers advance RMAs at no charge, unlike Seagate who at the time of writing charges for that service. Samsung drives are the only other ones I'd consider purchasing at the moment.
One thing to note is that Western Digital's website claims that they will only honor their 3-year warranty for OEM drives purchased from "authorized" vendors. That list can be found here: www.wdc.com/en/buy/whe.... It's not clear that they will refuse warranty for other drives, but caveat emptor.
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