Western Digital WD2500JB Caviar SE EIDE 250 GB Hard Drive
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(3 out of 5)WARNING - not what the description says!
The description for this product says "Full kit includes drive cables, installation and management software, and illustrated instructions". All I got was an OEM drive... just the drive with no cable, rails, software, instructions or anything else. I don't know if an underpaid stockboy just screwed up or what, but everyone should be aware.
I'm keeping it because I just wanted the bare drive anyway, but I wanted to warn others who might be counting on the additional items.
(5 out of 5)Gonzalez Give a Moronic Review
There is nothing unusual about this drive with respect to installation. It's just like any other 40 pin IDC. The above reviewer must be a dope.
(1 out of 5)Difficult install and horrible service left a sour taste in my mouth
I have been working with computers for over 20 years on the home PC side. I have used Western Digital exclusively since buying my last 170 meg Hayes in 1993. I have always been happy with Western Digital's ease of installation and great technical support. There was no question when I purchased this drive as to which manufacturer I would support. Unfortunately, all the confidence that I had built up over the years was lost in one product.
I will tell you that as a primary drive, this hard drive is very difficult to install. The directions that the manufacturer provides are great for installing it as a secondary drive, but they provide no information for installing it as a primary, which is important as there is a 130 meg barrier in Windows XP. Furthermore, when I was finally able to set aside time to contact tech support, they said that my drive, which I purchased 4 days ago, was three days out of its one year warranty! I had to photoshop together a receipt from screen caps (because I purchased the hard drive online.) to prove the date of purchase. They now require three days to verify the receipt. Unfortunately, because of this incident, I will never buy another Western Digital harddrive and would discourage you from doing the same.
(5 out of 5)using it as an external hard drive
I just bought these and also an external enclosure to use it as an external hard drive, so far i have tried it on linux (ubuntu), osX, and windows XP and it seems to work just fine
(4 out of 5)No complaints with this drive
I bought this drive to replace a smaller drive that was starting to make scary noises. The formatting, partitioning, and disk copy software worked as advertised, but the system didn't initially recognize it when I configured it as the master drive. I had to fiddle with the jumpers, but once I got that figured out it was fine.