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Western Digital 500GB 3.5", SATA, 16MB Cache Bulk/OEM Hard Drive WD5000AAKS

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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
(4 out of 5)

Just the drive, ma'am...

Mar 28, 2008 - By Brad Blumenthal (Lincolnwood, IL United States)

As M. Mola points out, this is an OEM package. It not only has no instructions or software, it also does not have a connector cable, an IDE four-pin to SATA power adapter, or mounting screws.

If you want to replace a failed drive and don't want the clutter that usually comes with a drive, this is for you.

If you want to add an additional drive to an existing system, you'll need to get the cabling and mounting hardware elsewhere.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
(1 out of 5)

Bought two, both Died quick

Apr 22, 2008 - By A. Smith (USA)

I bought this drive from NewEgg because it was marketed as quiet. It's quiet compared to standard drives but compared to the Samsung SP2004C drives I own this is very noisy.

I bought two of these within the past year. They didn't even last a year. The first one started out Ok so I bought a second one, it was a good price for 500GB. Well, there is a reason they're cheap, because they are bad drives.

I've been using computers since I was 12. I'm 28 now, and these are the first drives that have died on me in all that time, (five systems and upgrades later). I always treat the drives very well, avoiding hard resets and shut downs and such. I'm careful, yet despite that both drives I bought failed.

The second one was never quite right, always a delay when accessing data. That one died first. The first one, which I thought was good, died a couple months later. I'm really disgusted with Western Digital. I used to buy only WD because I was satisfied with their drives, especially the 80 GB Caviar.

After this I will be switching to Samsung. The Samsung drives I have bought are quiet and reliable with no quirks. In addition, after the drive died I found my computer is responding better and is faster. Seems the drives were causing some type of lag in my system.

Western Digital seems to be going downhill fast. Avoid these drives and go with Samsung or Seagate with the five year warranty.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
(4 out of 5)

Internal Hard Drive

Oct 12, 2007 - By M. Mola (New York)

Have had no problems. Easy to install. Comes OEM with no instructions or software.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
(5 out of 5)

No problems

Nov 4, 2007 - By Kleo

I bought this to replace the hard drive that failed in my imac. What can I say: no problems setting up, more space, pretty cheap - basically no complaints!

7 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
(3 out of 5)

WD tends to have problems with disk surface

Apr 18, 2008 - By Timbus (Bloomington, IN USA)

Bought a WD5000AAJS and a WD5000AAKS at almost the same time. Within 3 weeks, the AAKS started to have bad sectors after disk scan, and since it was still under warranty, I had it replaced. Now its been 3 months since then, and another disk scan found more bad sectors on both the AAJS and AAKS. Never had such problems with my older boxes (maxter hdds in them).