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Western Digital (WD5000AAKS) 500 GB SATA Hard Drive
Western Digital (WD5000AAKS) 500 GB SATA Hard Drive

Consumer Rating


Price Range
$60 - $1911

Product Description

WD Caviar SE16 7200 RPM next-generation SATA hard drives feature up to 500 GB of storage and a 16 MB cache for lightning-fast performance.



500GB is the Sweet Spot
Rating


Written By
nad_masters

Date Written
Dec 29 2007

Summary

With 500GB hard drives still the sweet spot for the best price/size ratio, it's been a very long time since hard drive prices had any dramatic changes in price. So with that, I went ahead and did a quick search around and decided to purchase from a...

Strength

Pretty quick, cheap price

Weakness

Can get a bit hot, failed once (the one inside my external drive)

Bottom Line

500GB for the right price, and good performance to boot.

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Western Digital WD5000AAKS *Caviar 500GB SATA Hard Drive – *Must be Beluga!
Rating


Written By
mongomad1

Date Written
May 08 2008

Summary

Once upon a time, a man nicknamed Mongo had an 80GB SATA internal hard drive that came stock in his trusty, antique <
b>Dell
Dimension 4700 PC Desktop . Not so quickly, it became full to the point where virtual...

Strength

Inexpensive way to get a fast, reliable hard drive to supplement or be primary storage.

Weakness

You need to be or become SATA or SATA II compatible.

Bottom Line

This is a keeper and a very rare 5 star from me. It answered the issues I had at a relatively nominal cost.

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