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Western Digital (WD5000AAKS) 500 GB SATA Hard Drive
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Price Range $60 - $1911 Featured Merchants
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
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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. Western Digital WD5000AAKS *Caviar 500GB SATA Hard Drive – *Must be Beluga!
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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 < 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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