Western Digital® Caviar® Blue™ 500GB SATA Desktop Hard Drive

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500GB Storage Capacity
3.5" Hard Drive for desktop PC and Mac® computers
Serial ATA (SATA) 3Gb/s interface
NoTouch™ ramp load technology; recording head never touches the disc media ensuring less wear and better drive protection
Ultra cool and quiet operation
IntelliSeek™ calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise and vibration
ShockGuard™ protects drive against damage from bumps and vibrations while it is running
Data Lifeguard automatically finds, isolates, and repairs problems that may develop over the life of a hard drive
7200 RPM
16MB Cache
3 year limited warranty
Cable NOT included

Hard Drive Capacity	500GB
Compatibility	16
Interface	SATA
Model	WDBAAX5000ENC
Special Features	Rock solid performance and ultra-cool and quiet operation.
Weight	1.52 lbs.
Warranty	3 year warranty
Cache	16MB
Form Factor Size	3.5"
RPM	7200
Form Factor Type	Desktop
Product Dims.	1.028"H x 4.0"W x 5.787"D

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Western Digital® Caviar® Blue™ 500GB Internal SATA Desktop Hard Drive (7200 RPM)

4.3

(based on 253 reviews)

92%

of respondents would recommend this to a friend.

Pros

Easy to install (214)
Quiet (195)
Fast (181)
Reliable (145)
Highly compatible (127)

Cons

Difficult to install (10)
Unreliable (9)
Runs hot (5)

Best Uses

High-end multimedia (75)
Gaming (40)
Multimedia (32)
Upgrade (31)
Replacement (19)

- Reviewer Profile:
- Heavy duty user (110), Frequent user (83), Quality oriented (36), Budget shopper (14), Infrequent user (8)
- Primary use:
- Personal (212), Business (36)

Most Liked Positive Review

Incredible fast and Silent....

Honestly, I have bought 3 500gb Sata II drives. Seagate, Maxtor and Western Digital. Eventhough Seagate and Maxtor has longer warrantee; however, they made Loud Noise when I transfer or install programs. Western Digital is the best of all three. I never use WD; however, after this baby. Bye bye to seagate and maxtor. Thank you so much western, u made my life less noisy

Most Liked Negative Review

Terrible Choice for a Hard Drive

This WD 500G hard drive is the worst choice you could make. After shopping for large slave (secondary) hard drive I chose this WD because of their reputation but boy was I WRONG. ...Read complete review

This WD 500G hard drive is the worst choice you could make. After shopping for large slave (secondary) hard drive I chose this WD because of their reputation but boy was I WRONG. The first one I received was defective from the start so WD replaced it using their RMA program. A pain when I needed one at the time I bought the first one. After one year and 3 months the replacement one crashed in the middle of doing a newsletter causing me to miss a deadline. The drive started intermittently locking up and then without time to back up any files, it vanished from computer recognition. Running the diagnostic software showed that the hard drive had 15 attritubes that are below tolerance. [...]I'll never buy any WD product and would advise that you didn't either! Their products are JUNK.

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7/23/2008

(11 of 35 customers found this review helpful)

1.0

Not Vista OS Compatible

By me

from San Luis Obispo, CA

About Me Quality Oriented

Pros

Easy To Install
High Capacity
Quiet

Cons

Best Uses

Comments about Western Digital® Caviar® Blue™ 500GB Internal SATA Desktop Hard Drive (7200 RPM):

The manufacturer's packaging does not disclose the fact the buyer can not install Vista operating system on the HD. Once you are home, unpackaged the product and read the enclosures (or try to install Vista) you then learn it isn't compatible with Windows Vista OS.

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10/18/2008

(8 of 10 customers found this review helpful)

1.0

Failed very early in it's life.

By Jimmy can jump

from Framingham, MA

About Me Frequent User

Pros

Easy To Install
Fast
Quiet

Cons

Runs Hot
Unreliable

Best Uses

Comments about Western Digital® Caviar® Blue™ 500GB Internal SATA Desktop Hard Drive (7200 RPM):

Install was a snap, and all was good until drive developed bad sectors and became unusable after only 9 months.

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5/17/2008

(8 of 14 customers found this review helpful)

1.0

Terrible Choice for a Hard Drive

By Old Car Dude

from Winston Salem, NC

About Me Quality Oriented

Pros

High Capacity

Cons

Unreliable

Best Uses

Comments about Western Digital® Caviar® Blue™ 500GB Internal SATA Desktop Hard Drive (7200 RPM):

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2/15/2008

(8 of 16 customers found this review helpful)

1.0

DEAD HARD DRIVE

By PC WHIZ

from NEWELL, PA

About Me Quality Oriented

Pros

Easy To Install
Fast
High Capacity
Powerful
Quiet

Cons

Unreliable

Best Uses

Backup Storage Drive

Comments about Western Digital® Caviar® Blue™ 500GB Internal SATA Desktop Hard Drive (7200 RPM):

I had recieved this as a gift and installed it into my PC as a backup hard drive for my important files and pictures. The drive was quite fast and quiet. But fast and quiet DOESN'T make up for quality. I had a power flash at the house and the computer was on a power surge protector. When I restarted the computer back up, the hard drive started checking for errors. After 2 1/2 days, the computer remained stuck on 4% complete. Tried to restart the PC again and the hard drive was fried. I never had this happen with Maxtor or any other hard drives. I will NEVER buy WD Hard Drives AGAIN!!!!

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9/22/2008

(5 of 6 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

Disk

By Roger

from Fort Wayne

About Me Heavy Duty User

Pros

Easy To Install
Highly Compatible
Quiet
Reliable

Cons

Best Uses

High-End Multimedia

Comments about Western Digital® Caviar® Blue™ 500GB Internal SATA Desktop Hard Drive (7200 RPM):

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6/29/2008

(5 of 5 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

Great Drive, Great Value

By Farmer Al

from Burlington, NJ

About Me Quality Oriented

Pros

Easy To Install
Fast
High Capacity
Powerful
Quiet
Reliable

Cons

None

Best Uses

Gaming
Multimedia
Upgrade

Comments about Western Digital® Caviar® Blue™ 500GB Internal SATA Desktop Hard Drive (7200 RPM):

Very easy to install, quiet and fast. You can't do any better than that, at least as far as hard drives go. In my 15+ years of upgrading computers, Western Digital hard drives have always been reliable and never had one go bad. So far, this drive has been no exception. Great performing drive. Highly recommended.