Western Digital Caviar Blue WDBAAX5000ENC-NRSN 500 GB 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - Retail - SATA/300 - 7200 rpm - 16 MB Buffer

Western Digital Caviar Blue WDBAAX5000ENC-NRSN 500 GB 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -...

4.5 13 $69.99 - $89.99
With SATA and PATA interfaces and cache sizes up to 32 MB, this series of drives offer a full range of performance features.
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User Review: This is a good drive for a standard desktop, or can be used for backups.
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Jr.com by PCPORTER, Nov 4, 2011
Good drive for desktops
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This is a good drive for a standard desktop, or can be used for backups.
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Jr.com by Dutch, Apr 17, 2012
I would highly recommend this product
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I used this product with my Night Owl DVR andworks great.
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Jr.com by Stan, Apr 8, 2012
Good Deal
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This Drive is great for adding backup to your home computer.
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Newegg.com , Nov 15, 2011
Pros: It's a WD5000AAKX Cons: None Other Thoughts: I recently bought two of these.
"...Pros: It's a WD5000AAKX Cons: None Other Thoughts: I recently bought two of these.
This is the WD5000AAKX but in a blue box.
If you look at the pictures and expand the one of the drive itself you'll see.... See more
 
Newegg.com , Jun 21, 2012
Pros: Western Digital is the most reliable HDD company out there.
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Pros: Western Digital is the most reliable HDD company out there.
Cons: You are going to occasionally get a bad.... See more
 
Newegg.com , Aug 26, 2012
Pros: -500 gigs is all i need, plenty of space -no problems -installing was simple -standard hdd Cons: !NOTE!
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Pros: -500 gigs is all i need, plenty of space-no problems-installing was simple-standard hdd Cons: !NOTE!
does not come sata cable... See more
 
Newegg.com , Mar 19, 2011
Pros: Good drive for the money - will work find for most applications other than RAID setup.
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Pros: Good drive for the money - will work find for most applications other than RAID setup.
SEE OTHER THOUGHTS!... See more
 
Newegg.com , Jun 26, 2012
Pros: Drive runs smooth and quite, a fantastic buy!
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Pros: Drive runs smooth and quite, a fantastic buy!
Cons: none... See more
 
Newegg.com , Jun 12, 2011
Pros: I replaced my hard drive with this Western Digital and am very happy with it so far.
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Pros: I replaced my hard drive with this Western Digital and am very happy with it so far.
The drive is nice and fast and extremely quiet.... See more
 
Newegg.com , Nov 24, 2012
Pros: 500 gb hdds last longer than 1tb hdd?
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Pros: 500 gb hdds last longer than 1tb hdd?Run coolerNo hangsFastQuiet Cons: none Other Thoughts: Since I have replaced many a new 1tb hdd 19 to be exact with these 500 gb in the past 3 years none have come back with problems so that gets me to wondering what up with the terabyte hdds
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Newegg.com , Nov 13, 2012
Pros: Don't know.
"...Pros: Don't know. It was DOA Cons: DOA Other Thoughts: The only good news is that I received it fast fast fast!
Manufacturer Response:We appreciate your feedback and apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced with the WD Blue drive, as this is not the typical experience with the product.
We are very sorry to hear about the drive arriving in a non-working condition.... See more
 
Newegg.com , Mar 3, 2012
Pros: Well, I called into tech and they gave me an RMA pretty quickly...
"...Worked long enough to format and start putting some files on it, then POOF It vanishes. Not to be seen in Bios or detectable by Win7 at all.
Other Thoughts: I have been through everything, tried every sata connector, updated all drivers, OS re-install...
My other WD HD works fine aon all the same connectors and it's over 3 years old.... See more
 
Newegg.com , Apr 26, 2012
Pros: it shipped fast from newegg Cons: it failed after about a week, and needed to be reformated.
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Pros: it shipped fast from newegg Cons: it failed after about a week, and needed to be reformated.
Thanks.... See more
 
Newegg.com , Dec 13, 2012
Pros: Good capacity, and WD is probably the most reliable hard drive maker left.
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Pros: Good capacity, and WD is probably the most reliable hard drive maker left.
Read/write speeds are fine.... See more
 
Newegg.com , Feb 22, 2011
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Pros: Looks like a good drive for a good price Cons: Was not advertised as a bare drive but arrived with no cables or software.
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