Western Digital Caviar Blue Price Review

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Western Digital Caviar Blue specifications:
Size: 500 GB


Western Digital Caviar Blue 500 GB SATA III 7200 RPM 16 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive – WD5000AAKX Price and Description:
Size: 500 GB


Western Digital Caviar Blue 500 GB SATA III 7200 RPM 16 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive – WD5000AAKX Reviews and Price:


21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of five stars Fast, calm, hard, February 20, 2011
By rsinj (NJ) See all my reviews () This review is from: Western Digital Caviar Blue 500 GB SATA III 7200 RPM 16 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive WD5000AAKX (Personal Computers) My use for these drives is to replace a couple of maturing five year old 80GB drives in Windows XP and XP Media Center machines. Those drives are running good, but, for the price, I had totally no reason not to upgrade them now.

I came across this drive center of last week and selled it new for $29 I scratched my head thinking “what’s the deal” and “what’s wrong with the drives”? Sure, though they were above $25, was still charging for the shipping so I took two to bring the per drive shipping down somewhat. The old 3Gb variant of this drive selled for over $40 so again, scratching my head about this. Maybe it was a pricing mistake? Whatever it was a great price.

The drives arrived yesterday, same standard OEM packaging all of my six other WD drives have come in over the past nine months. I used Clonezilla to clone the old drives on to the new, it went smoothly without any issues. I am storing the old drives just in case these new ones have any issues I will not have to rebuild the system drives from scratch.

I know that the motherboards in my machines can not make use of the 6Gb throughput, but, these drives are certainly faster than what they are replacing older WD drives which point to they’re 7200RPM and 3Gb. Specifications on the older drives point to performance should not be all that different, but it’s, and for the better. I will not question it.

The drive indicates you may be able to jumper pins five and six to bound it to 3Gb, but I did not understand the benefit of doing it, so I left it unjumpered and it is working well.

To summarize these drives are fast, calm, and so far are performing excellently. I am happy with them far.




22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of five stars WD Blue 1T Drive So far so good., April 27, 2011
By Fred Wampler (Kingsport, TN USA) See all my reviews
(REAL NAME) () This review is from: Western Digital one TB Caviar Blue SATA III 7200 RPM 32 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive WD10EALX (Personal Computers) I bought the Western Digital one Tb Sata 6.0 Gb s 32 MB Cache 3.5 Inch interior Bare oem Drive WD10EALX from Midwest Memory Outlet through Amazon. The drive has been received inside three or four days and has been packaged very well. My original Seagate drive from my HP m9550F failed and was replace by the WD. The Seagate was the drive that HP kept shipping after a drive bios error was long recognized about. Info from the internet showed that lots of people lost valuable data because HP just kept shipping a drive with a recognized problem. Anyhow, I did get a bios update for the Seagate before it failed but it ended up failing anyhow.

The WD10EALX drive is pretty deafening. I still have the drive located outside the case so that may give to the sound level. The sound looks to be from the head motion. The platter turn is silent. For the price this is one drive that’s hard to defeat and I’m well happy with it. My bios can not take benefit of the six Gb/s move rate but the drive is plenty fast just the same. I loaded around 600 gig of data onto it. After around three weeks I will assume it’ll not fail and put the case back together. If it fails I will update this review. I noticed on NewEgg that some failures beed stated. Not the long term ones but the more probably out of the box ones. Here is keeping my fingers crossed. (Boot drive failures are a pain).

UPDATE:
OK. I put the case back together. The drive isn’t silent but it’s pretty calm. I can hear just faint clicks as it does its thing. Nice. No problems with the drive at all. Suggested.




Nine of nine people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of five stars OK, but nothing special, unless you compare to Seagate, then it is AWESOME, August 20, 2011
By John (Michigan USA) See all my reviews This review is from: Western Digital one TB Caviar Blue SATA III 7200 RPM 32 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive WD10EALX (Personal Computers) it is a bare hard drive that arrived quickly from and packaged. I replaced a 500GB WD Caviar Blue WD5000AAKS with this WD Caviar Blue WD10EALX as the main drive in an HP i7 desktop. This drive and the old WD drive show just same CrystalMark results, but it does seem to load programs and boot faster (I restored a picture of the old installation to the new disk, so everything else is the same). CrystalMark shows that it outperforms the Green series drives I own by 20 30.

I looked at the WD Caviar Black drives, and saw many reviews that said they’re deafening, so I went for this one, which is advertised as quieter and cooler than the Black series and insignificantly slower than a Black. I do not have a Black series to compare to, but the WD10EALX is certainly louder than the 500GB Blue variant, and also louder than 1TB and 2TB WD Green drives that I own. It is not deafening, but it’s louder than those other drives. It has the normal disk seek sound which isn’t annoying, but present in the same way the computer fan sound is present. If you’re going for the final in calm, then this is not it.

If you want to compare this to Seagate, then it’s a 300 star product. I used to be a Seagate buyer as their price/performance percentage seemed great. I got hosed by Seagate with a 1.5TB drive, the same one that everyone else got hosed on. They offered to recover my data for $900. I told them to stuff it and I only purchase WD and other brands now. My plan is to use this drive a year or so and replace with SSD, demoting this one to backup. I’d most likely attempt another brand at this price point if I had to purchase another 7200RPM 1TB drive, but I’m not disappointed in my buy, just underwhelmed by the performance. It’s advertised as being calm and fast, but it isn’t quieter nor faster than the disk it replaces, hence the comparatively low ranking and minor disappointment.




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