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Western Digital RE2 WD5000YS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive -Bare Drive

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Western Digital RE2 500GB 3.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive -Bare Drive
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Western Digital RE2 500GB 3.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive -Bare Drive Western Digital RE2 500GB 3.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive -Bare Drive
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  • Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (parts): 5 years
  • Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (labor): 5 years

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Total Reviews: 162

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white Reviewed By: PoeticIntensity on 9/7/2009
Rating + 2
Tech Level Tech Level: high - Ownership: more than 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: worked while it worked...
Cons: Bought two of these drives, one for my server, one for my backup. Both died within the same week. Not enough time to have a new drive shipped and backed-up. Lost both server information and backup information. Not good. Both drives died within the warranty period.
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50/50

white Reviewed By: Mike on 8/8/2009
Rating + 3
Tech Level Tech Level: high - Ownership: more than 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: fast, quiet
Cons: not so stable
I bought two of these for my server and one had consistent problems. It turned out the bulk of them were caused by bad firmware and updating got me an extra few months of life.
The flaky one eventually died and Western Digital sent me an RE3... that ones been chugging along with no problems ever since.
Other Thoughts: Keep your firmware up-to-date and if you have any issues Western Digital's support is a dream.
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DOA

white Reviewed By: on 7/28/2009
Rating + 5
Tech Level Tech Level: somewhat low - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: I was definitely looking forward to getting this harddrive. A Western Digital harddrive with 500 gb at 7200 rpm for 50 bucks? I thought it was a steal
Cons: DOA. Honestly nowdays I don't think it's anyone's fault except for UPS. You can find something on their site about how they may drop packages up to 9 feet during loading/transports. I can't imagine anything like that would be good for a harddrive.
Other Thoughts: 5 stars for the deal I was going to get, but its too bad such a nice drive couldn't come in working order. When I installed it into the computer the harddrive wasn't able responding and it made a consistent and loud clicking sound every 1-2 seconds. Its never a good thing to hear on the first boot.
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Model
Brand Western Digital
Series RE2
Model WD5000YS
Packaging Bare Drive
Performance
Interface SATA 3.0Gb/s
Capacity 500GB
RPM 7200 RPM
Cache 16MB
Average Seek Time 8.9ms
Average Latency 4.2ms
Physical Spec
Form Factor 3.5"
Features
Features Superior reliability - Designed and manufactured to server-class standards to provide best-in-class enterprise reliability in high duty cycle environments. With 1.2 million hours MTBF at 100% duty cycle, these drives have the highest available reliability rating on a high-capacity drive.
Low power - Active Power Save delivers best-in-class seek mode power consumption through an advanced WD firmware which conserves power in active seek modes without degrading performance.
RAID-specific, time-limited error recovery (TLER) - A feature pioneered by WD, significantly reduces drive fallout caused by the extended hard drive error-recovery processes common to desktop drives.
Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF) - Provides best-in-class vibration tolerance by optimizing operation and performance when the drives are used in vibration-prone, multidrive systems such as rack-mounted servers or network storage.
Manufacturer Warranty
Parts 5 years limited
Labor 5 years limited
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