Western Digital Caviar RE WD1600YS 160GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive -Bare Drive

Pros: Worked great for a while.

Cons: Died after 9 moths or so.

Other Thoughts: cant find a replacement PCB to recover data. clicking during boot.

Pros: Western digital works fine

Cons: none

Pros: Working great connected to a Biostar TF720 A2+ motherboard.

Cons: None.

Pros: The drives worked...

Cons: Miserable speed.

I purchased two of these for a RAID 0 setup. After hooking them up, I installed my OS, drivers, and necessary applications for benchmarking.

These drives, while together in RAID 0, got an average read speed of ~100MB/s. Most other drives in its price range, perform at about 200MB/s in RAID 0. I even assumed my motherboard's RAID was bad and purchased another PCI-E x1 RAID card. After installing the new card and setting up my system again, the scores had actually lowered.

My next thought was that perhaps one of the drives was performing poorly and slowing down the RAID. So, I disabled the raid and reinstalled both as single drives. I tested the performance of each drive on their own to which they each scored pathetically low scores of about 52MB/s read. That's slower than my WD 320GB SATA1 drive. I'm now in the process of RMAing these to get something good.

If it gives you a better idea, my 1.5TB single Seagate performed better than these two drives in RAID

Other Thoughts: I'm giving two stars simply because they did work. Just very poorly.

I've been a fan of Western Digital for a long time, but this has completely warped my perspective.

Pros: 16MB cache, and 160GB storage. Perfect for my computer. Had the drive since Sept 2007 still running at 99%. Performance per dollar is definately worth the buy. Bought my brother the model under. Western Digital nailed it with this one. Good mid range drive.

Cons: The cons are very few but nothing is perfect. Drivers were a little trouble. 16MB cache was being detected as 8MB. [A quick call to Western Digital and every thing was fixed]

Other Thoughts: I also use the seagate "equivalent" which is priced about $5 more. Only 8MB cache however, but speed seems to match that of the WD. If you want ultimate performance, go Western Digital Velociraptor.

Pros: Price was okay.

Cons: I bought two of these disks. One of the two had so many bad sectors that the Western Digital scan software could not repair it and terminated the scan. However, I was eventually able to repair the disk by writing zeroes to the entire drive (full erase) using another WD utility.

Other Thoughts: I still kept the disk since I was able to map out the bad sectors and it wasn't worth going through newegg's RMA process to exchange it.

Pros: I'm running 2 of these in a RAID 0 on an Intel 975BX2 MB. Install went as it should. System boots quickly, even with Vista 64. No problems in 18 months of operation. Plenty of room on the drive for the OS and my apps. My data I keep on the RAID5.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: This is an OEM drive. Like all other OEM HDDs, CDRs, DVDs, etc., OEM means no manuals, no software, no cables, no mounting screws. If you buy OEM, live with it. If you want all the frills, buy retail.

Pros: one out of three still alive

Cons: first died during initial os install, second lasted about a month.

Other Thoughts: 33% reliability is enterprise class?

Pros: A lot of GB's for the Money and newwegg fast shipping is the way to go.

Cons: It worked great for 29 days then BSOD until it stopped working.

Other Thoughts: It's first Western Digital Hard Drive That Died on me in 29 Days and I have installed over 100 WD HD's

Pros: Have 2 of these in a raid 0 and i havent had any trouble at all.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: since it is oem there is no sata cables.