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- Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (parts): 3 years
- Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (labor): 3 years
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- Return for refund within: 30 days
- Return for replacement within: 30 days
- Restocking Fee: Yes
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RockSolid performance14months and going
- Pros: Bought this model drive November 07. Fired right up formatted with no problem and has been a solid silent performer for 14months and growing. I have 4 other PCs with smaller WD 60g and WD 120g versions that are at least 8 years old and to this day run flawlessly. WD 4 Life. My experiences have been nothing but positive with WD. Currently bought a WD1001FALS 1tb drive that is loud by comparison but how can I resist for $119.00 after such a great experience with this last drive. This drive is worth every penny (especially since it was 149.00 when I bought mine). Those with bad experiences most likely received a drive that was damaged in transit or some other fluke because this drive is a Solid silent dependable performer. You WILL NOT BE SORRY.
- Cons: None
- Other Thoughts: Vista Business SP1 (32bit)
Q6600 2.4 @ 3.44ghz (430X8)
P35-DS3P v2.0 @1740fsb
4gb OCZ DDR2 1066
GTX285 SC 1gb
WD 16mb 750g/WD Black 32mb 1TB
CoolerMaster Pro 750
Antec900/Tuniq120
66% failure rate
- Pros: Pros are purely theoretical since I never saw the drives really do anything.
- Cons: 2 of 3 drives died within a week. Reliability seems to be terrible, but hard to say if the problem is limited to these drives since so many get bad reviews these days for this reason
- Other Thoughts: Hard drive quality control seems to be nonexistent these days. Apparently to save costs, manufacturers expect end users to do all the final production testing - so make sure you do. Install them, close case, format and run 24/7 for several days before trusting them with your data! I installed a 3 disk raid5 and lost everything on the raid within a week of installation of these drives. First drive failed with seek error (click of death) on first day, a week later second drive became inaccessible (no clicks, just dead). Sent back, hoping I can have more faith in another model drive.
Bought two, one died.
- Pros: Quiet, speedy, inexpensive for the size.
- Cons: Bought 2 at same time. one worked great, other died after about a month. Second drive was pretty inconsistant on when it wanted to work. Refused to be formatted, wouldn't be recognized by OS (Bios saw it correctly), caused Raid to lock up on raid detection, a whole host of problems. Unfortunately, it was outside of the Newegg replacement period, so it had to be sent back to WD. Thankfully WD has a great warranty. Returned with zero hassle, and relatively quick turnaround time to get a new product shipped out (5 days).
- Other Thoughts: Would be giving this product 5 stars if it hadn't been for the dead drive. If WD's warranty service hadn't been as stellar as it was, would have given three stars.
| Model |
| Brand |
Western Digital |
| Series |
Caviar SE16 |
| Model |
WD7500AAKS |
| Packaging |
Bare Drive |
| Performance |
| Interface |
SATA 3.0Gb/s |
| Capacity |
750GB |
| RPM |
7200 RPM |
| Cache |
16MB |
| Average Seek Time |
8.9ms |
| Average Write Time |
10.9ms |
| Average Latency |
4.2ms |
| Physical Spec |
| Form Factor |
3.5" |
| Features |
| Features |
Top performance for Windows Vista
Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR) - The latest generation of WD Caviar SE16 drives employs PMR technology to achieve even greater areal density.
IntelliSeek - Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise and vibration.
SecurePark - Parks the recording heads off the disk surface during spin up, spin down and when the drive is off. This ensures the recording head never touches the disk surface resulting in improved long term reliability due to less head wear, and improved non- operational shock tolerance.
StableTrac - The motor shaft is secured at both ends to reduce system-induced vibration and stabilize platters for accurate tracking, during read and write operations. |
| Manufacturer Warranty |
| Parts |
3 years limited |
| Labor |
3 years limited |
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Reviewed By: Slam on 3/26/2009
Tech Level: high - Ownership: more than 1 year
