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Western Digital WD7501AALS Internal Hard Drives
Customer Reviews for Western Digital Caviar Black WD7501AALS 750GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive -Bare Drive
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stiegz
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/9/2010 8:25:07 AM

Rating + 5 Fast and Quiet


Pros: Works as described!

Cons: None.

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Wheel-Z
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/8/2010 1:21:19 PM

Rating + 5 Great HDD


Pros: Cache size (32MB) improves the performance of this drive dramatically. Upgraded from my cheap-o Seagate 500 GB HDD (16MB) with this bad boy. I bought another so I could RAID them.

Cons: In another post a fix was found for supporting Time-Limited Error Recovery (TLER): To find it just Google the file name "wdtler.zip" that Western Digital made themselves. It's also pretty easy to find instructions for using it by Googling, too. Just be sure to plug in ONLY the drives that you want to have TLER turned on/off for, since it modifies all connected drives when you run it." This way you can turn it on to support RAID arrays. ;)

Western Digital is nuts for not supporting RAID off the bat, but the simple fix above is worth the time and the money you save!

Other Thoughts: For read/write speed increase, at an affordable price, I just enabled TLER myself. I suggest you do the same.

If you're attempting to setup RAID anyway, your tech level should be high enough to accomplish turning on TLER.

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h2m
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/8/2010 10:13:30 AM

Rating + 1 Failure after just 6 months


Pros: Quiet drive, quick shipping and great price. 5 year warranty.

Cons: I bought a pair of these and configured them as a mirrored RAID set... Now one drive has failed and I'm nervous about the other one going out. I had been buying Seagate Barracudas until they dropped their warranty from 5 to 3 years, but now I am regretting that decision. The last Barracuda I bought is still going strong after 2+ years in the same box.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/6/2010 9:30:53 PM

Rating + 5 Awesome


Pros: Got a great deal for this HD on shell shocker deal.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: Just note that the 750gb has almost all (if not all) the features of the 1 and 2TB Hard Drives. The 640gb has less features, (from when I remember reading). Though, look this up, because things may have changed.

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Macko
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/6/2010 12:32:26 PM

Rating + 5 Good price, good quality, good warranty


Pros: It worked flawlessly from the first moment. Fast and reliable. Good price and plenty of room.

Cons: Windows 7 shows the capacity as 698GB, not 750GB

Other Thoughts: It's OEM, it doesn't come with cables, but these are usually included with motherboards. Haven't tried RAID yet, because I only have one of these puppies.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/5/2010 5:40:17 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: Absolutely magnificent piece of hardware. Bigger than most people will ever need at home, and plenty cheap enough.
Fast transfer speeds, especially compared to my WD 160GB SATA.

Cons: None.

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radium-88
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/5/2010 2:58:32 PM

Rating + 5 NewEGG


Pros: Spacious, more than what she needs, great quality, standard speed.

Cons: None.

Other Thoughts: NewEGG is and has ALWAYS been great to me and everyone I recommend them to. Shipping is always fantastic and delivered as estimated and expected. Thank You to the people from NewEGG!

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Old Geezer
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
2/5/2010 1:19:24 PM

Rating + 5 Happy User


Pros: 4 years of HARD use, without so much as a hiccup.

Cons: It finally died

Other Thoughts: WD didn't even bat an eye. I RMAd the drive and they sent a brand new one to replace it! THAT is customer service!

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cdripper2
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/4/2010 8:10:47 PM

Rating + 4 All good so far


Pros: Arrived a day early. Working well at the moment. Have yet to run tests to check for bad sectors, etc..

Cons: Not an affordable SSD.....
Otherwise, nothing so far for WD, but seriously guys and gals at newegg, there has to be a better way to package these bare harddrives than wrapping them in one layer of bubble wrap, putting that in a box, then using paper to surround that in another bigger box. My suggestion, Why not use those awesome biodegradable packing peanuts that Crutch field uses?

Other Thoughts: I'm assuming if this drive up and dies anytime soon, it was either to rough handling by UPS and/or insufficient packing. only 4/5 eggs because of questionable packing materials

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Carfanatic
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/4/2010 1:27:37 PM

Rating + 5 Good Drive


Pros: Always use WD always had good results. This one is no exception runs fast and quiet I never even hear it. Scores a 5.5 in Windows 7 if anyone wondered.

Cons: None

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jduck
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
2/4/2010 1:11:38 PM

Rating + 5 Fast and Works


Pros: Fast drive and does great in my system. Not a single problem so far. I got it on special for a great price.

Cons: The 640GB model only has one platter. This one has two. If I wouldn't have gotten such a great price on it, I would have chosen the 640GB model.

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Wrathlon
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/4/2010 5:06:46 AM

Rating + 5 Nice Drive time will tell


Pros: Price , build quality seems very nice
32 mb cache , 7200 rpm , acoustics are well tolerable as its a performance drive really not too bad . (but then again Ive always used SCSI or Raptors )

Cons: Hear me out before you bug out
Can not use these drives in Raid , from what i have read or researched the physical difference is null between this and their RE drives (correct me if i am wrong) These drives as mentioned prior are of outstanding quality in appearance and specs and look like enterprise quality drives to me . We all know whats stops them from being used in Raid and there use to be a work around which no longer exist .

Other Thoughts: Using this drive in my wifes new build hoping it will last a while . Last build i replaced or upgraded and all previous always had ultra 160 then ultra 320 scsi 15 k drives to ensure longevity which they did provide with out a failure in the last ten years. She runs her computer 24/7(yup yup could not resist setting it up for folding shh dont say nothing :P) and i back it up daily so it will be interesting to see how this drive holds up . Did not have the coin to go with SAS controller , drive ect.... Hope i dont regret it :) all you guys out there that build your wifes rigs know exactly what IM talking about . They dont care about nothing just make it work perfect ! Its used for a lot of her work and is not just a leisure machine ........

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the1320god
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/3/2010 9:35:43 PM

Rating + 5 i love wd


Pros: came fat32, so works on my ps3 out the box. i use this thing so much. still going.

Cons: none

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^_^
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/3/2010 7:23:30 PM

Rating + 5 I love it


Pros: Nothing complain about it

Cons: Nice HDD

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/3/2010 5:17:12 AM

Rating + 5


Pros: Decent amount of storage. Run's cool enough! Boots decent.

Cons: Can hear it clicking unlike sea gate. Ya but what eva its a great hard drive. Also my seagate doesn't work either so clicked away wd.

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Dem0
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/2/2010 11:56:03 PM

Rating + 5 Great quiet drive, long lasting, great warranty


Pros: Drive performs as a great modern desktop drive using magnetic storage. Works great in RAID0 stripes. I currently am using the drives for a total of 2.xx terabytes of space and it is zippy. The drive is quiet, doesn't consume a ton of power and doesn't run very hot.

Cons: None yet, but Western Digital has a great RMA program where they will ship a drive to you it is defective in any way and you put your broken drive in the box and send it back postage paid. The only caveat is they need a credit card on file in case you don't back your drive (because then you are purchasing that new one)

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EvaNeT
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/2/2010 3:00:00 PM

Rating + 5 Works Well


Pros: It works. It's fast. Fast Transfer Rate.

Cons: None.

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Tim in PA
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/2/2010 6:51:46 AM

Rating + 5 Outstanding


Pros: Fast
Relatively cool

Cons: A bit on the noisy side compared to my Velociraptor

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/1/2010 10:20:53 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: Fast, Reliable, and Western Digital.

Cons: Not really a con but I wish they would post the "true" capacity based on 1024 MB per GB rather then 1000.

Other Thoughts: Western Digital is the best for hard drives.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/1/2010 6:07:54 PM

Rating + 5 Western Digital does it again


Pros: Western Digital is the only brand of hard drive manufacturer I trust with my data. I have this drive partitioned into 3. 100gb for XP x64 Pro, 100gb for Win7 x64 Ult, and 498gb for data. I also have 2 external WD drives (cavalry) one is 500 gb and the other is a tb.

This drive idles at ~33/91

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: I'm glad I went the route I went. At first I wanted to buy separate drives for each OS and use this drive for data. Partitioning everything makes it much easier imo. I just use XP for older software and PS2 game modifications so I don't really need much room but with a 100gb overhead I can always scale back down later.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/31/2010 5:49:57 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: Works good so far. Faster than my IDE drive.

Cons: ?

Other Thoughts: Planning on purchasing another to RAID

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Volkx86
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/30/2010 12:54:58 PM

Rating + 5 Sweet drive


Pros: I am thoroughly impressed with this drive. It is both fast and quiet and has more room than I will possibly need. Boots Windows 7 on an i5 machine in about 30 seconds. The price was right too.

Cons: The drive is the limiting factor in the performance of my machine. Windows 7 gives me a performance rating of 5.9 using this drive. The only way to improve the score is investing in a SSD or higher rpm drive and I don't really think of the limitation as a con as the machine still runs incredibly fast.

Other Thoughts: I bought two of these to set my machine up to dual boot and both work flawlessly. Newegg did a good job with shipping, wrapping each in a large amount of bubble wrap.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/29/2010 10:37:09 AM

Rating + 1 lasted about 3hrs


Pros: None! Didn't live long enough to tell.

Cons: Had to RMA this after only about three hours of use. I've installed lots of drives, but never had one fail this quickly. Reading the reviews it seems that WD has its fare share of early failures.

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grief
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/29/2010 6:54:32 AM

Rating + 5 WD hard drives haven't failed me yet


Pros: It still works after a month, something I can't say for a lot of drives I got DOA or that died quickly

Cons: It's a hard drive, it'll die someday.

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geo
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/29/2010 6:32:19 AM

Rating + 5 very excellent


Pros: worked perfectly and seemed to add quite a bit of zip to my aging HP350. more so than the new video card.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: i over thought the whole replacing the old IDE drive with a new SATA --i cloned the hard drive and it was all plug and play from there.

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N/A
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/28/2010 2:10:45 PM

Rating + 4 Not as impressed as I thought I would be


Pros: It's a Western Digital drive... and that sort of says it all.

Cons: Compared to the drives that it replaced, the WD seems to be noisier. It also has a habit of pausing occasionally, even when it is doing something as simple as opening up a directory. I've found that backing out, and re-opening the folder will solve this, but it is still something my old drives never did.

Other Thoughts: I purchased the drive back at the end of October, and decided to see how well it did before I wrote this review.. So far it has been a solid performer, and I am mostly happy with it, but there are just those little things that keep me from being completely happy.

Knowing what I know, I would still purchase the drive for myself, and probably recommend it to others.

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danurve
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/28/2010 10:39:56 AM

Rating + 5 Excellent drive


Pros: Quiet 7200 rpm drive. 32mb cache. Price per meg. Excellent performance ratings (HDTune).

Cons: 0

Other Thoughts: Why wait for the 640?
The 750 Caviar Black is an excellent choice for system builds. Was waiting for the 640 for the longest time being out of stock. Installed and run 7 x64 on this drive.

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Mr. Cage
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/27/2010 11:09:18 AM

Rating + 4 Good HDD so far...


Pros: Price for this amount of storage is a deal.
Not sure what else to say --- it does what it's supposed to do and runs quiet.

Cons: Since many power supplies out there (like mine) still don't provide enough SATA power connections, it would be nice if a molex-to-SATA power adapter cable was included as standard issue with all hard drives, but I'm being nit-picky. It wasn't a big deal for me to go purchase some adapters for my assembly.

Other Thoughts: It's a little early for me to be writing a review on this since I just purchased and installed it. Only time will tell if this is a really good drive or not.

At the risk of this review being edited, I would like to encourage Newegg to use better packing materials/methods with sensitive equipment like this. Thankfully my (2) hard drives arrived unharmed, but there was very little cushioning material in the Newegg box they came in.

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N/A
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/25/2010 8:04:35 AM

Rating + 1 Disappointed


Pros: Would be great IF it work...(emphasize "IF")

Cons: Ready...set...oops why didn't it run? It didn't show up in BIOS. At first I didn't know which component is faulty so I tried all possible ways: changing SATA ports, SATA cables, power connectors, etc...No hope. So I jumped to conclusion that this drive is DOA...

Other Thoughts: I really hate it when I read 1-star reviews but now I have to write one. I've owned 2 external WD drives for a few years without a single problem. I also have several internal Seagate drives with no probs either, but I've read some bad reviews about recent Seagate products so I decided to make a switch. This is my first internal WD drive ever but I'm not happy with it. I even used a $10 off promo code when purchasing this but now I have to pay the same to ship it back. Hope the replacement one will work.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/24/2010 12:19:38 PM

Rating + 4 decent performer, so far


Pros: * decent price/capacity ratio

Cons: * none so far (docked one egg due to middling transfer rates overall, and pokey read rates in inner tracks -- a different drive i have, for comparison, has a slowest inner-track read of 70 MB/sec and a peak outer-track read of just under 140MB/sec)

Other Thoughts: After a somewhat rocky few months with the AACS green drive, which seems to confuse motherboards with its constant spin-down cycles, I went with the AALS instead and have had zero problems.

Test results (HD tach v 3.0.4.0) quick bench:

Burst: 218.3 MB/sec
sequential read (outermost tracks): appx 97 MB/sec
sequential read (innermost tracks): appx 48 MB/sec
average read: 78.6 MB/sec
CPU utilization: 1%
random access: 12.1ms

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/23/2010 6:59:32 PM

Rating + 4 Good drive for the price


Pros: Fast, quiet, not too warm for the performance. Great buy and NewEgg does a fast job getting the product out the door. Read the cons though

Cons: First drive died in 1/2 hour. Newegg packaging for the drives should be better. I did mention this to customer service but did not go anywhere. Next drive arrived packed the same way but did work just fine.

Other Thoughts: If you buy one of these drives download the Western Digital drive test software. It takes a while but you will know what you have when completed.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/22/2010 3:30:13 PM

Rating + 1 What a horrible Drive and WD Customer Service


Pros: It was nice while it worked. Can't say more than that.

Cons: Brought this drive about 2 month ago to go with the new gaming computer. Only after 2 month of usage, it started to have the clicking noise, and crashed. Turned to WD Customer Service for RMA, and they have send a 5400RPM Green Drive... and not only that, the replacement drive is a re-certified drive with only 6 month of warrently... NEVER EVER buying another WD product, EVER!

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DaGeneral
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/22/2010 11:01:17 AM

Rating + 3 Such a Drive!


Pros: Nice to own, very fast searching, so if you read my cons, this wonderful drive is now partioned off as a back up and used only sparingly now, until I find a use for it. Perhaps a BU for my I pod which is almost full.

Cons: My vista would not recognize this drive when booting to a new install. I took it out of the machine and formatted it elsewhere and put it back into vista machine, but NO GO. IT is a big drive. Vista no like it. So, I go with smaller drive that virus had eaten, and I had formatted else where many times. And all was hunky dory!!! Break out the champagne!!!

Other Thoughts: Not today, my head juist hurts

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Kesslheimer
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/20/2010 11:21:41 PM

Rating + 5 Great HD!


Pros: WD makes a great HD in general, I have built over 50 systems using WD hard drives only 3 have failed in over 7 years of service... That being said this particular HD is the fastest quietest HD you can buy for your money! The windows experience index gives this HD a rating of 5.9, can't expect more from a HD that costs less than 80 bucks!

Cons: Shipping was super fast, just wish they could have filled the box with packing peanuts, UPS is not kind to their packages and having a box that is 3/4 full could have been a problem. That being said, mine arrived fine and works wonderfully!(you will need to supply you own sata cables)

Other Thoughts: I have a raptor 10,000 rpm, 32MB catch and it only rates a 6.2 on the index! This is a better drive for the money!

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Go Blue!!
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/20/2010 9:26:44 PM

Rating + 5 Great Stuff


Pros: I got 2 of them during thanksgiving and have been using one for Win 7 and the other one for torrent downloading. As of today both of them worked as expected.

They were bubble wrapped and packed within the individual boxes. They were then put into a bigger box with some wrapping paper to fill up the space. The bubble wrap popped on the side for both of them but I didn't believe it happened when they were being shipped as the individual boxes had the extra protection on the side. Anyways, the hard drives are still working fine.

Cons: N/A

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WD Loyal User
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/20/2010 7:18:08 PM

Rating + 5 As described.. Excellent!


Pros: I purchased two of these from Newegg. Using one as internal drive and another in external enclosure. Both work great. It's fast, quiet, and it's cooler than other hard drives that I have. I am 100% happy with both of them. They were packed nicely when I received them. Each were bubble wrapped, each packaged in a small box, and the two small boxes were inside a big box with paper filling.

Cons: Price now isn't the Black Friday price and it hasn't gone down yet.

Other Thoughts: I am a 100% WD fan. Seagate's 5 year warranty got me interested in them a bit, but still ended up with WD. I am not sure how the warranty service is handled now, but 10 years ago, WD shipped a replacement first so that I can transfer what I can, then shipped bad one back all with no shipping cost from me.

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rmarkl
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/20/2010 3:31:05 PM

Rating + 5 Good Drive


Pros: HD arrived securely wrapped in bubble wrap, and packing materials...not as others have stated. Drive is in and working just fine

Cons: I should of ordered 2 lol

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skyn3t
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/20/2010 2:21:27 PM

Rating + 5 Good investiment


Pros: like we can see i ned a lot space and WD rock's

Cons: good a good deal on that one to :)

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gnoW
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/20/2010 11:28:42 AM

Rating + 5 Excellent Drive!


Pros: Price/Performance value is well worth every penny

RAID 0 setup without a hitch.

Cons: None, I unfortunately got 1 defective drive, no biggie, it happens. RMA'd it asap.

Other Thoughts: Neweggs RMA service is fast, and easy to deal with.
I would definitely consider making any future purchases only with Newegg

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: more than 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/20/2010 11:08:49 AM

Rating + 3 Not good for RAID


Pros: Large, fast, runs cool, and quiet. Data transfer rates are good. For the price, they are OK, as long as you don't plan on using them in a RAID.

Cons: Keeps dropping out of RAID and causing RAID errors. I have 4 of these drives. I am operating one as my system drive, and 3 of them in a RAID5 as my data drive. One of the drives keeps dropping out of RAID and causing degraded/error conditions.

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Vela
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/20/2010 9:15:41 AM

Rating + 5 These things are fast


Pros: It's a Caviar Black, what isn't there to like? These things are fast and run cool (31C in my Xigmatek Midgard with ambient of 28C) Load times are noticeably quicker than my Caviar Blue, and games like WoW which have high HD activity really help this drive shine.

Cons: I don't have a second one yet to run raid.

Other Thoughts: It comes in a thick layer of bubble wrap, and that's always fun. Samsung F3's are a decent alternative if these are out of stock or the price isn't to your liking. No reason not to pick one of these ones up if they are on sale though :)

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/19/2010 7:34:58 PM

Rating + 5 Good


Pros: Plenty of storage. Does what I need it to do.

Cons: No complaints.

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Michael
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/19/2010 2:49:39 PM

Rating + 5 Solid Drives


Pros: Working extremely well in my Areca raid 6 array. I set up 8 of these on one of my linux boxes to host a set of samba shares for my home. Other than one of the drives dying after about 2 months, they have been nothing but great. I would highly recommend these drives to any individual attempting to run them with an Areca raid card. They run relatively cool in comparison to some of my other drives, and to be honest are quiet enough for me to literally forget about that server from time to time.

Cons: wish the price was like this 5 months ago.

Other Thoughts: These are OEM, so don't expect anything other than the bare drive.

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Roadkill
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/18/2010 8:48:19 PM

Rating + 4


Pros: great HD

Cons: Windows 7 rates it at 5.8

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calinux
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
1/18/2010 11:45:13 AM

Rating + 5 Very satisfied


Pros: I have 2 of those in RAID 0 using ASUS M4A79XTD EVO built in controller and I got read speeds from 140 MB/s to 240 MB/s. I have a virtual machine (using virtualbox 3.1) and guest Windows XP starts in about 2(yes two) seconds.
I've paid 130$ for them and I have 1.5 TB. If I would bought a SSD I would have to pay around 450$ for 128 GB...

Cons: Not a SSD :).
Maybe a little bit hot? Anyway I bought a front cooler for my case so is not a problem.

Other Thoughts: You will love this together with 8 GB of RAM and Windows 7 x64 edition.
You should create one partition for OS at "the end" of the disk. The end of the disk has lower read/write speeds but it has better seek times. For your OS you want the best seek time since it works with many small files.

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fred
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/18/2010 9:34:09 AM

Rating + 5 FAST FAST FAST


Pros: Very Fast - I also run a RAMdrive and seems almost as fast - Also have the 640gb version - Love it
~ Seagate Who ~

Cons: NONE -

Other Thoughts: Will buy another if it goes on sale

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Gazornenplat
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/18/2010 6:54:11 AM

Rating + 5 Fast, great price, but a little noisy.


Pros: Great price per GB. Fast drive with low seek times and high transfer rates.

Cons: Noisy. We're all used to hard drive clicks when accessing, but this model seems louder than others. I'm running 2 drives in RAID 0, so double the drives means extra noise.

Other Thoughts: My Windows 7 Ultimate Experience Index for 2 drives in RAID 0 is 5.9.

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E-Train
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/17/2010 8:49:43 PM

Rating + 5 Great capacity and performance


Pros: Fast read/write times.
Reasonable price.
Worked the first time.
More than enough capacity for the average user.

Cons: Not a SSD, Not 1TB. Ummm......... yeah.

Other Thoughts: I went w/ 750gb over 1tb because the price jumped $20 compared to the $5 increments of the lower cap drives. This is more than enough to keep most of my music library at high bit/sample rates, can keep several games on it as well. Now I need to find something to do w/ the other 500gb's hahahahaha

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/17/2010 6:44:46 PM

Rating + 4 Good drive-slightly noisy.


Pros: Good performance, size, price, warranty

Cons: I've had experience with two of these drives. Although both have worked well, they sounded the same and have been somewhat noisier than other smaller WD drives - particularly when moving large chunks of data. My limited experience with these two drives indicates that although good quality, they are NOT necessarily whisper quiet.

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nietzsche
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/17/2010 2:01:29 PM

Rating + 5 good drive


Pros: very stable never any problems. WDC does it again....good product......

Cons: on windows 7 (x64 ultimate) performance scale only a 5.9 little pricey

Other Thoughts: might have to raid

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campdavid
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/17/2010 8:26:05 AM

Rating + 5 works well


Pros: showed up in 1 day , was packed well.
Installed easy, works well

Cons: none

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Questors
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/17/2010 6:20:10 AM

Rating + 5 Excellent


Pros: Western Digital rep and reliability, black series speed, drive size

Cons: None yet

Other Thoughts: I have 4 original Raptors bought when first release still rocking and 2 Caviar blue drives, one is as "old" as the Raptors, the other blue is a couple years old. At any rate they are all still doing what they are supposed to with excellence. I have had to RMA several other drives from various "big name" vendors, a couple more than once. Not one problem from the Western Digital

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/16/2010 6:37:07 PM

Rating + 4 PSU fried it


Pros: It worked for a few hours....then i smelled buring rubber, i open case to investigate and found the PSU had melted the SATA power connector to the hard drive... other than that it worked great!!!

Cons: none that i can tell

Other Thoughts: i am now using an old laptop hard drive and it works fine but only 120gb (using a diferent cable on my modular PSU)

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Questors
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/16/2010 2:04:14 PM

Rating + 4 Where's 51.37GB??!!!


Pros: Western Digital quality, Black series speed, price - sort of*

Cons: 698.37 GB recognized by Windows 7 64 ! Where's the rest of my hard drive? Did WD forget a platter? Part of a platter?

Other Thoughts: Is Windows 7 64 crazy? The drive advertises as a 750 GB hard drive. I understand a certain amount of the drive is unavailable for system needs, etc., but 51.63 GB just gone upon physical installation? We are not talking formatting or any other process. I will be contacting WD to see what they have to say. Their web site says: Physical Specifications - Formatted Capacity- 750,156 MB - Capacity 750 GB.
So far the drive is quiet and my computer "feels" a bit more responsive. I have not done a HD tests for comparison to the old 1.5 SATA it replaces.
*I am thankful I got this on sale with free shipping. It maybe makes up for nearly 52 GB of drive space missing.

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V I |Z U $!
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/15/2010 9:57:48 PM

Rating + 5 Quiet


Pros: Lots of space
Price
Quiet
Fast

Cons: AHCI wont work (I dont even know if this drive is compatible)

Other Thoughts: HD Tune Average: 88.6MB/s (Not as fast vs the 640 versions)

Intel i5 750
Gigabyte GA-P55-UD2 v1.0
Corsair CMX4GX3M2A1600C9
Western Digital WD7501AALS
Sony AD-7240S-0B
3x Apevia CF12SL-UBL
Sapphire 100283L Radeon HD 5770
Thermaltake W0100RU 500W
Windows 7 Pro 64

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piecemill
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/15/2010 9:01:14 PM

Rating + 5 Good packaging


Pros: Great cache memory 32 meg. Good deal for storage amount and pricing.

Cons: None yet.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/15/2010 6:10:38 PM

Rating + 1 Nice whiled it worked...


Pros: brought this with the new gaming system about 2 month ago, everything worked well for the 2 month period.

Cons: clicking noise and then dead, no longer working...

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Wilho
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/15/2010 5:11:53 PM

Rating + 5 Works niceWestern Digital Caviar Black WD7501AALS 750GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive -Bare Drive


Pros: Installed very easy, got what I was looking for. I don't have any complaints

Cons: A little better packing would not hurt......

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WILDBILL
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/15/2010 11:25:09 AM

Rating + 5 I LOVE THIS HARD DRIVE


Pros: WOW, I PLUGGED THIS HARD DRIVE IN ON MY DESK AND HAD TO PUT MY EAR TO IT TO MAKE SURE IT WAS EVEN RUNNING.IT FORMATTED OUT TO 698.7GB,AS WAS EXPECTED.WD BLACK WITH 5 YEARS WARRENTY,PLUS FREE SHIPPING.I LOVE IT SO MUCH,I JUST ORDERED ANOTHER ONE. PACKING WAS GREAT,NEWEGG ROCKS

Cons: NONE

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/14/2010 9:06:57 PM

Rating + 1 DOA lucky me


Pros: be nice if it worked....

Cons: DOA

Other Thoughts: Showed up in bios, both windows7 and xp would boot, but wouldn't get to the menu for install, repair etc. Put in a working hd to test the system and see if I could format it that way, but the new hd would not show up.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/14/2010 5:19:27 PM

Rating + 5 Works Great! Fast!


Pros: Works great, just as described. I was upgrading from a whopping 80GB HDD. This is much nicer.

Cons: None

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N/A
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/14/2010 9:59:41 AM

Rating + 3


Pros: So far so good

Cons: no wires & packaging wasn't very good! was wrapped in bubble wrap with static bag, stuffed in a box with popcorn foam!

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/12/2010 2:11:30 PM

Rating + 5 Packed Good


Pros: Packed very good. It was wrapped in bubble wrap, placed into another fitted box and then was in with the rest of my order. Nice job newegg. As far as the drive itself, it does it's job. I've only ever owned WD hard drives and not one of them has let me down.

Cons: not really a con, but for some people who don't know this is an OEM hard drive. Not that that is an issue what-so-over.

Other Thoughts: I would buy definately buy it again

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Youtube/ThisGuyJohn
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/11/2010 3:33:09 PM

Rating + 5 Great performance/storage


Pros: Got a couple of these in Raid 0 for HD recording and it has given me utter flawless video quality with uncompressed 720p. I also got these on sale and Newegg brought them within a day. This is my fifth WD HDD in my little Antec 300 midtower, love it, love it!

Cons: I had to reformat my OS drive because by default, my motherboard was in IDE mode and I couldn't find a registry edit or anything of the sort to get back into windows in raid mode.. Just got a constant BSOD. Windows 7 was even snappier with these HDDs in raid0, but it was affecting the quality of my videos. So after just reformatting the OS drive and using the raid 0 just for games and video recording, I've been so very happy with the performance and space.

Other Thoughts: I suppose my "con" should be an "other thoughts" instead, but oh well. :P I'll just use this space to advertise where my videos go: Youtube.com/ThisGuyJohn

I aim to entertain, as well as inform. So stop by and hopefully you'll always come back for more :P

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Bob
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/11/2010 9:59:46 AM

Rating + 4 WD Cavier 750 gb


Pros: Running win7 64 bit and has had zero problems. Great gb for the money. Good performance for the price.

Cons: Windows 7 experience index rates it as a 5.9 which drops my whole system down 1.5 points. I suppose the only thing better would be spending 3 times the money on a sata 6.0 drive. Maybe in 2 years when they are more reasonably priced...

Other Thoughts: For the price you can't beat it.

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Adam
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/11/2010 9:09:44 AM

Rating + 5 good hdd


Pros: it works greaat. more than enough space for me

Cons: none rly. came up as 5.9 on windows 7 tho.

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Pearlbank
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/11/2010 4:11:24 AM

Rating + 5 As Advertised


Pros: Capacity, Cost

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: Installed easily and have had no problems using it as a boot drive.

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Mike
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/10/2010 9:01:06 PM

Rating + 5 Nice


Pros: Fast Hard drive. I am very happy with it. Good price. I purchase around 25 hard drives a year. WD has never failed me. Wish I could say the same about Seagate. Box of 15 Segates and I got two bad ones. I returned one of them never to see it again.

Cons: I had to pay for it. Price was good though.

Other Thoughts: Western Digital has the market on hard drives. They are all fast and work like a charm.

Thanks New Egg!!

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/10/2010 3:04:17 PM

Rating + 4 Whats up with the packaging?


Pros: Great capacity and cache, 32mb.

Cons: You would think WD would ship their prodects better, especially a black caviar. The drive came in a anti-static bag which was placed in a box with my psu so that it was resting on the edge of the box, no cushion. I was very surprised it wasn't DOA especially with UPS' 6 foot drop policy. Im kinda worried about lifespan now.

Other Thoughts: Honestly, throw it in a box with styrafoam or something....anything

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/9/2010 7:03:19 PM

Rating + 5 awesome HD


Pros: Fast, quiet, big and has reduced boot up time to W7.

Cons: Didn't get 2, great HD for the price

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/8/2010 9:30:59 PM

Rating + 5 Good Product!


Pros: Very quiet and has lasted more than a year now (first with Vista32 and now with Windows7 x64). Reformatted perfectly and has been very reliable for the past year (I keep my computer on for 6 days a week and do maintenance on Saturday morning).

Cons: Only con is that Mcrosoft won't let u upgrade from 32 to 64. But that's a MS problem, not a Western Digital. That and I wish I had brought 2!

Other Thoughts: It shows up as only 698 but That's a problem every hard drive I've ever had of this size has.

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Jazzmaster
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/8/2010 11:51:56 AM

Rating + 5 Just like the 640Gb only bigger


Pros: I had originally bought the 640Gb but I dropped it back in September so I decided that I wanted more space and I went with this one instead.

Cons: None

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/8/2010 10:37:24 AM

Rating + 4 Little Noiser


Pros: Ordered 2 OEM drives and both arrived ready to go. Packaging was excellent.

Cons: These are a little noiser than the 2 Seagate Barracuda® drives they replaced.

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PacificSky
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/8/2010 5:56:26 AM

Rating + 3 Don't buy these drives for use in RAID 1/5/10


Pros: These drives are fast and probably the cheapest $/GB for this amount of performance (and they go on sale at Newegg pretty often).

Cons: The new WD Caviar Black drives do not support the TLER setting (it is disabled). These effectively make them useless in any RAID array which involves redundancy (RAID 1/5/10) because the RAID controller will think the drive has gone bad whereas it's just spending a large amount of time recovering from a read/write error. Without TLER be prepared to spend a large amount of time 'recovering' your RAID array after every unclean shutdown. And if 2 or more drives in your array happen to hit this at the same time, your array is toast.

WD wants you to buy their 'Enterprise' class RE3/RE4 drives for use in RAID arrays. The corresponding 750GB RE3 drive (WD7502ABYS) is double the price of this drive. What a ripoff. Especially considering the TLER setting was user-settable in older Caviar drives (and recently removed).

Other Thoughts: The world is moving towards redundant, cheap storage. Most consumer motherboards now ship with some form of RAID on board (Intel Matrix?). These shenanigans on WD's part reek of money-grubbing tactics to me.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/6/2010 3:23:46 PM

Rating + 5 western digital caviar black wd7501aals


Pros: this thing is amazing. if u play games u need this drive. it will in a good computer stop frame rate lag.

Cons: this drive is noisy compared to seagate. u can hear everything this drive does.

Other Thoughts: if u game get this drive no questions asked

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chaosdsm
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/5/2010 8:54:36 PM

Rating + 4 Fast and Roomy


Pros: Great combo deal when I bought mine. The fastest single drive I've owned to date, & plenty of room for OS + dozens of games & programs.

Cons: 15-20% slower than a pair of 74GB WD Raptor Drives in RAID 0, I was kind of hopeing for same or better performance with the increased capacity, that some people said I'd get...

Other Thoughts: 5 year warranty... nice to have even though I hope it's never needed.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/5/2010 8:52:45 PM

Rating + 1 Junk


Pros: Worked good when it worked.

Cons: Head Crashed, The head just crashed today. the drive worked good. powercount was low..

Other Thoughts: I love WD, but what the heck....

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Pluto101
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/5/2010 5:44:30 PM

Rating + 5 Works Good


Pros: It works. Stays cool. Quiet. Fast transfer speeds for a media drive. What more can you ask from a HDD?

Cons: None.

Other Thoughts: Bought this on sale with free shipping. Great deal.

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Werewolf486
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
1/5/2010 3:27:35 PM

Rating + 5 I've been RAIDed!


Pros: Got 2 of them to put in my new rig. These are in RAID1 for all my programs, games, music, pics, etc. with 2 80gb Velociraptors in RAID0 for WIN7.

Cons: None yet, runs great and quiet.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/5/2010 10:59:37 AM

Rating + 5 Close to velociraptor performance


Pros: Low cost, fast, quiet, excellent for apps involving big files, like Photoshop.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: Will be boot drive for wife's computer when it gets upgraded to W7. Impressed by performance, expecially considering price. I've got an Intel G2 160gb SSD and pair of 300gb Velociraptors in my main computer, and I'm pleasantly surprised by how fast it is.

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TheBlueberry
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/3/2010 8:53:37 PM

Rating + 5 Good Value


Pros: I like the large size and I also like that the density per plater isnt so high. Means less errors. Reliable data storge. makes a great raid 0 drive.

Cons: Not the fastest single drive

Other Thoughts: I bought them to put into a external enclosure for backup. Also would make a great raid 0 array for inside the computer to either put the os or data on.
Two of these drives in a raid 0 will be perfect for the average computer user as a main drive.

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EE but First Build
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/3/2010 7:27:02 PM

Rating + 5 Got Two


Pros: Both worked out of the box, once I got the Windows 7 64-bit drivers worked out. I don't intend to RAID, just internal backup.

Cons: These are not quite as fast as the 640gb versions, but they were sold out. These are OEM drives so there was no documentation as I expected. I would rather have bought "retail", but newegg apparently does not carry them that way. WD web-site has everything you need for the drives, but nothing for the Windows 7 drivers.

Other Thoughts: I eventually got working drivers for my P55 Extreme MOBO from the ASRock website, but none of the online documentation appears to be ready for Windows 7-64 yet.

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DaNVeR
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/3/2010 10:34:27 AM

Rating + 5 Nice Drives


Pros: Bought two of these drives and set them up Raid-0. Fast access. Noise level does not seem excessive to me. Temps not bad.

Cons: None so far.

Other Thoughts: As always, NewEgg shipping was fantastic.

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i.c.spots
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/3/2010 8:04:06 AM

Rating + 5 Very pleased so far


Pros: Installation and set up went very smoothly. 750GB, 32MB cache and fast. Checked to be sure it was recognized it in the bios. Booted to Windows 7, went to the disk management did a quick format. Openned Media Center and assigned the TV show storage to this drive. Shipping was unbelievably fast.

Cons: None so far

Other Thoughts: Remember it is OEM which means "bare bones". There are no cables, installation disks or manuals. It came wrapped in bubble wrap. For the price, it was everything I wanted. For two decades I have been using WD and continue returning to WD for my HDD needs.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/1/2010 4:43:23 PM

Rating + 5 Not DOA!!!


Pros: Works good, not DOA

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: What else matters?

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VietPho
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/31/2009 7:27:16 PM

Rating + 2 It worked for a few weeks. Windows wouldn't recongize the hard drive.


Pros: It was cheap. I got it during a black Wednesday deal for $59.99

Cons: I bought this hard drive along with the Western Digital Caviar Green WD15EADS 1.5TB during black Friday week.

Both hard drives worked for a few weeks and one day Windows would not recognize the hard drives. The bios detected the hard drive but not Windows. As a result, I had to reformat both hard drives in order to get it to work again.

Other Thoughts: I've reformatted the hard drive and will continue using it and pray that it does not fail on me again.

By the way, the 1.5TB was suppose to be the backup of this 750GB. I can't believe both failed at the same time.

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T
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/31/2009 5:37:14 PM

Rating + 5 Works


Pros: So far it works, really fast compared to my old one.

Cons: None yet.

Other Thoughts: Either go with this one or the 640 version, but for $5 more you do get more space for very little performance lost.

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TSG!
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
12/31/2009 10:13:01 AM

Rating + 5 Not the only direction to point your finger!


Pros: Like another reviewer mentioned, I have yet to purchased "this" drive but am including it on my current, and third build, in as many months, and the first two were much smaller (320GB less expensive) WD bare bones blue Caviar drives, and the first came in a foam encasement inside a blank white box packed in the larger peanut filled box with the other components, the second one came as the other person described, just a layer or two of medium size bubble, but high ml bubble wrap, (heavier the ml the louder the "pop" when popped, so it is good quality as compared to many other mail order distributors use) and based on the first order, I was rather put off at how both this and other bare components like the Sony Optiarc DVD burner was the same on the second build, 1st one in a plain white box with foam cushioned enclosure inside the box, and the second just the bubble wrap.

But these were built tough enough to remain intact, despite the lack of packing!

Cons: I would have felt the first method of packing would have been the standard though, and was somewhat disappointed by that aspect of that order, but I guess we also have to realize the sheer quantities of items being packed and shipped so close to the holidays meant that that "some" corners had to be cut to expedite the packing and shipping of enormous numbers of orders, to keep Newegg's speedy shipping reputation intact, I got everything much sooner than expected!

Well honestly none of these item have given any problems, all were easily plug and play installed on two different Asus Mobo's one ATX on micro ATX with Win 7 /64 ultimate.

All are performing up to expectations so really no cons for WD or Sony!

Newegg may not post this, as I understand this isn't "quite" with in their review guidlines, but felt other factors could have also accounted for the complaints, plus I have not once ever heard of Newegg not scurrying to make good on any problems encountered, and quickly at tha

Other Thoughts: The point is I was really surprised at the packing of th second round of components, compared to the first. I was truly concerned about shock damage, considering the one that was received the day before X-mas-eve, needed to be working by the next day for a present.

Thankfully there were no incidences, however it does show Newegg may not be the only one to blame for the other faulty components, since these worked just fine despite shipping in sub freezing temperatures, which subjects electronics to a higher incidence of shock damage, cracked solder joints etc.. due to disproportioned contraction between the non-metal and metal parts if any degree of shock is added to this equation.

There is also a carrier mis-handling of fragile packages to consider, items that would have arrived with out incident with the way these were packed, making it ok, I disagree with the person not blaming the carrier as well, if some make it fine, then those that did not, might have just been mis-handle

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Felix
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/30/2009 3:24:29 PM

Rating + 5 Great HDD, Very Satisfied


Pros: 750Gbs, fast read/write speed, 32Mb cache(though I personally don't notice this effect much, however am still very pleased)

I got it on sale, so I would recommend you buy it when its on sale, i got it for $60 I believe and if I see it on sale again I will buy again.

I chose this over the equivalent Seagate only because many people had problems with that HDD

Cons: None so far, very happy.

Other Thoughts: I'm waiting to buy another to see RAID performance

Rig:
Antec 1200
Phenom ii 550 (unlocked and overclocked to 3.5Ghz)
Sapphire 5770( at 875, 1275)
WD Caviar Black 750GB
A-DATA 4gbs DDR3 1600
Xigamatek Dark Knight Heatsink
OCZ Modxstream 700W PSU
Asus M4A79XTD EVO

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Von
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/30/2009 1:40:16 PM

Rating + 5 Great Deal


Pros: When you get 9.375 GB's per dollar spent, you know its a good deal. Plus Western Digital doesn't put out junk. I have two of these in my new build and could not be happier.

Cons: none...

Other Thoughts: I know there are newer, faster hard drives available now, but the added cost to get them doesn't seem worth it for the minimal speed difference.

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khartster
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/30/2009 9:48:28 AM

Rating + 5 on sale


Pros: Bought a pair of these to put in my i7 computer i was planning on building I put these in a macally 2 bay enclosure for the time being so far have worked very well.
Was going to buy the 640GB WD blacks on thanksgiving but they sold out bought a pair of these for $60 apiece. Still a good deal.

Cons: none yet, hopefully they will stay in a raid 0 array when I get all my parts.

Other Thoughts: I just ordered the rest of my computer. Hopefully everything goes well.

Core i7 920
Gigabyte X58-UD5
WD Black 750GB (raid 0 hopefully)
EVGA GTX 260 SC
OCZ Gold 6GB 1600Hz
CM Cosmos silver w/ 900 W PS
CM Rife V8 heatsink
planning on running windows 7 as well as OS X

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Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/29/2009 9:55:10 AM

Rating + 2 DOA and poor packaging


Pros: Looks like a good drive. Thats why I purchased them.

Cons: DOA. I purchased 2 drives and 1 is dead out of the box. Now I have to buy 2 diffent drives locally so I can get this computer up and running.

Other Thoughts: This is my first DOA with Newegg. This is also the first time that the packaging was poorly done. But it could be a bad drive from the manufacturer, who knows? I still love Newegg and will continue to buy from them.

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john
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/29/2009 5:45:48 AM

Rating + 5 dependable drive


Pros: Good solid drive 'Black' only (5 year warranty) from now on!

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: I had 2 'Green' drives and they both failed less than 30 days out of warranty (3 years). Stay away from anything WD puts out with the words 'Green'!

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Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/28/2009 9:38:58 PM

Rating + 3 Well..


Pros: -Pretty fast.
-32mb cache.
-Was pretty cheap on sale.
-750gb.
-Fast newegg shipping, well packaged.

Cons: At first, this drive was very quiet and responsive. But, as I've used it more and more, it has gotten very noisy. and I mean VERY noisy. I have to put on headphones or crank the volume up just to drown it out. Took off 2 eggs because it's so annoying.

Other Thoughts: I could really go for some pizza right now.

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Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/28/2009 7:31:42 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: I didn't think I'd notice any kind of hard drive speed increase from my old hd with a 16 mb cache but I've been pleasantly surprised by the speed increase in read/write speeds

Cons: Bare Drive.

Other Thoughts: I'd wish it came with a Sata cable and screws but it is as listed: "Bare Drive."

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Ci2e
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/28/2009 1:16:21 AM

Rating + 5 Awesomesauce!


Pros: Replaced a WD 80GB 7200RPM with this drive.

Used Acronis True Image to clone the 80GB to the 750GB and Windows 7 runs flawlessly without re-installing!

More than enough room for 40+ Games or roundabout but I'll never get that far ;)

Cons: None that I can think of great product!

Other Thoughts: 698GB after formatting in Windows 7...

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A_WakeSkate
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/27/2009 5:58:01 PM

Rating + 5 In Love...!!!1


Pros: Fast!
32MB cache

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: Buy 2 and setup RAID.
Very Fast
windows7 + install = 5minutes...!!1

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Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/27/2009 5:18:05 PM

Rating + 5 great improvement


Pros: The first drive arrived DOA because of packaging. Newegg took care of me quickly and sent another drive. The replacement drive was well packaged.

Cons: Had to RMA the first drive

Other Thoughts: Newegg has always taken care of me and I will say I was really impressed with the improvement in packaging. Keep it up Newegg.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/27/2009 10:12:07 AM

Rating + 4 Solid drive


Pros: I'm writing this after using the drives long enough to feel like they won't die on me. I couldn't pass up the Thanksgiving deal from the Egg. Bought two even though I wanted RE2s or RE3s. The price was too good. Arrived individually bubble wrapped and boxed, within a single large shipping box. I was happy about that after reading that other OEM drives had arrived in flimsier packaging.

Nothing much to say about the drives. They seem to work fine. I have one running my new installation of Windows 7 64 bit and the other as a backup drive. Yes they are - like most WD drives - a little noisier than other drives but they aren't any worse than my WD RE2s. With any luck they'll last a good long time.

Cons: Other than being a little noisy (that's the reason for -1 Egg), none.

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Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/27/2009 6:10:10 AM

Rating + 5


Pros: so far quite reliable and fast

Cons: None

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