💾 WD5000AADS 500GB Caviar Green Desktop Hard Drive - SATA 3 Gb/s, Intellipower, 32MB Cache - Bulk/OEM Review

50% failure right out of the box! This will be the last time I use a Western Digital GREEN drive - - - period. I've seen problems with these drives before and should have known better; don't let the cheap price fool you. (Error code = 07 Error reading test object - error checkpoint = 97) So for a drive that has been running for less than an hour. Two hard drives and one has already failed. I am preparing to connect the second; and this works better; or they will both be sent back to the seller…

Item arrived dead. I sent another one and it seems to be working for now. I will update if anything changes. Now I need to get rid of the hassle of returning defective equipment during the move so I don't get charged twice. I do not recommend this product

Just buy an SSD, you will have problems with this HDD. I've only had it for two weeks and it's already preventing my computer from booting. It's having trouble reading the data and I have to restart the computer for Windows to boot. I mean just buy an SSD for booting and what you use frequently.

Works out of the box. One caveat: the drive had to be mounted for Windows 10 to recognize it. This is easily done via the "Administrator Tools"/Computer Management/Storage/Disk Management control panel. Just partition/format and install to your computer's file system. Bone slices sealed with no cord or instructions. In the past there was never a problem with this type of offer. Has always worked well, having initially understood the caveat.

I don't think I've ever left a bad review on anything. But simply no. above all. As I was putting all my parts together to actually assemble my build, this thing was making hellish noises I had never heard before. I had to listen to a few YouTube videos about the noise a failed hard drive can make. I didn't find a 100% match, but it was pretty clear that this wasn't the chosen one. Not only that, but if you add just like that. For 10€ more you get much better ones, that's at least the blue…

I bought this hard drive as the main drive for a general purpose server. I ran game servers, language servers and a few different chat servers on it for personal use. My main desktop had large, slow fans that needed to be as quiet as possible, so I tried to keep the server (which was also under my desk) quiet as well. The variable speed seems to work pretty well. I didn't notice any I/O bottlenecks and after the first start I hardly hear the hard drive anymore. In fact, there's not much to say…

I recently assembled a new Windows 7 Core i7 system with some new parts and some old from my previous system. Since my last computer had hard drives that were several years old, I decided to get two new Western Digital SATA Green 500 GB 7200 RPM drives. The investment in the security of my data has paid off. I couldn't be happier. They're quiet in my CPU case (seriously, I don't even feel them if I put my toe on the case during read/write operations) and faster than any hard drive I've had…