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Western Digital WD5000AAKS 500GB Caviar Sata 7200 Rpm 16MB Cache SATA Hard Drive
From Western Digital
List Price: $99.99
Price: $79.99 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details

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20 new or used available from $72.99

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Customer Reviews

Lots of storage and a great price.
I have 4 of these drive’s in 2 seperate boxes. The 1st drive in each box runs XP with a seperate partition for storage. The 2nd drive is mainly for video and storage. I couldnt be any happier with them. They run alot quieter than my old drives and the r/w times are great. I’ve tried drives from Seagate to Maxtor, but will keep buying WD drives. If the prices drop anymore I’m going to go broke from buying more.

UBUNTU AND VISTA IN ONE DRIVE
Everything is working properly, i installed vista ultimate sp1 with a q6000 in 8 min, and later after, i made a partition with the ubuntu cd and installed ubuntu hardy heron in 6 min, no joke, this drive is crazy fast up to 66 mb/s (HD TACH) transfer rate, i was migrating from old eide drives, sata is the way, also note for vista media experience users, HARDDRIVE SCORE 5.7 NOT 5.9, i had before with ide drives 5.2, it isint a big difference may i say, but the boot time and install time are much shorter and speedy for such a huge drive. And for 79.99 it’s a steal. if you want 5.9 get a raptor or velociraptor.

Easy install & no problems
I received the product on time & as soon as I received it I installed it & within minutes I was writing to the new drive. The drive has been running great since the install with no errors of any kind.