Hard Drives > Western Digital Hard Drives > From 200 GB to 300 GB > up to 60 GBP

Advantages: Fast, reliable and small
Disadvantages: None

The hard drive is meant to be used internally but I use mine as an external hard drive with an USB external enclosure. The drive might not be the fastest around but it is fast enough to use for those large files that makes life difficult. The fact that it uses SATA makes faster than IDE hard drives of the same size. The SATA also makes it very stable and up to date with the latest technology. I like the fact that you can buy it for such a low price ... Read review

Advantages: stying,price,reliability
Disadvantages: storage may not be enough for some people,FAT32 format from factory

...cases and hard drives. Western Digital do other options on these hard drives now with different sizes of drive and different connection options including firewire,wireless etc. to cope with home networking and the need for larger capacities. I have had no realiabilty issues with this drive and am totally satisfied with its performance. The only niggle i would have with it is that from the factory it comes formatted with FAT32 which is designed ...
...savvy as the newer NTFS format. This can be rectified with a simple reformat of the drive before putting anything on it. Unlike me who never got around to it and is now scared of converting it for thought of losing all my MP3's. Nevermind it works fine on FAT32. Overall a great drive,great value for money and in my experience very reliable. ... Read review

Advantages: Good bit of kit
Disadvantages: None

bought this to go wth my system before xmas. i had a spare sata power from my psu to the hard drive, plugged the sata cable from the hard drive to the mobo. It Worked!! data access speeds are alot faster than ide hard drives, or even sata150 hard drives. using HDTach (google it) i found that the burst rate was 279MB a second just sort of the 300MB/s spec. not sure waht cause the 21MB lack of performace, but i honeslty dont care, i probably wouldnt ... Read review

Advantages: Great Reliable Drive which runs well.
Disadvantages: I have yet to find any real disadvantages with this drive.

I keep going back to western digital because after buying harddrives from several manufacturers i have found this to be the best, this particualar drive offers great speed and space and great reliability. you always hear of peoples hard drives dying but i have had many western digitals and never had a problem with them. i think they are great drives and i would definatley recommend them to anyone after a reliable, reasonably fast and reasonably large ... Read review

Advantages: Fast with large files, quiet fast with small files, quiet, doesn't struggle with large files.
Disadvantages: May need defragging alot.

I have this drive pre installed in my computer and the first thing i realised was that it was extremely FAST; i had tested the drive on a hard drive benchmarking program called 'HDTach'. This is as on my HP'm7635', using this drive i got a burst speed of 210 MB/s and a average read rate of 70MB/s; both are extremely fast. I also realised that this drive was extremely quiet; being installed in my media cennter PC it wasn't exactly a suprise though. ...
...the context of everyday computng this hard drive is very fast, windows loads up very quickly. You can force large files down the hard drive and it wont struggle; though i still recommend that you defragmentate the drive on a regular basis for optimal speed. To expand on my statement of what fast is, i mean to say that the drive is able to handle copying of large files such as movies very quickly. The drive is also fast in seeking files from a random ... Read review