Western Digital Caviar SE WD1600AAJB 160 GB

Advantages: Fast spindle speed, large buffer, high capacity, fast data speed
Disadvantages: May need SATA interface card

...difference was incredible. Going from a single 40gb drive setup with 2mb cache, i now had two 160gb drives in a Raid setup with 8mb of cache on each! The drives themselves are fairly silent in operation, no real clunking or high pitched whines. They dont get too hot, aroud 29c average. (but i have got them in coolermaster hard drive coolers). I have had problems in the past with Seagate and fujitsu drives, but have yet to have any problems with western digital. Although i have yet to do any benchmarks, i would say the upgrade was definately worth it - not only do i now have more space to fill, but its quicker too. Definately a recomended drive - even if you dont setup a raid configuration.... Read review

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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 drive. I had no problems installing it and find it very compatible with my hardware. While using this drive i haven not come across any problems. No faliure no slow running its been great. Very easy installation. Anyone looking for a well priced good drive, this is for you.... Read review

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Advantages: Extreamly large (though in most cases unnessecery) disk space, fast!
Disadvantages: Practicality

...Okay wow 250 Gigabytes of hard disk space sounds extreamly useful and probably makes you want to buy it with out considering other factors (for me anyway..) but when you look at it you have to ask your self "How am I going to make use of all this space?" and even if you some how manage to answer that question you will have to apriechate how long it will take you to format, defrag and check for errors (despite the very fast file transfer speeds). Now there are a lot of posible disadvantages to buying such a capacity of HD storage space for the average computer user, But if your part of a buisness (home or otherwise) then this would be an ideal solution to ensure you won't ever run out of space to store important documents, programs and other nessecery examples. So my final advice would be to only purchace this if you are in REAL need... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful