This Western Digital WD800JD Internal Hard drive was one of my best computing buys.
I bought it boxed and unopened from eBay for £20, and other listings of the same item were of a similar price, £20 for 80 GB, which works out £1 for 4GB, which is pretty cheap.
It came in perfect condition, with easy instructions to follow if you didn't already know what you are doing, when going to install it, it was a simple case of screwing it to the Bay and plugging in the Power and SATA cables and then booting the PC. It required no BIOS editing and no formatting.
I installed Vista Ultimate on it fine, and within an hour of getting it, I was downloading the Ultmate Updates, I have yet to have any problems with it, it is quiet,fast (150 MBps) and has good cache(8 MB).
The Drive is a nice small size (dimension wise) 10.1 x 14.7 x 2.5 cm and only weighs 0.6 KG. It has a SATA-150 (Serial ATA) Interface type, not the old and harder to use IDE interface, which makes it even easier to install because it doesn't require editing the Drive Jumper.
The only problem is that nowadays an 80GB HDD cannot store that much, but this isn't a criticism, I could have just bought a larger one of the same series if I had the money to spare.
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Design
Excellent
Ease of use
Very easy
Instruction manual
Very useful
Manufacturer Support
Satisfactory
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