Conrad WD HDD 500GB SATA 3,5" WD5000AAKS 500 GB SATA Hard Drive

Pros: Pretty quick, cheap price
Cons: Can get a bit hot, failed once (the one inside my external drive)

With 500GB hard drives still the sweet spot for the best price/size ratio, it's been a very long time since hard drive prices had any dramatic changes in price. So with that, I went ahead and did a quick search around and decided to purchase from a ...

Pros: Inexpensive way to get a fast, reliable hard drive to supplement or be primary storage.
Cons: You need to be or become SATA or SATA II compatible.

Once upon a time, a man nicknamed Mongo had an 80GB SATA internal hard drive that came stock in his trusty, antique < b>Dell Dimension 4700 PC Desktop . Not so quickly, it became full to the point where virtual ...

Pros: Quiet. Fast in RAID 0. Very inexpensive. Huge capacity.
Cons: Ordinary seek times per disk.

I'm building a new system and wanted to make it as fast as I could out of the gate, so I got a WD1500ADFD 10,000-rpm SATA 150 drive because I wanted to see how the extremely low seek-times affected the feeling of speed. It was fast, no doubt, even ...

Pros: Price, performance, customer service
Cons: larger drives are avaiable for only a bit more money

I just recently purchased this drive and found it to be an excellent choice for people who want big storage capacity for a relatively small amount of money. On the whole, the unit work quickly and quietly, so I have been very happy with its performance since installing it.

I did have a few problems getting my drive installed (not with the drive, but with my system) which required me to contact the customer support line. The people I spoke to were extremely helpful and made sure I got exactly the help I needed, even over the course of several phone calls.

Overall, I have been very happy with my drive and will not hesitate purchase another product from Western Digital in the future.