Western Digital Caviar Blue 80gb Eide Udma-100 7200rpm With 8mb Buffer 80 GB ATA-100 Hard Drive (Retail Version)

Pros: Great price/Gb from a trusted manufacturer.
Cons: May be a little light in gigs depending on what you do with your PC

Disclaimer I build computers for friends and family as well as some to sell on ebay as I find parts at a reasonable price. My own PC is a Do It Yourself (DIY) that I am constantly upgrading and adding onto. As such, I have some experience ...

Pros: Quiet, high performance, 8MB cache
Cons: All 7200RPM drives get a little warm.

I'll start off with one word: Sweet. That's what I have to say about this drive. It's an exceptional hard drive, its cavernous space and great performance make it hard to beat. I got mine for about $70 after two rebates (from Circuit City), so they are...

Pros: Easy installation. Fast. Quiet
Cons: Some difficulty finding them in stock at some retailers.

I am an average installer of hardware---definitely not a professional---and this was extremely easy ...

Pros: Very fast, virtually silent, good price
Cons: None so far

I recently upgraded my Pc to a P4, and was looking for the best hard drive for a reasonable price. I first got the WD800JB and was pleasantly surprised by the incredible speed, but the drive made a very annoying whining noise event after spin-up, which...

Pros: Fastest EIDE hard drive out there, plus is really quiet!
Cons: Overkill if you're just doing simple stuff (like Word).

Western digital's "JB" series:

Western digital has been a power player in the computer storage business for many years now, and they rarely disappoint. Now, they've released "special editions" of their standard 7200RPM EIDE hard drives...

Pros: very fast, very quiet, cheap
Cons: none

First thing I want to say about this drive is it is very very very quite, At night I have this drive running next to my laptop harddrive (TOSHIB 4200R 80G), I can heard the grinding of the laptop harddrive loud and clear and not even a tiny noise out of t ...

Pros: none
Cons: Two of these drives died on me in three months!!!

I would not recommend the purchase of any western digital drive unless you are content to lose all o ...

Pros: Fast and easy to install, the lifeguard tools are very helpful.
Cons: The stores run out of them fast, follow all rebate instructions

I give this drive 5 stars, for easy installation, for being quiet and fast; not as much heat as others this size. WD has hit a homerun by adding the 8MB of cache.

Pros: Cheap and Fast
Cons: Cheap and Unreliable

I bought two of these....drives for about $0.85/Gig. The first drive worked for about 1 year before it started going bad. The other lasted for about a week before it just completely went dead.

Heat and shock were not issues, so I guess these are just poorly constructed or else I got the only two bad ones.

Pros: It is indeed a hard drive as stated on the box.
Cons: They fail often. The warranty is less than a year in practice.

Western digital warranty works like this. You buy a drive.
It fails (Western digital lowered it's warranty from 3 years
to 1 because they know they have quality problems.) You
go through the WD RMA site and get a replacement drive.
The replacements drive is a used "refurbished" drive that
only has a 90 day warranty (so much for even a year warranty).
The used drive fails. You RMA it using the same process.
When they get the refurbished broken drive they return
it saying it is out of warranty.
I buy a lot of hard drives. Western Digitals have been
failing very often. I have stopped buying them.

Pros: Cheap, big cache
Cons: unreliable

I bought this drive a few months ago, it lasted about 2 months or so till it started making a clicking noise and i could not access my data again. WD sent me a new one, and I threw it in a different machine. This drive lasted about 2 months till it started doing the clicking thing once again. I have a new one on the way..hope this one lasts at least 6 months

Pros: fast, easy install S/W, advance warranty replacement
Cons: unreliable device, warranty replacement is USED!

I also have been a long time advocate of WD HD;s.

Recently, they lowered their standards, though.

They used to offer standard 3 yr warranty; Now you have to purchase "premium" products or pay extra for the old standard 3-yr warranty.

Thats OK though, if the product still was a reliable product.... but no ... not any more ... so sad,,,

ON 1/2/04 I purchased a WD 80Gb Cavier JB drive from Circuit City.

In less than 6 weeks, this NEW HD fails.

I utilize WD's advance RMA warranty replacemnent program.
All works well, and I get the replacement HS in 7 days.

BUT ...... !!!!
They replace the BRAND NEW HD with ."RE-CERTIFIED: (aka USED). This is not right!!!

I bought a NEW WD HD; it failed in 6 weeks. And they warranty replace with a USED DRIVE?

I am not pleased and thought you might want to know.

Pros: Quiet for the most part until it is just ready to fail.
Cons: Will die under heavy use. Was using it for web applications and heavy database usage.

I have used the WD800JB hard drive for a year now. It has been riddled with problems and clicking sounds. I sent my original purchased hard drive back after it died 9 months in and received a new hard drive. Upon putting the new one in, WinXP and Unix see the drive and attempt to write to it but after a certain point fail and give up. I would try to avoid this hard drive and the company because it is not afraid to ship defective products on a RMA.

Pros: Best Value, cool Quiet
Cons: No complain by now.

Unbeatable warranty!! HDD itself works pretty cool and quiet. Being using Maxtor(4) for couple year by now. But just switch to WD after Maxtor lower their warranty period to 1 year. I have always been thinking that WD is the kind of cheap HDD makers with low quality product. But I change my mind totally after tried out the WD800JB 80GB 8MB Buffer. Compare to Maxtor, it works alot more quiet and a little bit cooler. For normal usage, I can't define which brand of HDD works faster.