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Western Digital Caviar Green WD5000AADS
7.9 out of 10

Western Digital Caviar Green WD5000AADS

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Reviews and Problems with Western Digital Caviar Green WD5000AADS

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Overall 10
10

Happy

Jcrooks75, Amazon
19 March 2013
  • Summary: This was a great replacement for my crashed hard drive in my HP touchsmart. I loved the price, I'm even using it right now.
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Overall 10
10

right on time

Joe, Amazon
30 January 2013
  • Summary: Have used this drive in three machines now.. It has a setting to slow it down to Sata 1.5.. a bonus in older machines.. but will also run at the full rated speed.
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Overall 6
6.0

Sent the Wrong Drive

PCGeek-NK, Amazon
28 December 2012
  • Summary: I am using this drive with my actual W5000AADS in a RAID 1 array. The 2 put together perform pretty good for being the WD Green Drives.
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Overall 2
2.0

Horrible!

Jonathan Dlouhy, Amazon
27 June 2012
  • Summary: I bought this drive for a new Windows 7 install. It is deathly slow. Fortunately I had a spare Seagate 7200 RPM drive lying around which works great.
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Overall 10
10

Replacement for server drive

Fuzzy Jones, Amazon
2 May 2012
  • Summary: We needed a replacement drive similar for a server with RAID and got this WD. Worked great, not a dud, and OEM packaging was sufficient.
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Overall 10
10

Good deal

R. Young, Amazon
26 April 2012
  • Summary: Needed a drive quick and this fit the bill. I would buy again from this vendor if the situation arose again
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Overall 2
2.0

Poor Drive

Pegsat, Amazon
31 October 2011
  • Summary: I seem to have trouble with Wesrn Digital drives. I looked at the reviews before buying this one. Now I question WD good reviews because this green drive is already...
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Overall 10
10

drive

C. Mitch "chaz", Amazon
22 October 2011
  • Summary: The drive arrived ok even though the packing was a little skimpy. I had no trouble installig it and copying my files tl it
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Overall 10
10

I recommend this HDD.

Esteban, Amazon
15 August 2011
  • Summary: Perfect speed! Silent! No problems when partitioning it! I am very happy with this HDD. Have it partitioned it with dual boot for various OS.
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Overall 2
2.0

Burned out right after warranty expired

D. LaFontaine "Rex Luscus", Amazon
4 March 2011
  • Summary: Wish I could recommend this drive - but after the initial period in my NAS, it started showing errors.
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