WD AV-GP 500 GB AV Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, SATA II, 32 MB Cache (WD5000AVDS) (Old Model)

Analyzed on

1,172Total Reviews

Internal Hard Drives

B

Company Review Grade:

Brand: WD

27 Total Products

Download Fakespot for Browsers

Download for the Chrome Web store

Download for Firefox Addons

Download Fakespot for Mobile

Download for iOS

Download for Android

Download for firefox

Download for safari

WD AV-GP 500 GB AV Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, SATA II, 32 MB Cache (WD5000AVDS) (Old Model)

Analyzed on

Sold by Brand: WD

A

Fakespot review grade

A

This analysis is outdated. Please reanalyze.

Ask Fakespot Chat questions about this productAlpha

Initializing Fakespot Chat

System error,

Loading suggested questions

Suggested Questions

No suggested questions were found

Please note: The content is generated by an AI language model based on reviews. We are constantly improving the accuracy, however, its outputs may contain errors or offensive content from certain reviews. Please report any errors or offensive content to us. Also, please note that we will not collect your questions unless you click the thumbs up/down button to provide feedback. The answers displayed will be stored by us so if another Fakespotter asks a similar question we can provide them an answer faster. Your feedback will only help us make Fakespot Chat better! By using Fakespot Chat, you agree to Fakespot's terms of use and privacy notice.

Pros & Cons

Update Pros and Cons

The AI used to provide these results are constantly improving. These results might change.

pros

See Details

pros

Features with many positive mentions

See Details

Value For Money

Customers are very satisfied with the value for money they received from purchasing this WD AV-GP 500 GB AV Hard Drive. They have expressed their happiness with both the product and the price, some even going as far as to purchase multiple units due to the affordability.

Easy Installation

Customers have reported that installing the WD AV-GP 500 GB AV Hard Drive is an easy process. The majority of users have had no issues with installation, praising its simple plug-and-play functionality. Some customers have even mentioned using it as a replacement for their security systems and surveillance DVRs, with great success.

neutral

See Details

neutral

Frequently mentioned features with split sentiment

See Details

Quiet Operation

Customers generally find the WD AV-GP 500 GB AV Hard Drive quiet during operation, but some have reported issues with its functionality when used in security systems. While most users are satisfied with its speed, a few encountered problems with the drives they received being previously used or not compatible with their DVRs, resulting in limited usable space and recording issues.

Was this feature helpful?

Highlights

The AI used to provide these results are constantly improving. These results might change.

Quality

Perfect size, brand new, easy to install.

It will run windows 10, just a little slow, you do need pretty good specs to get a good experience, though, but it's quieter th... Read More

Furthermore, my dvrs have a "600 title list limit" and my 1 tb drives all still have free space on them that i cannot use.

Manufacture date older than the one it replaced!

Price

Ordered one and then two more because of the low price for (old technology but new devices that work great!

The 1 tb drives i've bought are a good value for the price, but the "title lists" on my dvrs gets too long to easily manage.

Shipping

Shipped on time, exactly what was described.

Did not take long to arrive, it's exactly what i needed.

Overview

How are reviewers describing this item?
great, good, new, easy and old.

Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.

Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.

This product had a total of 1,172 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 9 2024.