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Pros & Cons
Cons
This pos goes back. It was found to be defective and did not work. Would return for refund but need for a project.
All of the warranties were expired by a factor of 7 months upon purchase. Please contact your distributor or place of purchase. On top of that their rma process is really poor.
The description deceptively insinuates that the product is sold by western digital and is warranted for 5 years. Western digital site says oem product (which their site says this is for the sn) not covered under their warranty. These are not new, and ... Read More
Highlights
Quality
Excellent speeds running 2 in windows storage spaces (software raid 0)
10 years old and still going strong.
I cloned this from another 750 gb drive that came with my laptop and was in the process of dying.
Most importantly these are cmr devices not not new smr.
Price
I primarily buy 500gb disks because they are big enough to be useful & still have a pretty good price per byte.
This is the opposite of buying old used laptop disks for backups)i buy used 500gb disks when they are below $15 delivered.
Was a total bargain for this type performance hdd.
I read many reviews and was a little concerned about many saying that they seemed used and others were doa but the price on sal... Read More
Shipping
The drive arrived in a timely manner and worked as expected after install.
Runs fast, even faster than the ssd that came in my computer.
Packaging/appearance
Luckily package arrived and looked new and unopened, installation and setup was easy and everything is working good so far (for... Read More
Competitiveness
I have run this drive for over 100 hours and expect it to last longer than the hitachi hgst drives in my laptop that have faile... Read More
)performance is not much more impressive compared to other drives of the era, but it is faster than wd blue.
Overview
- How are reviewers describing this item?
good, fast, new, old and great. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 4,180 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 27 2025.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Same as my wd green 500gb drive
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I probably should replace them now
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Was refurbished and not labeled as so
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I had to trouble shoot through a few different partition programs to delete and recreate a partition on it before i could get it working windows just didnt want to let me but for the most part installation was pretty easy
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
There is no warranty beyond amazons return policy whatever the seller provides
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Important i recommend that for most things especially games you should just get an ssd not bother with mechanical hdds ssds are much faster unless priceperbyte or longevity beyond 2years are what matters
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This is the opposite of buying old used laptop disks for backupsi buy used 500gb disks when they are below 15 delivered
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