Western Digital Caviar Blue 500 GB SATA III 7200 RPM 16 MB Cache

Western Digital Caviar Blue 500 GB SATA III 7200 RPM 16 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive - WD5000AAKX

Regular Price: $99.99 |

Got a Question for me? Powered by Aol.com   Product Details WD Caviar Blue hard drives have a multitude of features to deliver rock solid performance and ultra-cool and quiet operation 3rd generation SATA interface for 6 GB/s maximum data transfer rates. 500 GB capacity holds up to 100,000 digital photos, 125,000 MP3 files, and 60 hours of HD video 500 GB capacity holds up to 100,000 digital photos, 125,000 MP3 files, and 60 hours of HD video. WD Caviar Blue hard drives have a multitude of features to deliver rock solid performance and ultra-cool and quiet operation. 3rd generation SATA interface for 6 GB/s maximum data transfer rates Ships in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging WhisperDrive technology minimizes noise to levels near the threshold of human hearing. Dear visitor! This website has been designed to help you find THE BEST PRICE. When you are ready to buy, your payment will be processed through one of the most TRUSTED SUPPLIERS directly. Thank you for shopping with us!

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Fast, quiet, solid
My use for these drives is to replace a couple of aging five year old 80GB drives in Windows XP and XP Media Center machines. Those drives are still running fine, however, for the price, I had absolutely no reason not to upgrade them at this time.I came across this drive middle of last week and Amazon was selling it new for $29 - I was scratching my head thinking "what's the deal" and "what's wrong with these drives"? Sure, even though they were above $25, Amazon was still charging for the shipping - so I took two to bring the per drive shipping down slightly. The old 3Gb version of this drive was selling for over $40 - so again, scratching my head about this. Maybe it was a pricing mistake? Whatever - it was a great price.The drives arrived yesterday, same standard OEM packaging all of my six other WD drives have come in over the past 9 months. I used Clonezilla to clone the old drives on to the new, it went smoothly without any issues. I'm storing the old...
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February 20, 2011 (NJ) | Helpful Votes: 39 | Rating: 5

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Western Digital 500 GB Sata 6.0 Gb-s 16 MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare-oem Drives WD5000AAKX Top to learn more

WD Blue 1T Drive - So far so good.
I purchased the Western Digital 1 Tb Sata 6.0 Gb-s 32 MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare-oem Drive WD10EALX from Midwest Memory Outlet through Amazon. The drive was received within 3 or 4 days and was packaged extremely well. My original Seagate drive from my HP m9550F failed and was replace by the WD. The Seagate was the drive that HP kept shipping after a drive bios error was long known about. Information from the internet showed that lots of people lost valuable data because HP just kept shipping a drive with a known problem. Anyhow, I did get a bios update for the Seagate before it failed but it ended up failing anyhow.The WD10EALX drive is fairly loud. I still have the drive located outside the case so that may contribute to the sound level. The noise seems to be from the head movement. The platter spin is silent. For the price this is one drive that is hard to beat and I am well pleased with it. My bios can't take advantage of the 6 Gb/s transfer rate but the drive is...
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April 27, 2011 (Kingsport, TN USA) | Helpful Votes: 29 | Rating: 4

Western Digital 1 TB Caviar Blue SATA III 7200 RPM 32 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive - WD10EALX

Regular Price: $149.99 |

Got a Question for me? Powered by Aol.com   Product Details 1 TB capacity holds up to 200,000 digital photos, 250,000 MP3 files, and 120 hours of HD video. 3rd generation SATA interface for 6 GB/s maximum data transfer rates. Ships in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging WD Caviar Blue hard drives have a multitude of features to deliver rock solid performance and ultra-cool and quiet operation. WhisperDrive technology minimizes noise to levels near the threshold of human hearing. Dear visitor! This website has been designed to help you find THE BEST PRICE. When you are ready to buy, your payment will be processed through one of the most TRUSTED SUPPLIERS directly. Thank you for shopping with us!

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Fast, quiet, solid
My use for these drives is to replace a couple of aging five year old 80GB drives in Windows XP and XP Media Center machines. Those drives are still running fine, however, for the price, I had absolutely no reason not to upgrade them at this time.I came across this drive middle of last week and Amazon was selling it new for $29 - I was scratching my head thinking "what's the deal" and "what's wrong with these drives"? Sure, even though they were above $25, Amazon was still charging for the shipping - so I took two to bring the per drive shipping down slightly. The old 3Gb version of this drive was selling for over $40 - so again, scratching my head about this. Maybe it was a pricing mistake? Whatever - it was a great price.The drives arrived yesterday, same standard OEM packaging all of my six other WD drives have come in over the past 9 months. I used Clonezilla to clone the old drives on to the new, it went smoothly without any issues. I'm storing the old...
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February 20, 2011 (NJ) | Helpful Votes: 39 | Rating: 5

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Wd caviar blue hard drives are available with sata 6 gb/s interface built to deliver rock solid performance and ultra-cool and quiet operation. with capacities ranging from 250 gb to 1 tb, these drives are the perfect solution for family and business computing. Top to learn more

WD Blue 1T Drive - So far so good.
I purchased the Western Digital 1 Tb Sata 6.0 Gb-s 32 MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare-oem Drive WD10EALX from Midwest Memory Outlet through Amazon. The drive was received within 3 or 4 days and was packaged extremely well. My original Seagate drive from my HP m9550F failed and was replace by the WD. The Seagate was the drive that HP kept shipping after a drive bios error was long known about. Information from the internet showed that lots of people lost valuable data because HP just kept shipping a drive with a known problem. Anyhow, I did get a bios update for the Seagate before it failed but it ended up failing anyhow.The WD10EALX drive is fairly loud. I still have the drive located outside the case so that may contribute to the sound level. The noise seems to be from the head movement. The platter spin is silent. For the price this is one drive that is hard to beat and I am well pleased with it. My bios can't take advantage of the 6 Gb/s transfer rate but the drive is...
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April 27, 2011 (Kingsport, TN USA) | Helpful Votes: 29 | Rating: 4

Mediasonic HF2-SU3S2 ProBox 4 Bay Hard Drive Enclosure with USB 3.0 & eSATA

Regular Price: $169.71 |

Got a Question for me? Powered by Aol.com   Product Details Power off in synchronization with PC eSATA interface requires Port Multiplier w/FIS-based switching on main computer to enable access to multiple HDDs simultaneously Smart Fan comes with auto and manual modes, and three levels of speed for best convention Supports all brands of 3.5" SATA I/II/III hard disk drive up to 3TB per drive Switch USB 3.0 or eSATA interface by pressing one button; transfer rate of up to 5.0Gbps via USB 3.0, up to 3.0Gbps via eSATA Dear visitor! This website has been designed to help you find THE BEST PRICE. When you are ready to buy, your payment will be processed through one of the most TRUSTED SUPPLIERS directly. Thank you for shopping with us!

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This thing ROCKS! Practically Plug-N-Play!
Very easy to use. Just plug the hard drives in and turn in on. BE SURE to set the switch to the proper connection (USB or eSata) or else the drive enclosure shuts down. This is due to the PowerSync feature. For example, if you are connecting via eSata and the switch is set to USB (default), then the device will detect no power going through USB and shutdown. Apparantely, the other person who gave this item a negative review didn't realise this.I'm using the Mediasonic HF2-SU3S2 on a PC running Vista, which is connected to a Rosewill RC-219 PCI Express eSata SATA II Controller Card ([...]Only cons I have, though nothing major is:1. Power connection is on the side, not the back2. Takes a few seconds for each drive to power up and be recognized.I'm planning to buy another enclosure for another PC.Note: According to the documentation, USB 3.0 connections is backware compatible with USB 1.1 & USB 2.0.
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October 21, 2010 (Highlands Ranch, CO United States) | Helpful Votes: 44 | Rating: 5

Reliable and Inexpensive
This product is a great addition to anyone interested in consolidating their hard drives. The backwards compatible usb 2.0 port works fine on all of my PCs and on Macs that I've tested it on. It's very easy to set-up (< 5 min) But be sure to read the setup card provided (note: USB 3.0 cable provided with case).Pros: Put 4 x 2TB harddrives in case and they were instantly accessible on Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 7 Ultimate, Ubuntu 10.10, and Snow Leopard.Cons: None so far. (This is the second one I am buying)
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November 14, 2010 | Helpful Votes: 24 | Rating: 5

Exactly what I was looking for
Easily handles my 4 x 2TB drives on eSATA and USB3.0. I tested both interfaces and getting over 100MB/sec sustained reads on both interfaces! I am using this for a Windows Home Server (WHS) and it is perfect since it does not do RAID, so that I can let WHS handle folder duplication instead. I intend to buy another one of these to expand my WHS capacity in the near future.This is one of the few enclosures I could find that does not come with some kind of crappy (as in low-end) built-in RAID controller. When using in WHS, it is preferable to *not* use RAID and to let WHS do its folder duplication, so this is perfect and cheap for that purpose. Make sure your eSATA ports can handle a port multiplier or you will only see one drive or none.Cons:None so far. Documentation was a little weak, but not hard to figure out.I did think it was broken at one point because its default setting is to power down if it does not detect a connection to...
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October 18, 2010 | Helpful Votes: 20 | Rating: 5

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Mediasonic HF2-SU3S2 Pro Box is a 4 Bay Enclosure for 3.5" SATA I / II / III hard disk drive. It supports 4 hdd of different brand and capacity up to 3TB per drive. Note: Motherboard's SATA port MUST support Port Multiplier in order for your computer to recognize multiple hard drive if the unit is connected via eSATA. Top to learn more

TowerSTOR TS2CT - 2 Bay SATA to USB 2.0 / eSATA / 1394a / 1394b RAID Enclosure

Regular Price: $231.65 | Price with discount: $175.00 | You Save: $56.65 (24%)

Got a Question for me? Powered by Aol.com   Product Details 2 bay Hardware RAID enclosure support RAID 1 or RAID 0 Control Interface: LCD or RAID Switch Quad Host Interfaces: USB 2.0, eSATA, Firewire 400 and Firewire 800 Features two RAID modes, including RAID 0 or RAID 1 for redundancy or performance. LCD display for RAID management and monitor system status. Form Factor: Compact Tower Maximum Capacity: 6TB Hardware RAID embedded to the enclosure to elminate OS compatibility issues Dear visitor! This website has been designed to help you find THE BEST PRICE. When you are ready to buy, your payment will be processed through one of the most TRUSTED SUPPLIERS directly. Thank you for shopping with us!

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Great enclosure
This enclosure is well made and has all the connections you could want, USB, FW400/800, and eSATA. It was very easy to install and format the drives. I'm running two 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F3s in RAID 1, so far works great. You can easily choose between RAID 0 and 1 by setting the DIP switch on the back. I like the design of the enclosure also, sturdy and looks sleek and modern. This enclosure is all metal, no plastic, which will help with cooling. The small fan inside isn't too loud and does a great job of cooling the drives. After leaving the drives on all day, the enclosure is still about room temperature to the touch. You can set the fan to low, high, automatic, or off. The menus on the LCD screen are fairly easy to navigate. Overall a great product at a reasonable price.
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July 18, 2010 (SoCal) | Helpful Votes: 8 | Rating: 5

Easy to set up and use and FAST
This enclosure almost took more time to unpack than to install two disks and create a Raid 0 scratch disk. The things I noticed as soon as I opened the box were the quality of the unit's fit/finish, the power supply and cables. After installing two 1TB drives, I connected it to my Mac Pro with the Firewire 800 connection and powered the enclosure on. Both disks (from a previous mirrored array) were recognized immediately, the front panel prompted me for type of Raid desired (0 or 1) and after I selected 0, the striped volume was created and ready for initialization on the Mac in less than a minute. Display offers all the info on the system and drives I need. Fan is on all the time, but at relatively low RPM (3300), and the fan noise is masked by the drives anyway. After rebooting everything and connecting via eSATA, I set up the disk as the scratch disk for an editing session in Final Cut Express. Excellent performance, and after thrashing on the drives for a couple hours,...
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August 27, 2010 (CA- S.F. Bay Area) | Helpful Votes: 7 | Rating: 5

Awesome!
Okay, let me bring you up to speed on my situation. My first reason for getting an external drive was to have a back up. I then decided that a dual drive (non-RAID) would allow me to have a time machine drive and a clone drive. So, I got an OWC Mercury Pro AL enclosure and two 750GB drives. That was more than enough since my Mac is only 500GB. Everything had been great for over a year and a half now. Well my iphoto file is like a weed being feed plant food. I am up to almost 100GB for iphoto alone and growing. I don't know about most people but, my iphoto file is one if not the most important file on my drive. So off to get another external drive enclosure (I say enclosure, because why would you let someone else pick your hard drive for you. It is very rare that you will get the best drive) for iphoto. The best solution was RAID 1 mirror. I don't understand why more people don't use RAID 1 for iphoto. Putting all your photos on a single drive and it fails, oops! Can you recover...
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May 6, 2011 | Helpful Votes: 5 | Rating: 5

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The TowerSTOR TS2CT is a hardware RAID embedded enclosure providing high performance storage for creative professional with 180MB/s. The embedded Hardware RAID design provides offload of complex RAID calculation from the computer to the unit, allowing high perfromance throughput to eSATA and Firewire 800. Popular USB 2.0 and Firewire 400 provide easy connection to various computer operating system. Since RAID engine is embeded inside of the enclosure, there is no OS compatibilty issues. With support of RAID 0 and RAID 1, TS2CT allows user to choose from fast performance on RAID 0 or hard drive redundancy protection on RAID 1. It is easy to read LCD display and allows user to manage and monitor the RAID system status in a easy to read format. With adjustable cooling fan design, and high performance transfer rate to support various audio and video editing problems, TS2CT is the ideal storage tower for high-end computing. Top to learn more

HighPoint RocketRAID 2720SGL 8-Port PCI-Express 2.0 x8 SAS/SATA RAID Controller

Regular Price: $182.52 |

Got a Question for me? Powered by Aol.com   Product Details 6Gb/s (600MB/s) data transfer rate Low Profile RAID level 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 and JBOD Major OS support includes Windows, Linux, Free BSD and Mac OS X 10.7x Lion (only for RocketRAID 2722 and 2744) 2 Internal Mini-SAS ports PCI-Express 2.0 x8 Dear visitor! This website has been designed to help you find THE BEST PRICE. When you are ready to buy, your payment will be processed through one of the most TRUSTED SUPPLIERS directly. Thank you for shopping with us!

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Great Value
Great value here - can't think of anything else in this price range that offers this type of RAID support (0, 1, 5, 6, 10), port count (8) and PCI-E 2.0. I purchased this to upgrade a general-use server (Win2008) for a set of WD RE4 already on hand. 8-ports for sub-$200 - this thing is a bargain, and leaves lots of room for expansion. The negative reviews here raised no major concerns (common, general controller issues - easy to avoid). I'm not new to RAID, and this controller is based on existing product lines - no surprises, aside from RAID 6.InstallationStandard and simple enough - physically install the card, boot the system and allow the card's BIOS to post and pass, then install the driver when prompted by Windows (on the included CD, though I recommend downloading the current driver and Web interface, which now has RAID 6 support). No setup utility is needed - Device Manager was able to easily locate the driver. Installing the Web Interface is simple...
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September 28, 2011 (Phoenix, AZ, USA) | Helpful Votes: 13 | Rating: 5

Great card for the price
Got this card for $119, very low cost knowing that you need at least one or two SFF-8087 Forward Breakout cables to connect from SAS to SATA your drives which run between $15 to $35 each.As soon as I got the card I downloaded the new firmware 1.2 which grants you access to RAID 6, latest web interface (2.x) and drivers. I'm using Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition and the card and drives are recognized perfectly.I'm running 4*500GB Samsung F3 in RAID 5, I get 280MB Read/Write and 4*640GB WD in RAID 5, I get 230MB Write and 280 Read which I guess is pretty good.The new web interface is pretty good and snappy compared to the former one which was buggy (as I was told) and setting the RAID array was easy. By default the foreground initialization is set. As I'm not patient, I set the quick initialization which takes a couple of second to prepare your drives. Looks like the Quick Format option in Windows vs Format which takes for ever.The...
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January 10, 2012 | Helpful Votes: 5 | Rating: 5

Absolute bargain RAID 6 controller!
Perfect for general Windows-based servers - capacity and security are usually more important than performance, but the 6G SAS support doesn't hurt.I'm not new to RAID (or highpoint) controllers, so I was sure to pick this up sooner or later. Not disappointed!The RAID 5 and 6 performance was surprising considering it lacks a BBU/memory option like some of HighPoint's other RAID controllers (I have used their 4300 series for several years).RAID 6 appears to be a new feature for this series, and it doesn't support it out of the box (at least not what I was shipped). If you are interested (of course, right!) be sure to the download the updates from the product page.Their driver support is also better than expected (all major Windows releases, and it appears to support many Linux dist.).I haven't contacted their support dept. for this model, but have had no major problems with them in the past. Broken record here (read the other reviews) but I...
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December 7, 2011 | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 5

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RocketRAID 6Gb/s PCI-Express Gen 2x8 SAS/SATA RAID Host Adapter; The simplified SGL package reduces up-front costs and provides Solution Providers with the freedom they need to configure storage platforms that meet clients' exact specifications. Top to learn more

OCZ  60GB Agility 3 SATA 6Gb/s 2.5-Inch Midrange Performance Solid State Drive (SSD) with Max 525MB/s Read and  Max 4KB Write 80K IOPS- AGT3-25SAT3-60G

Regular Price: $229.99 |

Got a Question for me? Powered by Aol.com   Product Details Max Read: up to 525MB/s, Max Write: up to 280 MB/s, 4KB Random Write: 50,000 I/O Per Second (IOPS), Controller: SandForce 2281 Interface: SATA III/6Gbps (Backwards compatible with SATA II/3Gbps, but optimized for SATA 6Gbps, Form Factor: 2.5 inches Life Expectancy: 2 million hours Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF), NAND Components: Multi-Level Cell (MLC), ECC Recovery: Up to 55 bits correctable per 512-byte sector (BCH) *varies depending on exact configuration, Certifications: RoHs, CE, FCC Dear visitor! This website has been designed to help you find THE BEST PRICE. When you are ready to buy, your payment will be processed through one of the most TRUSTED SUPPLIERS directly. Thank you for shopping with us!

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OCZ Agility 3 SATA III Sold State Drives are designed and built to provide and exceptional balance of performance and value. The Agility 3 Series implements the cutting-edge SATA 6Gbps interface to deliver excellent sequential and random data transfer rates, significantly improving your gaming, multimedia, and overall computing experience over traditional mechanical hard drives. In addition to enhanced productivity, an Agility 3 upgrade makes a hard drive-equipped notebook more portable than ever with superior durability and reduced power consumption. Using the latest breakthrough controller technology, Agility 3 SSDs work in perfect harmony with next generation platforms and operating systems to deliver a one-of-a-kind storage solution. Top to learn more

Possibly a poor choice for mid-2010 MacBook Pro
I had a horrific time getting this drive to work as a replacement in my mid-2010 MacBook Pro (MC375LL/A), but ironically, I only experienced issues under Mac OS X (Snow Leopard and Lion). While the installers for Snow Leopard and Lion and their respective Disk Utility applications both failed to recognize the existence of my new hard drive altogether when booted directly from DVD, the installer for Windows 7 happily recognized the drive right from the get-go and threw itself onto it. I managed to get Mac OS X Lion installed on the new drive by popping my old hard drive into a USB enclosure, booting Mac OS X Lion from the old hard drive by holding down Option at power-up, and running the Mac OS X Lion installer from there, pointing it at the new drive; I never could get this method to work with Snow Leopard. Once up and running, however, it was all but reliable with constant beach-balling, even under little to no CPU load, that required a hard power-off to escape from each time it...
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August 14, 2011 (Seattle, WA) | Helpful Votes: 30 | Rating: 3