Buy it now Western Digital 160 GB Caviar Blue SATA 7200 RPM 8 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive WD1600AAJS
Band : Western Digital
Model : WD1600AAJS
Product Features :
- Ships in Certified Frustration Free Packaging
- WD Caviar Blue hard drives are available with either SATA or EIDE interface in a variety of cache sizes with a multitude of available features
- Whisper Drive technology minimizes noise to levels near the threshold of human hearing
- IntelliSeek Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption noise and vibration
>> 20 days and dead
I installed this hdd in a new build On the second day of operation I started getting a s m a r t warning that the drive was dying I ran down to Wal mart and picked up an external drive for backup just in case Last night just as I finished a multiple page essay for a graduate class it failed completely Now my system is down I can t access my back up material until I get a new drive for the box and I have to rewrite the paper for my class with a 5 grade reduction due to being late Amazon is being great about sending a replacement hdd but my opinion of WD is not as good as it was this time yesterday At least I do have a backup
>> Easy cheap storage
This hard drive is great Fast 7200rpm speed and large storage Good bang for the buck
>> high failure rate
While I didn t purchase these drives from Amazon I thought I would pass along my experience in the event it helps others make an informed decision Our company recently performed a tech refresh on a little under 1000 computers About half of the new computers have this Western Digital hard drive the other half have a Seagate Barracuda 160 GB SATA drive Within a month of the new computers being deployed we are getting an average of 3 failed hard drives a week all are the Western Digital 160 GB model WD1600AAJS The numbers seem too great to be the expected infant mortality rate for new hardware one might expect from / 500 new computers All failures are being quickly replaced by the manufacturer since they are under warranty but the amount of dead hard drives showing up on a regular basis has made me very wary of this model BTW no failed Seagate drives have been reported thus far
