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- - 21.2 oz (600 g)
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Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB internal hard drive 7200 RPM 16 MB 3.5" Parallel ATA
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Hard disk drives are today's fastest permanent storage media and have a large capacity. For this two reasons they are the most used storage medium in computers and servers. When buying a new hard disk, there are three important things to consider:
- The connection of the disk to the computer or other device you will be using it with has a big influence on the speed with which data can be read from/written to the disk. Make sure the connection of the disk you buy is compatible with your computer!
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Uk has collected 17 expert reviews for Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB internal hard drive 7200 RPM 16 MB 3.5" Parallel ATA and the average expert rating is 86 of 100. The average score reflects the expert community’s view on this product. Click below and use Uk to see all ratings, product awards and conclusions.
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goodgearguide.com.au
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2013-09-10 01:28:44 |
At 500GB, the Western Digital Caviar SE16 (WD5000AAKS) is great value for any type of computer system. Its performance makes it suitable for a high-performance PC, while its cool and quiet running makes it an ideal choice for a media centre or silent P...
Excellent performance, cool and quiet operation... 
Nothing of note The Final Word At 500GB, the Western Digital Caviar SE16 (WD5000AAKS) is great value for any type of computer system. Its performance makes it suitable for a high-performance PC, while its cool and quiet running makes it an ideal choice... 
At 500GB, the Western Digital Caviar SE16 (WD5000AAKS) is great value for any type of computer system. Its performance makes it suitable for a high-performance PC, while its cool and quiet running makes it an ideal choice for a media centre or silent P... |
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techradar.com
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2013-09-10 01:28:45 |
The Western Digital drive proves to be a most awkward drive to set up, requiring assorted jumper shenanigans to get our PC to even recognise the drive. Performancewise however, it comes out on top. At 32p per GB, its one of the best value drives weve...
Decent read speed, Great value...
Poor burst speed...
The Western Digital drive proves to be a most awkward drive to set up, requiring assorted jumper shenanigans to get our PC to even recognise the drive. Performancewise however, it comes out on top. At 32p per GB, its one of the best value drives weve... |
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techtree.com
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2013-09-10 01:28:44 |
Hard drive capacities have been reaching for the skies, while the prices have been nose-diving; even the highest-capacity drive is within reach. We got our hands on one of the hottest drives in the market today, the Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AA...
Fast, runs cool, silent, perpendicular magnetic recording technology, huge capacity, inexpensive, 5-year onsite warranty...
None...
The Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS is backed by a solid 16 MB of cache. It is good to have one big drive instead of several smaller ones; this drive boasts of fantastic performance, and is one of the best mainstream drives weve tested. "Mains... |
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ocia.net
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2013-09-10 01:28:44 |
Storage space is the new blue LED, everybody wants as much of it as they can get. I swear that in the next five years well all look back on this day and think, “WTF were we doing with spinning media? We were totally crazy!” Until then, though...
This drive performed surprisingly well, definitely due to the large cache size. Though the random access time suffered in comparison to the other two drives, this was of course due to the large capacity and, in the case of the Raptor, slower rotation... |
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SysOpt.com
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2013-09-10 01:28:44 |
Its been a while since we last took a serious look at the best bang-for-the-buck in mainstream-priced desktop hard drives. Hard drive manufacturers havent remained idle either, as all of the major players have been busily increasing performance while decr...
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Behardware.com
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2013-09-10 01:28:44 |
August 22, 2007 In our first hard drive survey a year ago, we had to plan on spending almost 300 € for a storage capacity of 500 GB. This price has since been decreased by two-thirds and now it’s no longer rare to find such a capacity for 100 € or l...
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computingondemand.com
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2013-09-10 01:28:45 |
I cant get away from it; I am just a sucker for storage. I try to keep myself away from the HDD scene because I know I will just buy everything I can afford to buy. Hard drives and Chassis are my weakness, and today Western Digital is going to smack m...
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jivemagazine.com
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2013-09-10 01:28:45 |
Most people when dreaming of building our ultimate gaming PC automatically start thinking about what graphics card we will get or what type of cooling we will have in our unit. Hard drives are considered an afterthought and some people will even just m...
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Techreport.com
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2013-09-10 01:28:45 |
TODAY, THERE ARE ESSENTIALLY two classes of 3.5" Serial ATA hard drives available to consumers: drives designed for desktops, and those targeted at the enterprise. Desktop drives make up the bulk of the market and tend to favor lower noise levels and f...
Western Digitals 500GB Caviar SE16 and RE2 have a lot in common, especially when it comes to their exceptionally well-balanced performance. Most drives tend to excel in one area of our exhaustive suite of storage benchmarks and falter in another, but... |
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hothardware.com
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If we were to play a word association game with a PC enthusiast and said "Western Digital," its likely his geek reflexes would immediately trigger and force him to reply "Raptor" before he even realized he had spoken. Western Digital makes many more stora...
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maximumpc.com
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2013-09-10 01:28:45 |
This month, WD joins the 500GB party with its Caviar SE 16 drive. Because the 400GB model is already our favorite 7,200rpm drive, we expected big things from its four-platter successor—and we were mostly satisfied. The drive runs on a SATA 3G interface...
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silentpcreview.com
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2013-09-10 01:28:46 |
we expect great things of them.
For once, a hard drive has lived up to its marketing claims. The 500 GB Caviar SE16 is the quietest 3.5" desktop drive that we know of on the market today. Not only is it quieter than all of the other high capacity drives that weve looked at, it also... |
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game-boyz.com
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2013-09-10 01:28:46 |
Bigger is Better In this every increasing world of data hungry software and apps, the old 50 gig drive, which a couple of years ago would be considered mammoth in portions, just doesnt cut it. Multimedia Apps, 3D games, DVD burners and home movies can...
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barefeats.com
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2013-09-10 01:28:46 |
Updated March 9th, 2006, with Raptor 10K 150GB resultsUpdated March 10th, 2006, with WD5000KS 500GB results The new "darlings" of the storage community are the "half-terabyte" Serial ATA II (300 gigabit/sec) hard drives. In this evolving article, we c...
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