WD5000AAKB Western, Does the job
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Does the job
This drive is exactly as advertised. It is a bare drive, no cables or mounting gear included (although you probably don’t need either). It does not include instructions either; so you should know what you are doing if you are buying this hardware. It is an excellent choice for an older computer.
Update (9/3/2010): I also found some auctions for this item here.
The featured review for this product, Western Digital 500 GB ATA100 7200rpm 16 MB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive WD5000AAKB Caviar Blue Electronics, was written by C. Coppinger.
The average rating for this item is out of 5 stars, according to 3 reviews.
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Tags: 500gb, eide, hard drive, harddrive, internal, internal hard drive, internal hard drives, pata, pata disks
Posted on: May 26, 2010
Filed under: Reviews

Reviews (3)
C. Coppinger
April 16th, 2010 at 9:23 am
Does the job
Rated 5 stars.
Jessie S. Murray
April 22nd, 2010 at 1:18 am
BEST IDE DRIVE OUT NOW!!!
This IDE HD is a MONSTER!!! i run DualBoot Xp/Vista….i had no problem installin either of the two OS’s with original disks….i split the HD 186gb XP/279gb Vista (usable space after format)!!!! It boots up just fine either or system…XP is under a snap of a finger n programs r loaded, scored a 5.8 in Vista!!!! My old 150gb HD only scored a 4.5 in Vista and this one is much more noticibly Faster!!!! It is also about 15-20F cooler on temps..my average case temp doesn’t hit above 103F/40c now….before i would see about 119F average with gamin high at 165F, nuttin over 140F gaming wit new set of these HD’s from WesternDigital!!! They are quieter then the last set of Hard Drives i had which were Seagate Baracudas 150-IDE/250-SATA!! I run wit only the best in da business….WD has my vote!!!
PC Specs:
ASUS A8N32SLI-Deluxe
AMD64 4400X2 OC @ 2.62ghz
4gb CORSAIR XMS3200
2x 9800GT BFG OCX 512mb Vid SLi
500gb MAIN WesternDigital IDE
1TB XTRA WesternDigital SATA
Xfinity ULTRA 600w P.S.
22x DVD-RW
6x Blu-Ray
Joel Pea
April 28th, 2010 at 10:15 am
Good Performance/Speed
I bought this drive seven months ago and I use it as a USB storage, I use it every day for data storage and never had any problems, I plan to go to 1TB next month.
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