New Western Digital RE4 WD5003ABYX 500GB SATA2 7200rpm 64MB Enterprise Hard Drive 3.5 Inch

I purchased two of these drives to increase storage on two older SATA II capable desktop computers. These drives are high quality and quiet. I've had them for about 8 months now and no problems with either of them. Western Digital has always been my favorite brand of hard drive.

It's a silent Hard Drive with good speed. It's been years I only use Seagate Barracuda for many Computers I bought and upgrade, I think I choose it because its name sounds very strong. First time I bought WD hard drive is for my brother in law. I installed it and runs very good. I recommend this Westerd Digital for everyone.

I used these drives to replace some 500GB drives in an older (4 years approximately) LeftHand SAN. I lifted the serial numbers off of the LeftHand SAN drive and many of them were these Western Digital RE4 serial numbers. They have worked great for a SAN that we just use for basic Research and Development versus Production data.The drives work great and I haven't had a failure yet. I got these because I needed a drive I could get sent overnight with Prime shipping to get a filed RAID rebuilt.

I bought 2 of these, and the first thing I did was power each up and check the SMART data. All was clear, in fact the power on cycles showed that I was the first to power them up.They are incredibly quiet, and 2x faster than my old SATA 1 drives they replaced, as expected.I have them in a Linux RAID-0 setup, on an old Asus SATA 2 motherboard, and I can get over 250MB/sec write speed with null data, 190MB/sec read with random data, and 83MB/sec copy with random data.I also got the 2 year warranty for $2.50. These are worth every penny, especially knowing their 1.2 million hour MTBF.

All drives were packaged rather poorly in new static bags. 1 was not even WD, it was a Dell. 1 was labeled "Recertified" and had broken plastic around the connectors, and 1 was a WD but had no regular label, but instead referenced "IBM". I had a few installed and RAID rebuilt before the Dell raised my concern. The 3 installed have not been rechecked but ARE working fine at this time. And the other 4 appeared to be labeled correctly, though packaged poorly. I have a total of 6 installed and those seem to be working fine, no noise... I did note that the packages were not sealed well and ALL were the same type and seal of package regardless of whether possibly "new" or "recertified" or "Dell"... all the same...

This drive was shipped in a bubble-lined bag through UPS. I knew it didn't have much of a chance, but I decided to give it a try anyways. Needless to say, the drive ended up being broken. It fails all of its SMART tests. It 'works', but the life expectancy is low. I have since returned it, opting instead to buy a different drive (which I received in TWO boxes).

I ordered and installed the enterprise hard drive in a 2008 iMac (my backup iMac). I am extremely happy with the speed of this hard drive. It is the fastest disc type hard drive I have ever installed, tested or used (125 to 130 mbps read and write speeds as tested with "Black Magic speed tester and ATTOS). Fantastic hardware. Thanks.

This item is NOT new. The Seller has wiped smart data to show the drive is brand new. However there is DATA on the drive so it CANNOT be new. This is CRAZY!