Western Digital WD5000AADS

Check for best offer Western Digital 500 GB Caviar Green SATA 3 Gb/s Intellipower 32 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive - WD5000AADS Western Digital 500 GB SATA OEM Desktop Hard Drive WD5000AADS (Caviar Green) A fine-tuned balance of spin speed, Western Digital WD5000AADS transfer rate and caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance. IntelliSeek - Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise, and vibration. ... More Details »

Western Digital WD5000AADS Review: Purchased two of these to use as a mirrored external backup drive. Performance, while nice, isn't critical to me (since it's all going through a USB2 interface anyway), but the noise level and power consumption is. After my Seagate drive died (they're not even worthy of a link to their product. Point is: don't buy SeaGate as their firmware likely is still riddled with bugs that they'll release an update for...after you've lost all your data.)At any rate, after formatting these drives and doing a series ... Read more »

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