Western Digital Caviar SE EIDE 120 GB Hard Drive user reviews

Pros Fast when works on October 28, 2004  | Read full review

Summary I have used Western Digital 40GB, 60GB, 80GB and 120GB drives in computers. I presently have a 120GB with a 80GB back up. The drives work well together. Hundreds of giga bytes of data has been passed between these drives as I have processed DVD videos of our family. All of my WD drives have performed well. The only reason I replaced them is my need for--More Storage!

Pros Lasted 2.5 years of very occassional use. on June 16, 2005 by noodle2  | Read full review

Summary Drive smart failed after 9 days of use (click, whirr...clunk - repeat). I lost all my data. I've got a new replacement, but I'm leery now. Logic tells me that it must be an isolated failure, but that doesn't seem to help.

Summary I was initially excited about this hard drive as it had decent reviews here @ Cnet. I also had heard a lot about this line of hard drives being very unreliable and prone to failure, but thought that i would purchase it anyway and see for myself. The first two weeks it worked fine, now I'm on 3rd week and for some reason it started to make noise and crash. I lost two weeks of work. The second HD I have is a WD also and it is starting to make some noise.

Summary Much quieter and faster than any other hard drives I have owned. I leave my computer on almost constantly and have never had any problems with this drive so far. The drive seems to be able to do more at once than my other drive with a 2MB buffer. The 8MB does make a definite performance increase especially when dealing with very large files.

Summary This drive out runs one of my other computers with a SCSI hardrive. Extremely fast and a nice amount of space.

Pros I can't think of any on December 7, 2005 by neever  | Read full review

Pros Some readers with negative coments about a HDD not being ideal for a particular OS are absolute nonsense - A HDD is a HDD !!! It makes no difference what OS is loaded or how one partitions the drive - PLEASE DON'T COMMENT IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DO on January 12, 2005  | Read full review

Pros I bought two of these drives and put them into a RAID0 (stripping) array in a new system in Nov 03. The system ran 24/7 giving excellent performance. Hurricane Ivan came and demolished my house in Sep 04 and the system sat in a plastic bag (to keep dry) f on December 9, 2004  | Read full review

Pros Extremely good value, got it on sale for $59.99 after rebates. Very happy! on October 14, 2004  | Read full review

Pros Terrific Value from a very reliable brand. Easy to setup and works fast. Runs quiet. on September 1, 2004  | Read full review

Pros Fast, large and cheap. on July 15, 2004  | Read full review

Pros It's been working fine for over two years with no problems. Installed and working fine on XP (single partition) on July 9, 2004  | Read full review

Pros easy hookup on April 25, 2004  | Read full review

Pros Comments refer actually to WD2000JB - the 200GB equivalent, which is not listed here. An OK performer for an OK price on April 14, 2004  | Read full review

Pros Bought it to replace my IBM, that was on it's last legs. Installation was a breeze with the software provided, and I am by no means a techie. It's in a P-3 Gateway running 300 megs, and it recognized the whole 120 Gigs. I have been renning it all week ins on March 6, 2004  | Read full review

Pros quick and very quiet. great price got it for $59.00 after the rebates from circuit city on March 2, 2004  | Read full review

Pros Excellent price on March 2, 2004  | Read full review