WD2500AAJS Western, Very good
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Very good
It was easy to format and install Ubuntu 9.10 on this drive. It’s very fast and quiet. Picasa imported 49,000 photos at top speed. It’s currently storing 60 GiB with no errors.
The drive was healthy with no bad sectors. It passed the extended self test. All SMART data was in the green.
Packaging was a simple cardboard box, but it had folded cardboard spacers to center and hold the drive half an inch from the top and bottom, 1 inch from the sides, and 1.5 inches from the front and back. Amazon shipped it in a larger box with an air cushion. The drive had a well sealed anti static bag.
I’m very happy with the product. It made a good first impression. I’m using Ubuntu’s file encryption and everything still feels fast. It’s working well with a first generation SATA motherboard. I didn’t need to add any jumper. It appears to fly along at top system speed.
Update (2/6/2012): This item is currently on sale here for the lowest price I’ve seen. I also found some auctions for this item here.
The featured review for this product, Western Digital 250 GB Caviar Blue SATA 7200 RPM 8 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive WD2500AAJS Electronics, was written by 150 F3.
The average rating for this item is out of 5 stars, according to 3 reviews.
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Posted on: April 29, 2010
Filed under: Reviews
Reviews (3)
M. Arredondo
March 28th, 2010 at 6:54 pm
Great quality
I bought this drive to install and run an OS on, but i partitioned 50 gigs to the system and 200 for data storage. I’ve heard getting large hard drives for the operating system can couse it to slow down, but no problem here. First off it is very quiet, and runs very good. It’s always stayed pretty cool, as long as its being ventilated. The speedy 7200 RPM disk really helps on loading/saving files on your computer. There isn’t much to say since a hard drive only stores and loads files, pretty basic stuff. I’m definitly happy I purchased this product and looking foward to buying another one for my next build.
Timothy Liebe
April 2nd, 2010 at 6:59 am
It - Just Works
To date, there is not much about this drive other than it has not died on me a couple of weeks about how it works well. It is a hard drive - it does its work. End of story.
150 F3
April 6th, 2010 at 12:56 am
Very good
Rated 5 stars.
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