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WD 500GB RE Enterprise Hard Drive SATA III 7200 RPM 64 MB - WD5003ABYZ

Ideal for enterprise servers and storage, video surveillance, and other write-intensive applications, WD RE 7200 RPM Enterprise SATA hard drives offer up to 4 TB capacity, 64 MB cache, 4th generation vibration tolerance and 5-year limited warranty.

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Reliability

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Price

(3 reviews)
Hd

(1 reviews)
Program

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State

(1 reviews)
Spec

(2 reviews)
Choice

(2 reviews)
Boot s disk

(1 reviews)
Transfer

(2 reviews)
Temp

(1 reviews)
Speed

(6 reviews)
Performance

(7 reviews)
Drive

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Reviews around reliability (5.00 of 5)

  • If you open up most of the pre-packaged external hard drives, you will quickly see that most have the lower-end drives and these drives do not have the best speed nor do they have the best reliability
  • I bought the drive for greater reliability over the drives that dirty people buy, but I've never had a platter drive die so young.
  • the Re is surprisingly affordable and you will get to enjoy data transfer speeds and reliability that not many other drives can match
  • It offers very fast data transfer speeds for a hard disk drive (HDD) and it comes from a line known for fantastic durability & reliability

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Reviews around price (5.00 of 5)

  • Great drive - great price !
  • After all, you can find them everywhere for a pretty affordable price
  • Good price and excellent specs for this hardened server level drive

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Reviews around hd (5.00 of 5)

  • Works perfect, good stable HD for the data collection that it is being used for.

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Reviews around program (5.00 of 5)

  • Additionally, check the SMART data on your drive (with a free program like CrystalDiskInfo), in which you can see how many cycles the drive has been through, as well as how many power-on hours it has
  • I am sorry to say that this happens a lot more than you might expect…some of the Sellers who do this are even part of Amazon’s Fulfillment Program
  • I checked the drives using free online HDD health programs:

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Reviews around state (5.00 of 5)

  • After reading alot of reviews of Solid state drives I believe these drives are more reliable than the best current solid state drives.

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Reviews around spec (5.00 of 5)

  • While specifications can only say so much about reliability, they do serve as general guidelines and the Re has all the right specs one wants to see when searching for a very fast & reliable HDD.The speeds I am getting with this 500 GB Re (as well as the 250 GB) are FAST
  • Good price and excellent specs for this hardened server level drive

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Reviews around choice (5.00 of 5)

  • Despite being a capable choice for mission-critical applications, the Re is surprisingly affordable, making it a good choice for home & enterprise users alike
  • In the event something happens to one of the drives you are using to store the data, you are prepared with a secondary copy capable of providing your data, and you should rapidly replace the lost drive without delay.)So whether you are considering this for a main desktop drive, a secondary internal desktop drive, part of a RAID setup, part of a rack system on a server, or just for really reliable single-disk home backup, the Re is a solid choice (as is the older RE4.

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Reviews around boot s disk (5.00 of 5)

  • Super reliable and dependable, perfect for 24x7 duty cycle as a O/S boot disks or for RAID data storage volumes..

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Reviews around transfer (5.00 of 5)

  • It offers very fast data transfer speeds for a hard disk drive (HDD) and it comes from a line known for fantastic durability & reliability
  • The drive is fast, with noticeably greater transfer rates over my old drives.- Folks said the drive would be noisy, but I don't find that to be the case at all.

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Reviews around temp (5.00 of 5)

  • They are silent, cool temp drives, the programs measure their temperature.

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Reviews around speed (4.03 of 5)

  • (ideally the 3.0 Gbps revision, which is common.)Using a slower port like USB 2 or FireWire 800/400 will result in the connection throttling back the drive speed to only run as fast at the max speed of the connection will allow
  • While specifications can only say so much about reliability, they do serve as general guidelines and the Re has all the right specs one wants to see when searching for a very fast & reliable HDD.The speeds I am getting with this 500 GB Re (as well as the 250 GB) are FAST
  • the Re is surprisingly affordable and you will get to enjoy data transfer speeds and reliability that not many other drives can match
  • If you want to utilize the full read & write capability of this drive and you are using it as an external hard drive, you will need to use a high/super-speed port such as USB 3.0, Thunderbolt, or
  • The biggest additions to the Re over the RE4 are the size increase, the speed increase, and the improvement in the rating of non-recoverable read errors per bits read
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Reviews around performance (3.53 of 5)

  • With that said, this doesn’t bother me much (nor my Clients) as my preference is for optimal performance over optimal sound
  • Due to the prevalence of fake performance hard drives being sold on Amazon, as well as the frequent sale of used hard drives that were advertised as brand new, I strongly caution buyers to be certain they are purchasing from a reliable vendor with good feedback (and a solid return policy), and that they utilize the tools Western Digital provides to authenticate their product as being genuine and new (I will discuss this in further detail later.)I apologize in advance for the length of this review, but I enjoy talking about hard drives and there is a lot to talk about with the
  • I am getting sustained read and sustained write speeds exceeding 135 Megabytes per second, which is spectacular performance for a HDD and is actually faster than the advertised speed in the WD spec sheet
  • During the RE4’s run, Western Digital got a lot of business from people who swore by the RE4’s capabilities and used it for mission-critical applications in which poor hard drive performance or premature failure could come at a tremendous financial or human cost
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Reviews around drive (1.84 of 5)

  • The drive is fast, with noticeably greater transfer rates over my old drives.- Folks said the drive would be noisy, but I don't find that to be the case at all.
  • If that is what you are thinking of, I highly recommend it because you can purchase a much nicer enclosure and a much, much, much nicer hard drive for around the same price
  • If that is what you are thinking of, I highly recommend it because you can purchase a much nicer enclosure and a much, much, much nicer hard drive for around the same price
  • and I want to thoroughly defend my reasoning on why I think the Re is one of the finest hard drives made
  • This hard drive did the job in my dental scanner computer
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  • Ideal for enterprise servers and storage, video surveillance, and other write-intensive applications, WD RE 7200 RPM Enterprise SATA hard drives offer up to 4 TB capacity, 64 MB cache, 4th generation vibration tolerance and 5-year limited warranty.