• Reviews around performance (3.53 of 5)

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

    • Fine Performance - Works great in our Server
    • 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
    • With that said, this doesn’t bother me much (nor my Clients) as my preference is for optimal performance over optimal sound
    • 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
    • All of given flawless performance thus-far
    • Fine Performance - Works great in our Server
    • 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