• Reviews around performance (4.42 of 5)

    WD Blue 500GB Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM SATA 6 Gb/s 16MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD5000AAKX

    • Excellent product and performance
    • So far (three weeks) drive is quiet, runs at steady reasonable temps, and has good performance
    • and we get an amazing performance from it.
    • Ranked as the mid performance hard drive in the Caviar family (Green, Blue, Black,), this hard drive does a good job providing good value performance and hard disk storage
    • With the sata 3 including mobo, saw very nice performance increase
    • Great performance, great read/write speed
    • They tend to be very reliable and deliver good performance.
    • Excellent performance of this hard drive in our computer
    • Great value, appropriate performance
    • Performance seems solid so far, it only has 40GB of game data on it, but transferring over the games was painless and they launch perfectly
    • Good performance for the price
    • I realize some HD's are just lemons but you'd think a WD drive would give a better performance.
    • Ranked as the mid performance hard drive in the Caviar family (Green, Blue, Black,), this hard drive does a good job providing good value performance and hard disk storage
    • If you want a significant performance increase from your HDD you'll have to get a Solid State drive (or veloceraptor - though that wouldn't provide as much of an improvement and it would create so much more heat) or a RAID setup
    • These hard drives give good performance and are noted for their reliability for everyday computing
    • Used may different "brands" of hard drives over the years, and Western Digital has good performance characteristics, lasted longer and had fewer problems
    • Very good performance in my older desktop PC.
    • Nice easy drive for every day use in a typical home computer which doesn't rely heavily on high hard drive performance.
    • Great performance, great price, and was perfect for when I needed a fresh drive on a whim.
    • Reasonable performance, quiet, and moderate power consumption is exactly what I needed to fix a buddy's older computer
    • Works as it should right out of the packaging...though my only complaint is that the item was repackaged and was not stated in the description